Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform |
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... seemed determined on a head- long course to ruin . At last the mother , in her desperation , caught the idea that if she could per- suade the Premier to take him in hand , perhaps the prodigal might be reclaimed . " Screwing her courage ...
... seemed determined on a head- long course to ruin . At last the mother , in her desperation , caught the idea that if she could per- suade the Premier to take him in hand , perhaps the prodigal might be reclaimed . " Screwing her courage ...
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... seemed utterly to have fled . There beneath his pillow lay the casket containing the sapphire , doubly locked and sealed . The merchant , treading softly in the sick man's chamber , and speaking gently , told his father that he had ...
... seemed utterly to have fled . There beneath his pillow lay the casket containing the sapphire , doubly locked and sealed . The merchant , treading softly in the sick man's chamber , and speaking gently , told his father that he had ...
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... seemed deaf , her soul dead to the Gospel message ; Rowland , " hold the Ten Commandments to be a no look of intelligence brightened her face ; and at rule of life to Christians ? " " Certainly not , " re - length , wearied out , the ...
... seemed deaf , her soul dead to the Gospel message ; Rowland , " hold the Ten Commandments to be a no look of intelligence brightened her face ; and at rule of life to Christians ? " " Certainly not , " re - length , wearied out , the ...
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... seemed to me perfect . I was warmed inside and out , and for the time was lost in rapture . I had heard of the individual and voice before ; but hearing it in this dreary situation made it doubly grateful . Never did I preach with more ...
... seemed to me perfect . I was warmed inside and out , and for the time was lost in rapture . I had heard of the individual and voice before ; but hearing it in this dreary situation made it doubly grateful . Never did I preach with more ...
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... seemed to him that " salvation had come to his house . " But Wesley advanced to his third head , which was , " Give all you can . " " Ay dear , ay dear , " said the farmer ; " he has gone and spoilt it all . " There was now no further ...
... seemed to him that " salvation had come to his house . " But Wesley advanced to his third head , which was , " Give all you can . " " Ay dear , ay dear , " said the farmer ; " he has gone and spoilt it all . " There was now no further ...
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Popular passages
Page 343 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Page 351 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 349 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 7 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 260 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way : but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Page 58 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 47 - Not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 306 - JUST as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God ! I come...
Page 70 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 357 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.