 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - Oxford movement - 1916 - 652 pages
...corroborate these sentiments. "I went to America to convert the Indians ; but oh ! who shall convert me? ... I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well ; nay,...death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. . . . Whosoever sees me, sees I would be a Christian. . . . But in a storm I think, what if the Gospel... | |
 | Abram Lipsky - Theologians - 1928 - 336 pages
..."I went to America," he wrote in his diary, "to convert the Indians, but oh! who shall convert me? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, nay,...death look me in the face and my spirit is troubled. Oh, who will deliver me from this fear of death? This then have I learned in the ends of the earth,... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 532 pages
...convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion....spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, "to die is gain" [Phil. 1:11], I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore!... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 434 pages
...convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion....say, to die is gain. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore! I think, verily, if the Gospel be true, I am... | |
 | William Carl Placher - Religion - 1983 - 332 pages
...the confident faith of the Moravians during a storm at sea, he admitted that he was afraid to die. I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well; nay,...death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. . . . What if the Gospel is not true? A dream, a cunningly-devised fable . . ,27 His experiences in... | |
 | Christine Reed (F.) - Christianity and other religions - 1997 - 268 pages
...sometimes doubted his own faith and inner strength. Manwell and Fahs report that he wrote in his journal, "I can talk well, nay, and believe myself, while no...death look me in the face and my spirit is troubled. . . . O who will deliver me from this fear of death?" While in America, Wesley spoke against slavery.... | |
 | E. Michael Rusten, Sharon O. Rusten - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 840 pages
...O! who shall convert me? Who, what is he that shall deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? 1 can talk well; nay, and believe myself while no danger...me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Nor can 1 say, 'to die is gain.' " After a short unsuccessful time in America, the brothers returned to England,... | |
 | David Ware Stowe - Music - 2004 - 366 pages
...the voyage home; "but oh, who shall convert me? Who, what is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion....spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, 'To die is gain'!" Others took a more sanguine view of the experiment. George Whitefield, an enormously successful evangelist... | |
 | Leo Hebert, III - 2005 - 186 pages
...[sic] shall convert me? who [sic], what is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of mischief? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well; nay,..."To die is gain!" I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shorel I think, verily, if the gospel be true, I am... | |
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I went to America to convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, nay, and believe myself, while no danger is near. But let death... 
