Twelve Sermons Delivered During the Session of the United States Convention of Universalists, in the City of New York, September 15th and 16th, 1853: Together with a Portrait of the Author of Each SermonJ. M. Usher, 1853 - 285 pages |
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Page 13
... object with- out rest or cessation , " until the righteousness thereof shall go forth as brightness , and the sal- vation thereof as a lamp that burneth . " We believe , my brethren , that we may say with safety , that our desires and ...
... object with- out rest or cessation , " until the righteousness thereof shall go forth as brightness , and the sal- vation thereof as a lamp that burneth . " We believe , my brethren , that we may say with safety , that our desires and ...
Page 14
... object . We meet as the representatives and members of a large and growing religious body , distinct from all other bodies , and allied only to each other and to God . We come together as a people , openly confessing the sin of ...
... object . We meet as the representatives and members of a large and growing religious body , distinct from all other bodies , and allied only to each other and to God . We come together as a people , openly confessing the sin of ...
Page 23
... object too dear to be damned that more or less of those ―― you love shall be lost that you cannot yourself fully conceive of your own exposures to the " profoundest hell . " Not content with rendering the cup of life " a cruel bitter ...
... object too dear to be damned that more or less of those ―― you love shall be lost that you cannot yourself fully conceive of your own exposures to the " profoundest hell . " Not content with rendering the cup of life " a cruel bitter ...
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... object and endeavor . II . It is our purpose , also , to aid in solving the problem whether Love , as a reforming principle , is sufficient and safe . Whether religion was designed mainly for this state or the next , it was in either ...
... object and endeavor . II . It is our purpose , also , to aid in solving the problem whether Love , as a reforming principle , is sufficient and safe . Whether religion was designed mainly for this state or the next , it was in either ...
Page 60
... object in any other way ? In what besides truth can the soul find salvation , life , and hope ? This agency of truth in the domain of mind and heart , corresponds with all the arrangements of the material world . In its various depart ...
... object in any other way ? In what besides truth can the soul find salvation , life , and hope ? This agency of truth in the domain of mind and heart , corresponds with all the arrangements of the material world . In its various depart ...
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Page 193 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 201 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Page 236 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 262 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Page 255 - We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth...
Page 56 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Page 132 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Page 113 - Still as they thirsted, SCOOp the brimming stream ; Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles, Wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as beseems Fair couple, linked in happy nuptial league, Alone as they. About them frisking played All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase In wood or wilderness, forest or den...
Page 260 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou...
Page 222 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.