Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin: Pastor of Waldbach, in the Ban de la Roche. Compiled from Authentic Sources, Chiefly French and GermanL. Loomis, 1832 - 246 páginas |
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... mind that does not rise from this memoir excited and mightier for God , has a heartlessness and apathy none will covet . Among the peculiar benefits derived from this memoir , I may mention the idea the reader will receive , First , Of ...
... mind that does not rise from this memoir excited and mightier for God , has a heartlessness and apathy none will covet . Among the peculiar benefits derived from this memoir , I may mention the idea the reader will receive , First , Of ...
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... mind to comprehend the providential government of God . It is just that we should suffer for our imbecility or apathy . Let us know , and feel , and attempt our duty , watching , however , as to motives , " that whatever we do , all is ...
... mind to comprehend the providential government of God . It is just that we should suffer for our imbecility or apathy . Let us know , and feel , and attempt our duty , watching , however , as to motives , " that whatever we do , all is ...
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... mind - Louisa Schepler becomes his housekeeper - Letter from the latter- Letter , taken from a German Magazine printed at Tubingen , containing an account of Oberlin and his family , in the year 1793 - Death of his eldest son Frederic ...
... mind - Louisa Schepler becomes his housekeeper - Letter from the latter- Letter , taken from a German Magazine printed at Tubingen , containing an account of Oberlin and his family , in the year 1793 - Death of his eldest son Frederic ...
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... mind less ardent and less ener- getic than his own . The following anecdote will convey some idea of the state of the parish on his first arrival there . Desiring to be shown the principal school - house , he was conducted into a miser ...
... mind less ardent and less ener- getic than his own . The following anecdote will convey some idea of the state of the parish on his first arrival there . Desiring to be shown the principal school - house , he was conducted into a miser ...
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... minds to a knowledge of the happiness enjoyed by the people of God , and the means of attaining that happiness ; and to convince them that , notwithstanding the poverty of their external circumstances , the Almighty would protect and ...
... minds to a knowledge of the happiness enjoyed by the people of God , and the means of attaining that happiness ; and to convince them that , notwithstanding the poverty of their external circumstances , the Almighty would protect and ...
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Página 122 - 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.
Página 123 - 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.
Página 228 - 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.
Página 181 - 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.
Página 89 - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Página 187 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage ; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage, neither can they die any more ; for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Página 40 - This day do I, with the utmost solemnity, surrender myself to thee. I renounce all former lords that have had dominion over me ; and I consecrate to thee all that I am, and all that I have, — the faculties of my mind, the members of my body, my worldly possessions, my time, and my influence over others, to be all used entirely for thy glory, and resolutely employed in obedience to thy commands, as long as thou...
Página 240 - BLESS the LORD, O my soul : And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, 0 my soul, And forget not all his benefits : Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Página 193 - 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 ! LYRA GERMANICA (translated by Miss C.
Página 123 - And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household...