Troy Conference Miscellany: Containing a Historical Sketch of Methodism Within the Bounds of the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with Reminiscences of Its Deceased, and Contributions by Its Living Ministers. With an AppendixJ. Lord, 1854 - 423 pages |
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... youth into the church , of whom a brief notice is here given . This youth was born in Dutchess county , N. Y. His mother was a Methodist , and used to take her boy with her to the class - meetings . On one occasion , after Father Abbott ...
... youth into the church , of whom a brief notice is here given . This youth was born in Dutchess county , N. Y. His mother was a Methodist , and used to take her boy with her to the class - meetings . On one occasion , after Father Abbott ...
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... youth became almost insupportable . At its close , special prayer was made in his behalf , and while the man of God and the pious cottagers bowed around him were engaged in earnest supplication , the sinner's friend spoke peace to his ...
... youth became almost insupportable . At its close , special prayer was made in his behalf , and while the man of God and the pious cottagers bowed around him were engaged in earnest supplication , the sinner's friend spoke peace to his ...
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... youth , little realized the chain of causes he was setting in motion , and the results that would grow out of them . He had gathered a chance jewel from among the cinders of the blacksmith's shop ; but little did he comprehend the ...
... youth , little realized the chain of causes he was setting in motion , and the results that would grow out of them . He had gathered a chance jewel from among the cinders of the blacksmith's shop ; but little did he comprehend the ...
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... youth . And then the prospect before him was by no means congenial to the feelings of a young man of a feeble constitution and a timid nature . An extensive circuit , embracing the roughest portions of Massachusetts , and spreading out ...
... youth . And then the prospect before him was by no means congenial to the feelings of a young man of a feeble constitution and a timid nature . An extensive circuit , embracing the roughest portions of Massachusetts , and spreading out ...
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... youth , directory of my manhood , and support of my declining years ; how cheerless would this world be , were it not for thy divine revelations and Christian experience ! " After his will had been signed , he said , Thank God , one ...
... youth , directory of my manhood , and support of my declining years ; how cheerless would this world be , were it not for thy divine revelations and Christian experience ! " After his will had been signed , he said , Thank God , one ...
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Page 335 - about with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire. And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace, and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Page 85 - Accordingly, at the ensuing conference—having been ordained elder—he was sent to Middlebury, Vermont. He commenced his ministry by discoursing from the text, " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." And this text he placed before himself as the rule or formula after which his ministrations were to be
Page 378 - unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 329 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared.
Page 360 - Israel, after those days, saith the Lord. / will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
Page 328 - life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 328 - my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep." " Greater love hath no man than this,
Page 371 - thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
Page 331 - ' For, consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners, against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Page xi - the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou