Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism: A Brief Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Wesleyan Methodist Societies Throughout the World |
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Page 34
... visited the sick , and the prisoners in the common jail , for whom no other men seemed to care ; they attended secret prayer , public worship , and the Lord's table , with scrupulous exactness ; they ob- served the regular fasts of the ...
... visited the sick , and the prisoners in the common jail , for whom no other men seemed to care ; they attended secret prayer , public worship , and the Lord's table , with scrupulous exactness ; they ob- served the regular fasts of the ...
Page 38
... visiting a murderer under sentence of death . The following lines from the poem just mentioned present a beautiful picture of his early piety , and of the spirit of the Oxford Methodists : " WISE in his prime , he waited not for noon ...
... visiting a murderer under sentence of death . The following lines from the poem just mentioned present a beautiful picture of his early piety , and of the spirit of the Oxford Methodists : " WISE in his prime , he waited not for noon ...
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... visited the people daily from house to house ; and he catechised the children in the school every Saturday afternoon . The following is his own account of his labours on the Sabbath in the latter part of his residence at Savannah ...
... visited the people daily from house to house ; and he catechised the children in the school every Saturday afternoon . The following is his own account of his labours on the Sabbath in the latter part of his residence at Savannah ...
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... visited by Böhler . " I asked him , " says Mr. Charles Wesley , " to pray for me . He seemed unwilling at first ; but beginning faintly , he raised his voice by degrees , and prayed for my recovery with strange confidence . Then he took ...
... visited by Böhler . " I asked him , " says Mr. Charles Wesley , " to pray for me . He seemed unwilling at first ; but beginning faintly , he raised his voice by degrees , and prayed for my recovery with strange confidence . Then he took ...
Page 61
... visited him , and sang a hymn suited to the day . When they had left him he betook him- self to prayer . Soon afterwards one of his religi- ous acquaintance said to him , in a very impressive * Whitehead's Lives of John and Charles ...
... visited him , and sang a hymn suited to the day . When they had left him he betook him- self to prayer . Soon afterwards one of his religi- ous acquaintance said to him , in a very impressive * Whitehead's Lives of John and Charles ...
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