Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin: Pastor of Waldbach, in the Ban de la Roche |
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... , many of their instructions were consequently effaced from the minds of their little pupils , or , at least , the impression they had made at the time was in some degree obliterated . Great improvements were , nevertheless , PREFACE .
... , many of their instructions were consequently effaced from the minds of their little pupils , or , at least , the impression they had made at the time was in some degree obliterated . Great improvements were , nevertheless , PREFACE .
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... mind -Louisa Schepler becomes his housekeeper -- Letter from the latter - Letter , taken from a German Maga- zine , printed at Tubingen , containing an account of Oberlin and his family , in the year 1793 - Death of his eldest son ...
... mind -Louisa Schepler becomes his housekeeper -- Letter from the latter - Letter , taken from a German Maga- zine , printed at Tubingen , containing an account of Oberlin and his family , in the year 1793 - Death of his eldest son ...
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... mind less ardent and less energetic than his own . The following anecdote will convey some idea of the state of the parish on his first arrival there . Desiring to be shown the principal school house , he was conducted into a miserable ...
... mind less ardent and less energetic than his own . The following anecdote will convey some idea of the state of the parish on his first arrival there . Desiring to be shown the principal school house , he was conducted into a miserable ...
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... minds to a knowledge of the happiness enjoyed by the people of God , and the means of attaining that happiness ; and to convince them that , notwithstanding the poverty of their external circumstances , the Almighty would protect and ...
... minds to a knowledge of the happiness enjoyed by the people of God , and the means of attaining that happiness ; and to convince them that , notwithstanding the poverty of their external circumstances , the Almighty would protect and ...
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... mind strongly felt the importance of such a field of labour ; it was a sufficient inducement for him to undertake its duties that others disdained them , and the very misery and moral degradation which had to be remedied , rendered it ...
... mind strongly felt the importance of such a field of labour ; it was a sufficient inducement for him to undertake its duties that others disdained them , and the very misery and moral degradation which had to be remedied , rendered it ...
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Page 152 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 273 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
Page 153 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 97 - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Page 233 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 155 - And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Page 155 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the Lord your God.
Page 152 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
Page 326 - This day do I, with the utmost solemnity, surrender myself to thee. I renounce all former lords that have had dominion over me ; and I consecrate to thee all that I am, and all that I have, — the faculties of my mind, the members of my body, my worldly possessions, my time...
Page 298 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.