Prevailing prayer, an account of the Old South chapel prayer meeting, Boston, with intr. by N. Macleod |
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Page xi
... brother ? For , is there not many a child of God who , if asked the question proposed at the Old South Prayer - meeting ( p . 41 ) , " How long have you been a believer , brother ? could not reply with anything like the statistical ac ...
... brother ? For , is there not many a child of God who , if asked the question proposed at the Old South Prayer - meeting ( p . 41 ) , " How long have you been a believer , brother ? could not reply with anything like the statistical ac ...
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... brother , so often , alas , concealed from our eye by the darkness of our proud and selfish hearts ! With these few imperfect remarks , we beg to intro- duce this small volume to the notice of our readers . Whatever judgment may be ...
... brother , so often , alas , concealed from our eye by the darkness of our proud and selfish hearts ! With these few imperfect remarks , we beg to intro- duce this small volume to the notice of our readers . Whatever judgment may be ...
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... brother who took charge one day was expected to secure some one to conduct it the fol- lowing day . Within the last year or two , a com- mittee has been appointed which has the control of the meeting in all its appointments . This com ...
... brother who took charge one day was expected to secure some one to conduct it the fol- lowing day . Within the last year or two , a com- mittee has been appointed which has the control of the meeting in all its appointments . This com ...
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... brother in Christ , the Rev. Louis Dwight ; the other , our Christian brother Blanchard , still happily lives . Mr. Dwight has been peculiarly a man of prayer . It is believed that with him originated the very impor- tant prayer ...
... brother in Christ , the Rev. Louis Dwight ; the other , our Christian brother Blanchard , still happily lives . Mr. Dwight has been peculiarly a man of prayer . It is believed that with him originated the very impor- tant prayer ...
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... Brother Palmer , of South Boston , was dis- abled by a fall , during the last winter , and is still confined , suffering a paralysis of the lower limbs . But his mind has been unaffected , and his interest in this prayer - meeting has ...
... Brother Palmer , of South Boston , was dis- abled by a fall , during the last winter , and is still confined , suffering a paralysis of the lower limbs . But his mind has been unaffected , and his interest in this prayer - meeting has ...
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Page 123 - Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
Page 33 - And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with, compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will ; be thou clean.
Page xvi - For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time...
Page 36 - How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
Page 45 - THE morning light is breaking, The darkness disappears ; The sons of earth are waking To penitential tears : Each breeze that sweeps the ocean Brings tidings from afar Of nations in commotion, Prepared for Zion's war.
Page 34 - Our souls can neither fly nor go, To reach eternal joys. 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 4...
Page xv - And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
Page 109 - Ps. 1. 1 BLEST is the man who shuns the place Where sinners love to meet, Who fears to tread their wicked ways, And hates the scoffer's seat ; — 2 But in the statutes of the Lord Has placed his chief delight ; By day he reads or hears the word, And meditates by night. 3 He, like a plant of generous kind By living waters set, Safe from the...
Page 95 - JESUS, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress ; 'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.
Page 65 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.