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... ; how to deny our- selves ; how to feel God's presence about and over us ; how to war against sin and evil ; how to perform the various duties of our sta- tions for which we shall on that day be called 12 IN ADVENT .
... ; how to deny our- selves ; how to feel God's presence about and over us ; how to war against sin and evil ; how to perform the various duties of our sta- tions for which we shall on that day be called 12 IN ADVENT .
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... feel at that dread moment all the sinfulness of my then acts ; in other words , unless I could put myself into the very circumstances which then sur- rounded me , how could I give account of , how could I render in myself a true verdict ...
... feel at that dread moment all the sinfulness of my then acts ; in other words , unless I could put myself into the very circumstances which then sur- rounded me , how could I give account of , how could I render in myself a true verdict ...
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... feel to them as obstacles to our self - esteem , in order to know and feel fully , that both we and they have our true meed at the hands of the Great Dispenser of all men's doom . If , as we know , in that day the first shall be last ...
... feel to them as obstacles to our self - esteem , in order to know and feel fully , that both we and they have our true meed at the hands of the Great Dispenser of all men's doom . If , as we know , in that day the first shall be last ...
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... . Scripture gives us a true representation of what men feel about this , when it speaks of the " everlasting hills . " Hill and dale are , as it were , terms of the covenant by which man holds the earth . Now what is the IN ADVENT . 55.
... . Scripture gives us a true representation of what men feel about this , when it speaks of the " everlasting hills . " Hill and dale are , as it were , terms of the covenant by which man holds the earth . Now what is the IN ADVENT . 55.
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... feel that any day might bring loss of health , loss of friends , loss of worldly means , loss of reason , loss of life ? And is not this feeling a very instinct of our humanity ? Is not the denial of its truth a denial of the very condi ...
... feel that any day might bring loss of health , loss of friends , loss of worldly means , loss of reason , loss of life ? And is not this feeling a very instinct of our humanity ? Is not the denial of its truth a denial of the very condi ...
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