Teachings of experience; or, Lessons I have learned on my way through life. Author's edE.W. Allen, 1885 - 300 pages |
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... meetings for mutual improvement in religious knowledge . At each meeting an essay was read , on some subject agreed upon at a former meeting , and after the essay had been read we discussed the merits both of the sentiments it embodied ...
... meetings for mutual improvement in religious knowledge . At each meeting an essay was read , on some subject agreed upon at a former meeting , and after the essay had been read we discussed the merits both of the sentiments it embodied ...
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... meetings . I was badly requited for my pains . In some cases my colleagues listened to me and stared at me with amazement . They thought I " brought strange things to their ears . " One who is now dead , said I should be really an ...
... meetings . I was badly requited for my pains . In some cases my colleagues listened to me and stared at me with amazement . They thought I " brought strange things to their ears . " One who is now dead , said I should be really an ...
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... meeting . The result was often unpleasant . My brethren generally did not like to be disturbed in their notions , or in their way of talking . But few , if any of them , were prepared or disposed to enter on the investi- gations ...
... meeting . The result was often unpleasant . My brethren generally did not like to be disturbed in their notions , or in their way of talking . But few , if any of them , were prepared or disposed to enter on the investi- gations ...
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... meeting . It was the custom at those meetings for the superintendent preacher to read over the names of the local preachers , and to request any brother who knew of any breach of rule by any of his brethren , to name the matter . When ...
... meeting . It was the custom at those meetings for the superintendent preacher to read over the names of the local preachers , and to request any brother who knew of any breach of rule by any of his brethren , to name the matter . When ...
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... meetings in each place once a quarter , and at these meetings I used to refer to what I thought amiss in the conduct of professors , and to urge attention to such lessons of Christ and His Apostles as seemed to be generally overlooked ...
... meetings in each place once a quarter , and at these meetings I used to refer to what I thought amiss in the conduct of professors , and to urge attention to such lessons of Christ and His Apostles as seemed to be generally overlooked ...
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Page 207 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 211 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Page 253 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 32 - Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price ; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 285 - It was my guide, my light, my all, it bade my dark forebodings cease ; and through the storm and danger's thrall it led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored — my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, for ever and for evermore, the Star— The Star of Bethlehem...
Page 71 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods carne, and the winds blew and beat opon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 241 - In suffering be Thy love my peace, In weakness be Thy love my power ; And when the storms of life shall cease, Jesus, in that important hour, In death as life be Thou my Guide, And save me, who for me hast died ! 235 7,8,7.
Page 110 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 31 - will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life ; but unto them who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish...
Page 103 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...