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... fact , that on my return from the Mediterranean , I learned , with pain , that the spirit of revival had greatly declined in the United States , and that a spirit of jangling and controversy alarmingly prevailed . The peculiar ...
... fact , that on my return from the Mediterranean , I learned , with pain , that the spirit of revival had greatly declined in the United States , and that a spirit of jangling and controversy alarmingly prevailed . The peculiar ...
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... fact . It is altogether improbable that religion will ever make progress among heathen nations except through the influence of revivals . The attempt is now making to do it by education , and other cautious and gradual improvements ...
... fact . It is altogether improbable that religion will ever make progress among heathen nations except through the influence of revivals . The attempt is now making to do it by education , and other cautious and gradual improvements ...
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... fact under the government of God , worthy of universal notice , and of everlasting remembrance ; which is , that the most useful and important things are most easily and certainly obtained by the use of the appropriate means . This is ...
... fact under the government of God , worthy of universal notice , and of everlasting remembrance ; which is , that the most useful and important things are most easily and certainly obtained by the use of the appropriate means . This is ...
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... fact ; and I fully believe that could facts be known , it would be found that when the ap- pointed means have been rightly used , spiritual blessings have been obtained with greater uniformity than temporal ones . II . 1 AM TO SHOW WHAT ...
... fact ; and I fully believe that could facts be known , it would be found that when the ap- pointed means have been rightly used , spiritual blessings have been obtained with greater uniformity than temporal ones . II . 1 AM TO SHOW WHAT ...
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... fact in relation to one of these pastors , who supposed revivals might come about once in five years . There had been a revival in his congregation . The next year , there was a revival in a neighboring town , and he went there to ...
... fact in relation to one of these pastors , who supposed revivals might come about once in five years . There had been a revival in his congregation . The next year , there was a revival in a neighboring town , and he went there to ...
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Page 422 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 287 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 325 - And all that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. And when they saw Him they were amazed : and His mother said unto Him, Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us ? behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.
Page 85 - Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 81 - Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.
Page 46 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought ; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession, for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 65 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 19 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page 79 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...
Page 230 - And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, and brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.