Favourite Christian BiographiesGall & Inglis, 1871 - 280 pages |
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ADOLPHE MONOD affected ANDREW FULLER apostle beautiful Bible BLACK-THROATED DIVER blessed Chalmers character Christian Church city of God course death delight devoted divine duties early earnest Edinburgh eloquent eminent entered eternal excellent faith father favourite feel felt Fuller God's Gospel grace happiness Havelock heard heart heaven Henry Havelock Henry Martyn History of Scotland holy hope impressions interest Jesus Christ labours Larbert letter light living Loch Loch Shin Lord Martyn ment mind ministry Monod moral mother native never night occasion PATRICK FRASER TYTLER peace piety pray prayer preached preacher pursuits racter religious remarkable ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE salvation Saviour Scotland Scriptures seemed sermon soon soul spirit things THOMAS CHALMERS thought tion Toller took trust truth Tytler unto visited walk WILLIAM ARCHER BUTLER Williams words writing
Popular passages
Page 46 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high.
Page 252 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 249 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 118 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 149 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 46 - GOD is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 211 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — " for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 58 - And it was forbidden them that they should utter ; neither was it given unto them power that they could utter the things which they saw and heard ; and whether they were in the body or out of the body...
Page 97 - ... concerned, it is, I trust, fully mortified : I have no desire other than to step back from my present place in the world, and not to rise to a higher. Still, there are works, which, with God's permission, I would do before the night cometh, — especially that great work, if I might be permitted to take part in it.
Page 61 - Eternal God! on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of Heaven must not penetrate !" — he asked, " Did I say penetrate, sir, when I preached it?"