Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin ...: Prepared for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchCarlton & Phillips, 1853 - 200 pages |
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... whole life has been devoted to pious and disinterested exertions for the temporal and spiritual good of mankind , have not unfrequently proved the means of awakening the desires , and strength- ening the resolutions of others to follow ...
... whole life has been devoted to pious and disinterested exertions for the temporal and spiritual good of mankind , have not unfrequently proved the means of awakening the desires , and strength- ening the resolutions of others to follow ...
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... whole , and thank him for having crowned your exertions with even this partial success , you will find increased cause for the exercise of self - distrust , patience , and humility . God will , I feel assured , bless your endeavours ...
... whole , and thank him for having crowned your exertions with even this partial success , you will find increased cause for the exercise of self - distrust , patience , and humility . God will , I feel assured , bless your endeavours ...
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... whole parish . The increased number of hands rendered an in- creased number of implements necessary ; he procured them from Strasburg ; expenses accu- mulated ; he interested his distant friends , and , through their assistance , funds ...
... whole parish . The increased number of hands rendered an in- creased number of implements necessary ; he procured them from Strasburg ; expenses accu- mulated ; he interested his distant friends , and , through their assistance , funds ...
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... whole days ' work must be lost in going to Strasburg to procure more , and even then the poor peasants were destitute of ready money to purchase them . To remedy this inconvenience , he stocked a large ware- house in Waldbach with the ...
... whole days ' work must be lost in going to Strasburg to procure more , and even then the poor peasants were destitute of ready money to purchase them . To remedy this inconvenience , he stocked a large ware- house in Waldbach with the ...
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... whole proceedings , he reserved for himself , almost exclusively , the religious instruction of this large family . Every Sunday the children of each village , in rota- tion , assembled at the church , to sing the hymns they had learned ...
... whole proceedings , he reserved for himself , almost exclusively , the religious instruction of this large family . Every Sunday the children of each village , in rota- tion , assembled at the church , to sing the hymns they had learned ...
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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.