 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...this field of Christian benevolence, in a sermon delivered on behalf of the American asylums — " I have seen the affecting spectacle of an immortal...intelligence, and sparkled with joy at the acquisition of a new idea. I have seen such a spirit — oh ! it was a melancholy sight — earnestly contemplate The... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...down this position ; that if it is our duty to instil divine truth into the minds of children as soon as they are able to receive it ; if we are bound by...speaking through an eye, whose piercing lustre beamed withSnteUigence and sparkled with joy at the acquisition of a single new idea : — I have seen such... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...seven years' familiar acquaintance with some of the most intelligent among them, has fully Ratified my mind, that, without instruction, they must inevitably...thought and feeling which mark the most exalted of our spetieo; inhabiting a body arrived to its age of full and blooming maturity ; speaking through an eye,... | |
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Christ to convey the glad news of salvation to every creature under heaven ; then we fail to obey this injunction, if we neglect to make His name known to the poor deaf and dumb. I have said that they are heathen. Truly they are so as it regards their... 