Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin ...: Prepared for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchCarlton & Phillips, 1853 - 200 pages |
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... infancy and my youth God often vouchsafed to touch my heart , and to draw me to himself . He bore with me , in my repeated backslidings , with a kindness and indulgence hardly to be ex- pressed . " MEMOIRS OF OBERLIN . 21.
... infancy and my youth God often vouchsafed to touch my heart , and to draw me to himself . He bore with me , in my repeated backslidings , with a kindness and indulgence hardly to be ex- pressed . " MEMOIRS OF OBERLIN . 21.
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... heart , but expressly declare it in the divine presence ... Do it in express words . And per- haps it may be in many cases most expedient , as many pious divines have recommended , to do it in writing . Set your hand and seal to it ...
... heart , but expressly declare it in the divine presence ... Do it in express words . And per- haps it may be in many cases most expedient , as many pious divines have recommended , to do it in writing . Set your hand and seal to it ...
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... heart is prepared with a becoming awe of the divine Ma- jesty , with an humble confidence in his goodness , and an earnest desire of his favour , then present yourself on your knees before God , and read it over deliberately and so ...
... heart is prepared with a becoming awe of the divine Ma- jesty , with an humble confidence in his goodness , and an earnest desire of his favour , then present yourself on your knees before God , and read it over deliberately and so ...
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... heart , were wishing to forsake all for Christ : Oberlin , therefore , after many ear- nest prayers that a blessing might rest upon himself and upon the little flock committed to his charge , accompanied his new friend and patron ...
... heart , were wishing to forsake all for Christ : Oberlin , therefore , after many ear- nest prayers that a blessing might rest upon himself and upon the little flock committed to his charge , accompanied his new friend and patron ...
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... hearts are closely allied , and because I have sometimes observed with deep concern the dangers incident to young ... heart of man is deceitful , and naturally tends to earth if it is not constantly drawn upward . “ There are yet two ...
... hearts are closely allied , and because I have sometimes observed with deep concern the dangers incident to young ... heart of man is deceitful , and naturally tends to earth if it is not constantly drawn upward . “ There are yet two ...
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MEMOIRS OF JOHN FREDERIC OBERL Johann Friedrich 1740-1826 Oberlin,Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Schoo No preview available - 2016 |
Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin ... Prepared for the Sunday School Union of ... Johann Friedrich Oberlin No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 87 - 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 181 - 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.
Page 139 - 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 88 - 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 89 - 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.
Page 75 - ... let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 160 - 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. 9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
Page 143 - Renouncing every worldly thing, Safe 'neath the covert of thy wing, My sweetest thought henceforth shall be. That all I want I find in Thee— In Thee, my God, in Thee!
Page 194 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name ; bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits; who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and healeth all thy diseases...
Page 53 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory. And thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God : — for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.