The Moral Statistics of Glasgow in 1863, Practically AppliedPorteous & Hislop, 1864 - 392 pages |
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... minister is unwilling to introduce the subject ; in others , the majority of the session and members are displeased at their pastor's frequent warnings and entreaties . Very often abstainers blame ministers alone for indifference or ...
... minister is unwilling to introduce the subject ; in others , the majority of the session and members are displeased at their pastor's frequent warnings and entreaties . Very often abstainers blame ministers alone for indifference or ...
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... minister very seldom obtain . It is not the first hundred times we have been told by the working classes , that the missionary is a missionary for his pay ; but such charge was never made against the Sabbath school teacher . We believe ...
... minister very seldom obtain . It is not the first hundred times we have been told by the working classes , that the missionary is a missionary for his pay ; but such charge was never made against the Sabbath school teacher . We believe ...
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... ministers and missionaries in Glasgow put together are fewer than 280 , the number of Sabbath school teachers is 5985 . We undervalue not the labours of the minister or missionary , for they are of God's appointment , and are ...
... ministers and missionaries in Glasgow put together are fewer than 280 , the number of Sabbath school teachers is 5985 . We undervalue not the labours of the minister or missionary , for they are of God's appointment , and are ...
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... minister had urged his hearers , with all possible earnestness , to contribute to so worthy a cause . The collection was made , and amounted to £ 2 11s ! or about one penny a head ; and no doubt even that penny was given with greater ...
... minister had urged his hearers , with all possible earnestness , to contribute to so worthy a cause . The collection was made , and amounted to £ 2 11s ! or about one penny a head ; and no doubt even that penny was given with greater ...
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... ministers , £ 389 17s 4d ; for college building fund , £ 163 2s ; in all , £ 22,926 3s 9d , being £ 521 from each . From the Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church for June , 1863 , we ascertain that there are in ...
... ministers , £ 389 17s 4d ; for college building fund , £ 163 2s ; in all , £ 22,926 3s 9d , being £ 521 from each . From the Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church for June , 1863 , we ascertain that there are in ...
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Page 166 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 315 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Page 366 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 291 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Page 318 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word : It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 308 - If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Page 18 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 288 - And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Page 289 - Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't; and so he goes to heaven; And so am I reveng'd. that would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.
Page 241 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.