 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1898 - 586 pages
...Massachusetts was independent and Con1 Stoughton, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts (1692-1701), said, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." gregational. Each congregation formed a settlement, and each settlement constituted a township and... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1898 - 462 pages
...higher and stancher characters. No wonder that one of their early preachers declared that " God gifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." The character and scholarship of its founders made New England the most intellectual of all the Colonies;... | |
 | John Wesley Freese - 1898 - 168 pages
...CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS AND NEAR-BY TOWNS BY JW FREESE PRINCIPAL OF THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGR 1 Cod sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness ' BOSTON, USA, AND LONDON GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1898 COPYRIGHT, 1897 liv JOHN W. FREESE PREFACE.... | |
 | Alma Holman Burton - 1898 - 332 pages
...one hundred and two brave men and women and children set their faces toward the sea. Some one said that God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choice grain into the wilderness, and I think you will agree with this saying when you know what these people accomplished... | |
 | Charles Lyman Newhall - 1899 - 258 pages
...in public station, than is known of Thomas Sherman of Yaxley and his sons. In the next century when "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness," it is known that fourteen men and women of this man's seed came to New England. Two of the fourteen... | |
 | Lewis Wilder Hicks - 1899 - 68 pages
...never be too grateful to Almighty God that in His plans for the settlement of this part of America " He sifted a whole nation, that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness," as William Stoughton put it in 1669. We can never be adequately thankful for the providence which turned... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 266 pages
...If the Puritan exodus is viewed the F"mar with the eyes of the Hon. William Stoughton, who asserted that " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness," there was little left for the Primer to do. This however is a public speaker's... | |
 | Daniel Dulany Addison - 1900 - 424 pages
...healing Plaster," and looked upon the new land of America as a place planted with the seed for which " God sifted a whole nation that he might send Choice Grain over into this wilderness." The preachers, nevertheless, discerned the evils of the age and poured forth upon them the mingled fury... | |
 | Daniel Dulany Addison - 1900 - 426 pages
...healing Plaster," and looked upon the new land of America as a place planted with the seed for which " God sifted a whole nation that he might send Choice Grain over into this wilderness." The preachers, nevertheless, discerned the evils of the age and poured forth upon them the mingled fury... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - 328 pages
...forth. 11. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. 12. God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. 14. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I... | |
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