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... ministry , are extensively threatened with the loss of employment , and the consequent want of bread , unless they will absent themselves from the class - meeting , and the hated " conventicle . " In some of the manufacturing districts ...
... ministry , are extensively threatened with the loss of employment , and the consequent want of bread , unless they will absent themselves from the class - meeting , and the hated " conventicle . " In some of the manufacturing districts ...
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... minister , he was so questionably occupied . A second is described as having been disap- pointed of his hopes of rising ... ministry which they are now seeking to degrade and vilify , having been repudiated as insufficient or un- worthy ...
... minister , he was so questionably occupied . A second is described as having been disap- pointed of his hopes of rising ... ministry which they are now seeking to degrade and vilify , having been repudiated as insufficient or un- worthy ...
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... ministry , the character of every Methodist preacher undergoes an annual examination . At every district meeting in the month of May , and at every Conference , the name of each minister is called over , and the question is distinctly ...
... ministry , the character of every Methodist preacher undergoes an annual examination . At every district meeting in the month of May , and at every Conference , the name of each minister is called over , and the question is distinctly ...
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... ministry ; and if improvement is to be made , in this respect , it must commence here . " Like priest - like people is a true proverb . Christian churches are what their ministers make them by their spirit and conduct . Almost every ...
... ministry ; and if improvement is to be made , in this respect , it must commence here . " Like priest - like people is a true proverb . Christian churches are what their ministers make them by their spirit and conduct . Almost every ...
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... ministry , in connexion with that of his brethren , is the conversion of sinners to Christ , and their subsequent esta- blishment in experimental and practical holiness : in one word , the raising up of a sanctified , obedient , zealous ...
... ministry , in connexion with that of his brethren , is the conversion of sinners to Christ , and their subsequent esta- blishment in experimental and practical holiness : in one word , the raising up of a sanctified , obedient , zealous ...
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Page 36 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 100 - Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Page 53 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 142 - Oh blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Page 100 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Je-sus.
Page 72 - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Page 63 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 23 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power, not one faileth.
Page 106 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Page 63 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; — And labour, working with our own hands...