Life and Remains: Letters, Lectures and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, DundeeRobert Carter, 1848 - 556 pages |
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... Christian character ; but his susceptible mind had not , at that time , a relish for any higher joy than the refined gaieties of society , and for such plea- sures as the song and the dance could yield . He himself re- garded these as ...
... Christian character ; but his susceptible mind had not , at that time , a relish for any higher joy than the refined gaieties of society , and for such plea- sures as the song and the dance could yield . He himself re- garded these as ...
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... Christians of Bithynia . Professor Jameson on quartz . Dr. Chalmers grappling with Hume's arguments . Evening ... Christianity appear beside such a sun ! But even his was a borrowed light , and the same source is still open to enlighten ...
... Christians of Bithynia . Professor Jameson on quartz . Dr. Chalmers grappling with Hume's arguments . Evening ... Christianity appear beside such a sun ! But even his was a borrowed light , and the same source is still open to enlighten ...
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... Christian friend , and sealed more and more my amity with another - I bless him for that . " January 27 , 1833. - On this day it had been the custom of his brother David to write a " Carmen Natale " on their father's birth- day . Robert ...
... Christian friend , and sealed more and more my amity with another - I bless him for that . " January 27 , 1833. - On this day it had been the custom of his brother David to write a " Carmen Natale " on their father's birth- day . Robert ...
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... Christian imitate the anxieties of the worldling ? " April 17. - He heard of the death of one whom many friends had esteemed much and lamented deeply . This led him to touch the strings of his harp again , in a measure somewhat ...
... Christian imitate the anxieties of the worldling ? " April 17. - He heard of the death of one whom many friends had esteemed much and lamented deeply . This led him to touch the strings of his harp again , in a measure somewhat ...
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... Christian sympathy ! What imbedded masses of human beings are huddled together , unvisited by friend or minister ! No man careth for our souls , ' is written over every forehead . Awake , my soul ! Why should I give hours and days any ...
... Christian sympathy ! What imbedded masses of human beings are huddled together , unvisited by friend or minister ! No man careth for our souls , ' is written over every forehead . Awake , my soul ! Why should I give hours and days any ...
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Page 155 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 246 - I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 406 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Page 233 - O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 165 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 419 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 385 - Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 154 - But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel...
Page 373 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you. Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 155 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD : And he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : For the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.