The Convert; Or, Leaves from My ExperienceE. Dunigan & Brother, 1857 - 450 pages |
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Page 295 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 218 - not resist evil,'' but causes us rather, when smitten " on the right cheek, to turn the other also;" — of that mercifulness, whereby we " love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them' that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use us and persecute us ;" — and of that complication of love and all holy tempers which is exercised in suffering for righteousness
Page 217 - The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind ; to set at liberty them that are bound, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord ;
Page 99 - Take no thought what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed. For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 144 - I had already been set apart to the work of the ministry by the laying on of the hands of a Protestant presbytery, I stood as legitimately in the pulpit as any Protestant minister does or can.
Page 70 - Universalists held that vengeance, or vindictive punishment, designed to honor a broken law and vindicate an offended majesty, is incompatible with the nature of a God who is love. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. The nature of love is to make the object beloved happy as far as in its power. God is love, his wisdom and power are unlimited. He loves all his creatures ; he can make them all happy, and therefore will. He can punish no one in his wrath ; he can only chastise us for our profit, "...
Page xii - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Page 82 - The catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, which of course is applicable mainly to God as seen in his works.
Page 230 - He came to the soul enslaved, "cabined, cribbed, confined," to the poor child of mortality, bound hand and foot, unable to move, and said in the tones of a God, " Be free ; be enlarged ; be there room for thee to grow, expand, and overflow with the love thou wast made to overflow with.
Page 250 - ... demand of their incumbents the least amount of actual labor either mental or manual. And this is in perfect harmony with the whole system of repartition of the fruits of industry which obtains in every department of society. Now here is the system which prevails, and here is its result. The whole class of simple laborers are poor and in general unable to procure any thing beyond the bare necessaries of life.