Heroes for the TruthPresbyterian Publication Committee, 1840 - 245 Seiten |
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... results . First , in regard to his own deportment , he was resolute in carrying out the purposes of his youth . So devoted was he that it is recorded he was " second to none after the apostles . " He slept on the ground with a stone for ...
... results . First , in regard to his own deportment , he was resolute in carrying out the purposes of his youth . So devoted was he that it is recorded he was " second to none after the apostles . " He slept on the ground with a stone for ...
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... result of one man's devotion , his earnestness and energy in his great life - work . Iona , in short , is fast be- coming " the light of the western world . " A speck , scarcely visible above the surface of the sea , is about to be made ...
... result of one man's devotion , his earnestness and energy in his great life - work . Iona , in short , is fast be- coming " the light of the western world . " A speck , scarcely visible above the surface of the sea , is about to be made ...
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... result , and no favorite occupation- neither his acquirements as a poet , nor his likings as a writer , were allowed to interfere with this mas- ter object of his life . " Give thyself wholly to these things , " was obeyed by Columba ...
... result , and no favorite occupation- neither his acquirements as a poet , nor his likings as a writer , were allowed to interfere with this mas- ter object of his life . " Give thyself wholly to these things , " was obeyed by Columba ...
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... result , Christian missionaries went forth to dif- fuse the light of heaven among the dark surrounding places . They not merely pervaded Scotland , but penetrated far into England ; and if we bear in mind the age , the hinderances and ...
... result , Christian missionaries went forth to dif- fuse the light of heaven among the dark surrounding places . They not merely pervaded Scotland , but penetrated far into England ; and if we bear in mind the age , the hinderances and ...
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... the energy of conviction in that man's soul wrought like a passion , and the result was a deathless name to Columba here , and heaven made sure to multitudes hereafter . We say that truth had the force of a passion 24 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
... the energy of conviction in that man's soul wrought like a passion , and the result was a deathless name to Columba here , and heaven made sure to multitudes hereafter . We say that truth had the force of a passion 24 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
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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.