The Christian Philanthropist: Or, Harbinger of the MillenniumPerkins & Marvin, 1839 - 394 pages |
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... never heard of . Hope is not with them . They are far off from happiness and peace . The journey of life is indeed to them a weary pilgrimage ; but tiresome as it is , there is no rest for them at last . The sorrows of life are numerous ...
... never heard of . Hope is not with them . They are far off from happiness and peace . The journey of life is indeed to them a weary pilgrimage ; but tiresome as it is , there is no rest for them at last . The sorrows of life are numerous ...
Page xxiii
... never reach the haven of truth . If we judge of the vigor of a man's mind by the subjects he contemplates , or the influence which he can exert over other minds , we find the superiority is with the Christian . The subjects before him ...
... never reach the haven of truth . If we judge of the vigor of a man's mind by the subjects he contemplates , or the influence which he can exert over other minds , we find the superiority is with the Christian . The subjects before him ...
Page xxvi
... never possessed before . When Christ's command was first given to his dis- ciples , they might have said , ' How can we obey it ? We are only twelve , or seventy , or at the most five hundred brethren . How can this handful of believers ...
... never possessed before . When Christ's command was first given to his dis- ciples , they might have said , ' How can we obey it ? We are only twelve , or seventy , or at the most five hundred brethren . How can this handful of believers ...
Page xxix
... never sets . All their dreams of ambition could not have reached the reality that now exists — in the direct power that we exercise over more than a hundred millions of heathen . Our commercial enterprize is also greater than it was in ...
... never sets . All their dreams of ambition could not have reached the reality that now exists — in the direct power that we exercise over more than a hundred millions of heathen . Our commercial enterprize is also greater than it was in ...
Page xxxi
... never furnish an excuse for plainly neglecting the sacred injunction , Go and preach the gospel to every creature . ' Our duty and responsibility remain the same , whatever may be the designs of Infinite Wisdom . To neglect an obvious ...
... never furnish an excuse for plainly neglecting the sacred injunction , Go and preach the gospel to every creature . ' Our duty and responsibility remain the same , whatever may be the designs of Infinite Wisdom . To neglect an obvious ...
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Page 255 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 322 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Page 304 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 213 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 208 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 318 - And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 140 - How that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 105 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you...
Page 265 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given Unto you ; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
Page 121 - And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures ; opening and alleging, " that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead ; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.