Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1860 |
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... less than I expected . All our down - stairs pews are sold , but there are seats offered to let . Gallery - pews are not sought . I have not visited lest I should seem to be canvassing ; the name has not been given to me , as among our ...
... less than I expected . All our down - stairs pews are sold , but there are seats offered to let . Gallery - pews are not sought . I have not visited lest I should seem to be canvassing ; the name has not been given to me , as among our ...
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... less , than they once did , for prayer - meetings , missions , & c . Keep your eye on this . How much we need to stick by the plain declarations of the written word ! Reading McCheyne makes me feel how defective we ministers are , in ...
... less , than they once did , for prayer - meetings , missions , & c . Keep your eye on this . How much we need to stick by the plain declarations of the written word ! Reading McCheyne makes me feel how defective we ministers are , in ...
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... less liable to the charge of cant , has never produced as desirable fruit . And we must not take as our model the way which pleases such as are , by the suppo- sition , uninstructed . We must interpose some long words in the child's ...
... less liable to the charge of cant , has never produced as desirable fruit . And we must not take as our model the way which pleases such as are , by the suppo- sition , uninstructed . We must interpose some long words in the child's ...
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... less morbid , or more clear of sight . Her conscience and intrepidity exceeded all I ever read in books . I do not believe the human being lived to whom she durst not speak her mind . Her beneficence , for sixty years , has been , so ...
... less morbid , or more clear of sight . Her conscience and intrepidity exceeded all I ever read in books . I do not believe the human being lived to whom she durst not speak her mind . Her beneficence , for sixty years , has been , so ...
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... less , tender , and sympathizing . Yet I have to add this remark- able fact : during all her life , she knew nothing of comfortable frames . She was always panic - struck , in view of the standard she had set up ; and so she judged ...
... less , tender , and sympathizing . Yet I have to add this remark- able fact : during all her life , she knew nothing of comfortable frames . She was always panic - struck , in view of the standard she had set up ; and so she judged ...
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Page 306 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 61 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 264 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
Page 307 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 307 - A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity...
Page 335 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Page 54 - I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear, that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable...
Page 193 - Ghost'. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized ? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, That they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 295 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 297 - Forsake me not, my God ! Uphold me in my going, That evermore I may Please thee in all well-doing ; And that thy will...