Heroes for the TruthPresbyterian Publication Committee, 1840 - 245 Seiten |
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... friend of truth -this man as prompt and decisive in action , as he was holy and grand in his aims . While still a boy , Columba obtained from one of his teachers the name of saint , and his youthful de- cision appears to have been ...
... friend of truth -this man as prompt and decisive in action , as he was holy and grand in his aims . While still a boy , Columba obtained from one of his teachers the name of saint , and his youthful de- cision appears to have been ...
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... friends , whose names are carefully preserved along with his own , found some of the Druids still existing there , and those fierce islanders employed both art and menace to prevent him from settling in Iona - soon to be- come I - colm ...
... friends , whose names are carefully preserved along with his own , found some of the Druids still existing there , and those fierce islanders employed both art and menace to prevent him from settling in Iona - soon to be- come I - colm ...
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... friends , or when parting with them , every deed was consecrated by devotion . When he gave counsel to those who asked it , he never omitted what alone could render his advice really profitable , -namely , prayer to the Great Wis- dom ...
... friends , or when parting with them , every deed was consecrated by devotion . When he gave counsel to those who asked it , he never omitted what alone could render his advice really profitable , -namely , prayer to the Great Wis- dom ...
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... friends of truth . He will have much to do and much to endure , -his patron will become his persecutor , and his friends will cast him out , -if he is to assail the corruptions of the year 1400. But Huss was not the man to be damped by ...
... friends of truth . He will have much to do and much to endure , -his patron will become his persecutor , and his friends will cast him out , -if he is to assail the corruptions of the year 1400. But Huss was not the man to be damped by ...
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... re- volt from an oppression which was both dark and grinding . But intrepid as he was , Huss needed all his in- trepidity . One of his friends was first thrown into - prison , and then banished for his boldness ; 34 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
... re- volt from an oppression which was both dark and grinding . But intrepid as he was , Huss needed all his in- trepidity . One of his friends was first thrown into - prison , and then banished for his boldness ; 34 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
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amid appeared ardor assailed became began Bengalee BERNARD PALISSY Bible Bishop blessed Buchanan burned calm Carey Carey's cause Christ Christian Church Claudius Buchanan Cochlæus Columba dark death decision devoted devotedness difficulties earnest efforts Egede Egede's employed enamel enemies energy England example faith felt firm friends furnace Gloucester God's Governor-General of India Greenland Hans Egede heart heaven hope hostility humble hundred Huss India indomitable influence intrepid Iona JOHN Huss JOSHUA MARSHMAN king king of Denmark knew labor land learned life-work light live Lord Lord Minto Lord Wellesley man's martyr ment mind mission missionaries moral native never noble once Palissy's peril persecution persecutors persistency preach pressed prison Raikes religion resolute result Robert Raikes Rome Saviour Scriptures Serampore soon sorrows soul spirit spite spread success superstition Testament things thousand tion toil translation trials triumph truth Tyndale's whole William Carey William Tyndale word youth zeal
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Seite 147 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Seite 110 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Seite 65 - ... pernicious books, detest them, abhor them, keep them not in your hands, deliver them to the superiors, such as call for them ; and if, by reading of them heretofore, any thing...
Seite 106 - ... his handful of clay ; though his living groups, his crawling reptiles, his 'slimy snails, his slippery frogs, his lively lizards, and his damp herbs and dripping mosses had never adorned those dishes...
Seite 60 - Some man will ask, peradventure, Why I take the labour to make this work, inasmuch as they will burn it, seeing they burnt the Gospel? I answer, In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for ; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God's will it shall so be.
Seite 54 - I had no man to counterfeit, neither was helped with English of any that had interpreted the same or such like thing in the scripture beforetime.
Seite 53 - if it would stand with the king's most gracious pleasure, to grant only a bare text of the scriptures to be put forth among his people...
Seite 54 - ... to affirm that good is the natural cause of evil, and darkness to proceed out of light, and that lying should be grounded in truth and verity ; and not rather clean contrary, that light destroyeth darkness, and verity reproveth all manner of lying.
Seite 147 - Thou gav'st me milk and sweetnesses ; I had my wish and way : My days were strewed with flowers and happiness : There was no month but May.