Pulpit Portraits: Or, Pen-pictures of Distinguished American Divines, with Sketches of Congregations and Choirs, and Incidental Notes of Eminent British PreachersTappan and Whittemore, 1854 - 256 من الصفحات |
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... imagination was almost al- ways morbidly tinged ; but the few who knew him best , and loved him most , agree in declaring that no man pos- sessed more generous sympathies , or kindlier impulses . Mr. Foster seldom preached in Bristol ...
... imagination was almost al- ways morbidly tinged ; but the few who knew him best , and loved him most , agree in declaring that no man pos- sessed more generous sympathies , or kindlier impulses . Mr. Foster seldom preached in Bristol ...
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... because such a change will enable me to introduce some of those " accessories " of which I spoke in the commencement of my last chapter . Let the reader , then , in imagination , transport himself 32 PULPIT PORTRAITS : OR ,
... because such a change will enable me to introduce some of those " accessories " of which I spoke in the commencement of my last chapter . Let the reader , then , in imagination , transport himself 32 PULPIT PORTRAITS : OR ,
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... imagination , transport himself to Rhode Island State ; for in its commercial emporium , Providence , we shall have a fair opportunity of witness- ing a great annual gathering of the " cloth , " and amongst the host of reverend visitors ...
... imagination , transport himself to Rhode Island State ; for in its commercial emporium , Providence , we shall have a fair opportunity of witness- ing a great annual gathering of the " cloth , " and amongst the host of reverend visitors ...
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... imagining that she was the abject alluded to , chimed pleasantly in with — Ah , my dear ! but what would you say if I had my new shot silk dress on ? " And so , although as a mere dropper in to Mr. Stow's church , I was most politely ...
... imagining that she was the abject alluded to , chimed pleasantly in with — Ah , my dear ! but what would you say if I had my new shot silk dress on ? " And so , although as a mere dropper in to Mr. Stow's church , I was most politely ...
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... imagination ; the stairs were in the end porches we entered at the front door- it was an old fashioned house . The next wonderment was the big sounding - board , suspended not quite so flimsily as was the sword of Damocles , but by a ...
... imagination ; the stairs were in the end porches we entered at the front door- it was an old fashioned house . The next wonderment was the big sounding - board , suspended not quite so flimsily as was the sword of Damocles , but by a ...
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adorned ancient attractive Baptist Noel beautiful beneath Bethune Boston Bristol Chapel CHAPTER character charm choir Christian commences congregation Copp's Hill crowd discourse divine Edward Beecher eloquence EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING eyes face fancy Father Taylor feel forehead gallery gentle gentleman glory graceful grave hair hand head hear heard hearers heart Henry Ward Beecher Hugh McNeile humor hymn James Sherman Jeremy Taylor labor ladies Lant Carpenter listen look Lyman Lyman Beecher matter McNeile mind minister never once orator Park street church Parker pastor perhaps personal appearance pews piety platform popular prayer preacher preaching pulpit reader remarkable reverend ROBERT NEWTON Rowland Hill Sabbath scarcely seat seemed seldom sermon sketch speak stands style Sunday temple Theodore Parker things thought tion tones truth utter venerable voice Ward Beecher whilst words worship writer young
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الصفحة 242 - O Land ! O Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ;
الصفحة 16 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
الصفحة 245 - And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
الصفحة 242 - INTO the Silent Land! Ah ! who shall lead us thither? Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather, And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. Who leads us with a gentle hand Thither, O thither, Into the Silent Land?
الصفحة 141 - God. I do not believe there ever was a miracle, or ever will be : everywhere I find law, — the constant mode of operation of the infinite God. I do not believe in the miraculous inspiration of the Old Testament or the New Testament. I do not believe that the Old Testament was God's first word, nor the New Testament his last.
الصفحة 175 - Thomas Bodley, in imitation of Alexander, at his departure brake out into that noble speech, If I were not a king, I would be a university man...
الصفحة 176 - If I were not a king, I would be a University man: and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library, and to be chained together with so many good authors, et mortuis magistris.
الصفحة 141 - He is my best historic ideal of human greatness ; not without errors, not without the stain of his times, and, I presume, of course not without sins, — for men without sins exist in the dreams of girls, not in real fact; you never saw such a one, nor I, and we never shall.
الصفحة 146 - the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint ; from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores.
الصفحة 16 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.