Recollections of the Past

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Published for the author at the Conference office, 1848 - 147 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 56 - Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Sayfa 107 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Sayfa 123 - Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but to suffer for His sake.
Sayfa 35 - The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Sayfa 57 - Jeremiah did, because of the reproach and derision he met with daily, "and all his familiar friends watched for his halting," to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Sayfa 137 - But believing that by submitting it, under God, to the authorities of the Church, we should be more safe than in choosing for ourselves, we went cheerfully to the fields assigned us. But now I was brought into a strait: for though I had previously felt, in some degree, the responsibilities of a Christian minister and pastor, yet this was little in my estimation when compared with the charge of a district. I therefore remonstrated, argued, and entreated, day after day, while the conference was proceeding...
Sayfa 121 - Methodist preachers have been abused there," alluding to the case of Ebenezer White, who once attempted to preach in Millford, and was abused by a mob.
Sayfa 119 - There will be preaching in such a place on such an evening, which is but two or three miles from your house, and I ask you as a friend to go, and at least for once hear a sermon.
Sayfa 117 - The thunder-storm at this season of the year added to the solemnity of the meeting, so that all idea of closing it was given up for the present, and cries and tears, and prayers and praise, were mingled together without intermission for several...
Sayfa 121 - The preacher was entirely ignorant of the circumstances above narrated, but felt, in a rather unusual degree, the importance of his work, and endeavored to describe the wretched state of man by nature, his need of the mercy of God, and how that mercy could be exercised through Christ, and only through him.

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