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... knew said in my hearing , ' I should never have gone into the Church if I had not felt it was in me to preach much better than Caird . ' A homely Scot said to me , of one who was a seventh - rate student and a preacher of no rate at all ...
... knew said in my hearing , ' I should never have gone into the Church if I had not felt it was in me to preach much better than Caird . ' A homely Scot said to me , of one who was a seventh - rate student and a preacher of no rate at all ...
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... knew a most eminent preacher whose elders were of so unpolished a class , that one of them would pat him on the shoulder , and say , with entire candour and probably with entire truth , ' Ye werena jist yersel ' the day , sir ! ' Even ...
... knew a most eminent preacher whose elders were of so unpolished a class , that one of them would pat him on the shoulder , and say , with entire candour and probably with entire truth , ' Ye werena jist yersel ' the day , sir ! ' Even ...
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... knew not how unspeakably revolting to me is any irreverence in church , that my text was to be ' I will pull down my barns , and build greater . ' My answer was , that I would not tell them what my text would be , but that most as ...
... knew not how unspeakably revolting to me is any irreverence in church , that my text was to be ' I will pull down my barns , and build greater . ' My answer was , that I would not tell them what my text would be , but that most as ...
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... knew he was a Dissenter in Scot- land . Once , coming home with him from a meeting for a benevolent purpose , I expressed my regret that not one of our good dissenting ministers had been present . ' No , ' replied the Bishop ...
... knew he was a Dissenter in Scot- land . Once , coming home with him from a meeting for a benevolent purpose , I expressed my regret that not one of our good dissenting ministers had been present . ' No , ' replied the Bishop ...
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... knew Bishop Wordsworth even a little , could for one moment have re- garded him as a self - seeker . But for an adherence to principle which to many appeared Quixotic , he might have been anywhere . Vividly it comes to me how one day ...
... knew Bishop Wordsworth even a little , could for one moment have re- garded him as a self - seeker . But for an adherence to principle which to many appeared Quixotic , he might have been anywhere . Vividly it comes to me how one day ...
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