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Page 70 - And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. * Freely ye received, freely give. * Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food.
Page 121 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 35 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 198 - About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Page 246 - It matters little," said one abbot of the eleventh century,1 " that our churches rise to heaven, that the capitals of their pillars are sculptured and gilded, that our parchment is tinted purple, that gold is melted to form the letters of our...
Page 148 - Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Madras, Higginbotham and Co., 1881, pp.
Page 158 - knaw it weel ; for I see the stepill " (steeple) " of that place, ' where God first in public opened my mouth to his glorie, ' and I am fully persuaded, how weak that ever I now appear, ' that I shall not depart this lyeff, till that my tongue shall ' glorifie his godlie name in the same place.
Page 213 - God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your help or mine ! ' ' Neither daunted nor discouraged by repulses, Carey embodied his views in a pamphlet, which he showed to Mr.
Page 248 - I go tomorrow before the Board at the workhouse, to compel the removal to the infirmary of a man who ought to have been there already. I shall drive the sanitary inspector to put the Act against overcrowding in force, with regard to some houses in which there have been as many as eight and ten bodies occupying one room.
Page 236 - ... have proved that they can be done without, for you are strong in health, and in the possession of all your faculties. After much reflection on the subject, I have come to the conviction that there is no necessity for them for any one in good health ; and I advise you all to follow my example.