The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63, Volume 4David Thomas |
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... matter or mind , the word " im- material " has no meaning to me , and , therefore , how can I logically predicate anything concerning it ? Is it , secondly , on the wonderful things which the human mind has achieved ? I have heard the ...
... matter or mind , the word " im- material " has no meaning to me , and , therefore , how can I logically predicate anything concerning it ? Is it , secondly , on the wonderful things which the human mind has achieved ? I have heard the ...
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... Love needs experience to make it perfect , and to fit it for its severe and delicate service in this world of sin and sorrow . Yet , however needful it may be , it may It may seem strange to make it a matter of 16 CHRISTIAN LOVE .
... Love needs experience to make it perfect , and to fit it for its severe and delicate service in this world of sin and sorrow . Yet , however needful it may be , it may It may seem strange to make it a matter of 16 CHRISTIAN LOVE .
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David Thomas. It may seem strange to make it a matter of exhortation . seem to some , like exhorting to old age and hoar hairs . " We shall get experience as we grow older . " I am not quite sure of that . A long and eventful life does ...
David Thomas. It may seem strange to make it a matter of exhortation . seem to some , like exhorting to old age and hoar hairs . " We shall get experience as we grow older . " I am not quite sure of that . A long and eventful life does ...
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... matter that is a simple substance . Pro- bably , the next race of chemical analysists will find that oxygen , nitrogen , and such substances , which are now con- sidered elemental , are but compositions . But we think of spirit as an ...
... matter that is a simple substance . Pro- bably , the next race of chemical analysists will find that oxygen , nitrogen , and such substances , which are now con- sidered elemental , are but compositions . But we think of spirit as an ...
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... matter ; neither dust nor globe would ever move , were it not set in motion by a foreign force . And whilst life in trees and flesh moves , it ever moves by impulses , over which it has no controul ; -hence in these forms it moves in ...
... matter ; neither dust nor globe would ever move , were it not set in motion by a foreign force . And whilst life in trees and flesh moves , it ever moves by impulses , over which it has no controul ; -hence in these forms it moves in ...
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Page 240 - And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Page 188 - Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Page 53 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 332 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 280 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 26 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Page 406 - And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. 62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Page 51 - And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, " Let us go again and visit our brethren, in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
Page 28 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 121 - AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS. AND CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND SHUT HIM UP AND SET A SEAL UPON HIM, THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE FULFILLED: AND AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED A LITTLE SEASON.