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As a help in this difficult undertaking , it has often been recommended to anxious and earnest persons to direct their especial vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen ...
As a help in this difficult undertaking , it has often been recommended to anxious and earnest persons to direct their especial vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen ...
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ONE of the most difficult lessons to be learnt through the discipline of life , is that of obedience . Whether that which is required of us be submission to the will of God himself , or to those who are placed by Him in authority over ...
ONE of the most difficult lessons to be learnt through the discipline of life , is that of obedience . Whether that which is required of us be submission to the will of God himself , or to those who are placed by Him in authority over ...
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Is the difficult lesson to be learned through suffering from the hand of man as well as from the hand of God ? - It must be so , or it never will be learned at all . This assertion is quite distinct from a * 1 Samuel , iii . 18 .
Is the difficult lesson to be learned through suffering from the hand of man as well as from the hand of God ? - It must be so , or it never will be learned at all . This assertion is quite distinct from a * 1 Samuel , iii . 18 .
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Those who walk steadily and con- scientiously in the path of ordinary obe- dience have good reason to hope that they will be spared the ordeal of such difficult positions ; and if they should ever be called to them , the best ...
Those who walk steadily and con- scientiously in the path of ordinary obe- dience have good reason to hope that they will be spared the ordeal of such difficult positions ; and if they should ever be called to them , the best ...
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How much more difficult some unpalatable act of obedience will be to you because you fancy you detect in the command , motives of selfishness , of unkindness , almost of tyranny , at least of a vain display of authority to the total ...
How much more difficult some unpalatable act of obedience will be to you because you fancy you detect in the command , motives of selfishness , of unkindness , almost of tyranny , at least of a vain display of authority to the total ...
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.