Self-culture and Self-reliance, Under God the Means of Self-elevation

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Wesleyan Conference Office, 1879 - Religious education - 152 pages

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Page 132 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
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