item: #1 of 323 id: 10022 author: Bueltmann, A. J. title: White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar date: None words: 38825 flesch: 98 summary: King Eyo Honesty, said Mary, I am Mary Slessor. * * * WHITE QUEEN OF THE CANNIBALS The Story of Mary Slessor By A.J. Bueltmann When Mary was young, she heard her mother read about the dangers and rewards of missionary work in Calabar, Africa. keywords: chief; children; church; edem; god; home; house; jesus; jungle; man; mary; men; mission; missionary; mother; people; slessor; things; time; village; work cache: 10022.txt plain text: 10022.txt item: #2 of 323 id: 10129 author: Various title: Excellent Women date: None words: 111422 flesch: 70 summary: She had early renounced the world and its fascinations; left Bath, where her mother and sister Christiana Gurney resided; became eventually a minister among Friends; and found a congenial retreat for many years at Colebrook Dale. Garrick's widow sought relief and solace in Hannah's company, and for many years a close friendship was kept up between the two ladies, although there could be but little intercourse on religious matters, Mrs. Garrick being a Roman Catholic. keywords: age; bible; book; children; christian; church; daughter; day; days; death; duchess; early; england; english; faith; family; father; footnote; friends; god; good; great; having; heart; help; holy; home; house; huntingdon; husband; jesus; john; judson; king; lady; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; mary; mind; miss; months; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; place; poor; power; prayer; reading; religion; rest; return; russell; school; service; sister; society; soul; spirit; state; thee; things; thought; thy; time; visit; way; wesley; whately; women; words; work; world; years cache: 10129.txt plain text: 10129.txt item: #3 of 323 id: 10274 author: Barrow, Isaac title: Sermons on Evil-Speaking date: None words: 38368 flesch: 55 summary: Especially this scurrilous and scoffing way is then most detestable when it not only exposeth the blemishes and infirmities of men, but abuseth piety and virtue themselves; flouting persons for their constancy in devotion, or their strict adherence to a conscientious practice of duty; aiming to effect that which Job complaineth of, The just upright man is laughed to scorn; resembling those whom the psalmist thus describeth, Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their arrows, even bitter words, that they may shoot in secret at the perfect; serving good men as Jeremy was served--The word of the Lord, saith he, was made a reproach unto me, and a derision daily. When men, to raise an admiration of their wit, to please themselves, or gratify the humours of other men, do expose their neighbour to scorn and contempt, making ignominious reflections upon his person and his actions, taunting his real imperfections, or fastening imaginary ones upon him, they transgress their duty, and abuse their wits; 'tis not urbanity, or genuine facetiousness, but uncivil rudeness or vile malignity. keywords: cause; discourse; doth; evil; god; good; greek; hath; ill; justice; kind; lord; man; men; mind; nature; neighbour; oath; persons; practice; reason; saith; slander; speech; swearing; things; thou; truth; use; way; wit; words cache: 10274.txt plain text: 10274.txt item: #4 of 323 id: 10630 author: Havergal, Frances Ridley title: Coming to the King date: None words: 1772 flesch: 87 summary: Behold Thee in Thy beauty, behold Thee face to face, Behold Thee in Thy glory and reap Thy smile of grace And be with Thee for ever, and never grieve Thee more! [Illustration] Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before Thee and that hear Thy wisdom 1 Kings X 8 Coming to the King By Frances Ridley Havergal Coming to the King. keywords: illustration; king; thee cache: 10630.txt plain text: 10630.txt item: #5 of 323 id: 10831 author: Wilder, Sampson Vryling Stoddard title: The Village in the Mountains; Conversion of Peter Bayssière; and History of a Bible date: None words: 23376 flesch: 64 summary: May this paper, my dear children, by the blessing of God, contribute to the triumph of the Gospel, and to the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, by filling your hearts with the love of truth, and by leading you in the way of true religion. You may depend on receiving them, said M. ----, if God prolongs my life. keywords: children; christ; church; day; god; good; gospel; heaven; jesus; life; lord; peter; religion; saviour; sir; testament; time; widow; world cache: 10831.txt plain text: 10831.txt item: #6 of 323 id: 11149 author: Anonymous title: Little Folded Hands Prayers for Children date: None words: 4458 flesch: 99 summary: 83. Lord, teach us how to keep Thy day And lead and bless us all the way. God, who by Thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to Thy holy apostles many excellent gifts and commandedst them faithfully to feed Thy flock, bless, we beseech Thee, our pastor that he may diligently preach Thy holy Word, and grant us grace to believe Thy saving Gospel and obediently to follow the teachings of Thy Word, that we may receive the crown of everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. keywords: amen; jesus; lord; thee; thou cache: 11149.txt plain text: 11149.txt item: #7 of 323 id: 11449 author: Carey, William title: An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered date: None words: 14830 flesch: 73 summary: Budziac Tartary 300 60 1,200,000 Greek Christians, Jews, & Mahometans Lesser Tartary 390 65 1,000,000 Ditto. Ditto. keywords: apostles; christians; church; compass; ditto; god; good; gospel; lord; mahometans; means; number; pagans; papists; paul; preaching; success; time; way; work; world cache: 11449.txt plain text: 11449.txt item: #8 of 323 id: 11553 author: None title: The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer date: None words: 124647 flesch: 80 summary: The old man was fervently praying; but when he saw young C. with the pail of provisions, he held up both hands and said, Now I know that God heareth prayer. Every step was accomplished by the simple way of prayer; and, when I slept, late that night, in a cosy room at the Methodist parsonage in N.B., I could look back over the last few weeks, and thank God for the _power of prayer_. keywords: answer; bed; business; case; children; christian; church; come; day; days; death; dollars; faith; family; father; friend; god; good; hand; heart; help; home; house; husband; jesus; lady; left; letter; life; little; lord; man; means; meeting; mind; missionary; money; months; morning; mother; need; new; night; pay; power; prayer; praying; room; sick; thought; time; trust; way; weeks; wife; woman; work; years cache: 11553.txt plain text: 11553.txt item: #9 of 323 id: 11627 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02: Hooker to South date: None words: 55926 flesch: 69 summary: And now I stand here, and am judged, for the hope of the promise made unto the fathers; unto which promise our twelve scribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Great men and gentlemen think God will spare them. keywords: abraham; blood; body; christ; day; dead; death; faith; god; good; hath; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; judge; know; life; light; lord; love; man; men; nature; power; reason; resurrection; run; salvation; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; world cache: 11627.txt plain text: 11627.txt item: #10 of 323 id: 11693 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little date: None words: 54778 flesch: 75 summary: A bishop's daily round, they said, his endless correspondence, his hurried journeyings, his weight of anxious cares, the misadventures of other men, ever returning to plague him,--how can he bring himself to stoop and deal with these? Do I say, then, that Jesus Christ was a man like other men? keywords: believe; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; evil; experience; faith; father; god; good; heart; heaven; human; jesus; know; life; like; little; lord; love; man; men; nature; need; new; night; power; pride; self; sin; soul; spirit; spiritual; things; think; thou; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 11693.txt plain text: 11693.txt item: #11 of 323 id: 11713 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 03: Massillon to Mason date: None words: 51884 flesch: 71 summary: Great God! To a question so often proposed, and still oftener resolved, our Savior answers you here, that there were many widows in Israel afflicted with famine; but the widow of Sarepta was alone found worthy the succor of the prophet Elias; that the number of lepers was great in Israel in the time of the prophet Eliseus; and that Naaman was only cured by the man of God. keywords: christ; death; divine; earth; faith; father; felix; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; hour; jesus; knowledge; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; peace; righteousness; sin; son; soul; spirit; things; thou; time; truth; way; world cache: 11713.txt plain text: 11713.txt item: #12 of 323 id: 11760 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and General Index date: None words: 53988 flesch: 77 summary: Nor had they come to him as many men falsely suppose revelation and inspiration exclusively have come to mankind, by means, namely, that were extraordinary and miraculous. It was not altogether satisfactory, many men revolted from it, and in the seventeenth century a Dutchman, Hugo Grotius, a lawyer, brought forth another interpretation, which is known in theology as the governmental theory. keywords: bible; book; character; christ; christian; christianity; church; day; death; divine; earth; fact; faith; father; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; hope; human; ideal; infidelity; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; light; little; lord; love; man; men; nature; new; paul; people; power; religion; sins; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; voice; way; william; words; work; world; years cache: 11760.txt plain text: 11760.txt item: #13 of 323 id: 11762 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888 date: None words: 15615 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., 35, _for Indian M._ ... Ch., _for Indian M._ ...5.00 COLORADO, $41.35. keywords: aid; christian; cong; cong ch; day; girls; home; indian; ladies; men; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; white; woman; work; year cache: 11762.txt plain text: 11762.txt item: #14 of 323 id: 11763 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 02, February, 1888 date: None words: 14111 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., by Miss S.E. Adams, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ Gorham. Ch., _for Student Aid, Selma, Ala._ 16.00 West Falmouth. keywords: agency; aid; ala; association; atlanta; bbl; church; cong; cong ch; d.d; indian; ladies; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n.c; n.y; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; teacher; tenn; west; work cache: 11763.txt plain text: 11763.txt item: #15 of 323 id: 11764 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888 date: None words: 18188 flesch: 86 summary: Ch., 5; Seamen's Bethel Ch., 5 ...532.11 Portland. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...15.00 Enfield. keywords: aid; american; atlanta; bbl; class; cong; cong ch; const; english; etc; fisk; friend; god; home; ind'l; indian; l.m; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; n.c; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; schools; soc; south; student; talladega; union; woman; work cache: 11764.txt plain text: 11764.txt item: #16 of 323 id: 11966 author: Symons, John C. (John Christian) title: The Village Sunday School, with brief sketches of three of its scholars date: None words: 10657 flesch: 66 summary: They were very regular in their attendance, and when in school behaved just as others did, only that for their generally correct answers in the catechetical exercises, which usually followed the reading of Scripture, they were almost constantly at the head of the class. So many of our teachers and scholars were under conviction, that we did not think it proper to have school in the morning, but held a prayer-meeting, at which the presence of God was eminently felt, and several cried aloud. keywords: chapel; children; church; class; god; james; sabbath; school; sunday; teachers; thomas; time cache: 11966.txt plain text: 11966.txt item: #17 of 323 id: 11981 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01: Basil to Calvin date: None words: 54627 flesch: 72 summary: Altho we may not attain to the truth, if, with the help of the Spirit, we do not fall away from the meaning of Holy Scripture, we shall not deserve to be rejected, and with the help of grace, we shall contribute to the edification of the Church of God. The fertility of the earth is its perfect finishing; growth of all kinds of plants, the up-springing of tall trees, both productive and unfruitful, flowers' sweet scents and fair colors, and all that which, a little later, at the voice of God came forth from the earth to beautify her, their universal mother. keywords: body; bread; christ; day; death; earth; faith; father; god; good; hath; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; law; life; light; lord; love; man; men; satan; son; spirit; thee; things; thou; time; truth; works; world cache: 11981.txt plain text: 11981.txt item: #18 of 323 id: 12042 author: Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) title: The value of a praying mother date: None words: 27238 flesch: 84 summary: Bessie Sees Her Duty CHAPTER XXIV. With throbbing heart Bessie ran to her room, which was already getting hot from the fire: she fell upon her knees by the window where she could see the flames leaping from tree to tree, and began to call mightily upon God. keywords: bessie; chapter; child; children; father; god; heart; help; home; life; lord; love; mother; mrs; parents; prayer; time; way; worthington cache: 12042.txt plain text: 12042.txt item: #19 of 323 id: 12087 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 04, April, 1888 date: None words: 16776 flesch: 83 summary: Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Austin, Tex. Janesville. Ch., 2, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 77.00 Bridgeton. keywords: aid; american; atlanta; bbl; black; box; christian; cong; friend; god; good; hill; home; indian; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; teachers; tenn; woman; work cache: 12087.txt plain text: 12087.txt item: #20 of 323 id: 12118 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 05, May, 1888 date: None words: 17029 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., _for Indian M._ 31.07 Boston. Ch., _for Bird's Nest Indian M._ 50.00 Waterbury. keywords: aid; american; association; cent; christian; church; class; cong; cong ch; english; friend; government; indian; life; little; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; schools; soc; south; student; vernacular; whites; work; year cache: 12118.txt plain text: 12118.txt item: #21 of 323 id: 12134 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 06, June, 1888 date: None words: 16602 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., _for Indian M._ 5.00 South Newmarket. Ch., _for Indian M._ 20.00 Burlington. keywords: american; association; atlanta; chinese; christian; church; class; cong; fisk; friend; good; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; race; rev; sab; sch; school; south; talladega; tenn; union; white; woman; work; years cache: 12134.txt plain text: 12134.txt item: #22 of 323 id: 12854 author: Murray, Andrew title: The Master's Indwelling date: None words: 44555 flesch: 85 summary: Oh, come, and let your intercourse with God be summed up in a simple prayer and answer--My God, as much as Thou wilt have of me to fill with Christ, Thou shalt have to-day. Are we, by the grace of God, in deep humility living a spiritual life, or are we living a carnal life? keywords: christ; christ jesus; day; death; god; heart; holy; jesus; joy; kingdom; life; love; man; power; self; sin; spirit; work cache: 12854.txt plain text: 12854.txt item: #23 of 323 id: 13069 author: Hoben, Allan title: The Minister and the Boy: A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work date: None words: 36276 flesch: 59 summary: Let this be complemented with visits to institutions, offices, plants, courts, and the marts and centers of commercial, industrial, and agricultural life; and, best of all, cemented in the personal friendship, practical interest and sponsorship of an adult and wise counselor who helps the boy both to the place and in the place; and, within the limits of the rather small constituency of church boys at least, there is guaranteed a piece of religious work that is bound to tell. Here, as everywhere else in boy-life, the loyalty appeal, which, as nothing else, will keep him true to mother and father, to society, and to God, stands the religious leader in good stead. keywords: age; boy; boyhood; boys; children; church; church boys; church work; city; club; community; country; god; good; hand; home; life; little; man; men; minister; pastor; people; place; play; public; religion; right; school; self; service; sunday; time; use; value; way; work; world; years; youth cache: 13069.txt plain text: 13069.txt item: #24 of 323 id: 13196 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on Prayer date: None words: 53955 flesch: 85 summary: If fatigued in body or wearied in spirit, He had recourse to His one unfailing habit of _prayer. How plain it becomes that all the marvellous power displayed in His brief earthly career _came through prayer_. keywords: action; bit; book; day; earth; father; god; heart; human; jesus; know; life; love; man; master; men; night; paul; place; plan; power; prayer; praying; purpose; satan; second; service; spirit; thing; thinking; thought; thy; time; touch; way; word cache: 13196.txt plain text: 13196.txt item: #25 of 323 id: 13285 author: Masham, Damaris, Lady title: Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian life date: None words: 34984 flesch: 27 summary: They also, how much soever they, perhaps, secretly contemn'd such things, did yet generally pay a great outward regard to matters of Religion; which have ever abounded in the best Govern'd, and most Flourishing Kingdoms, and Common-wealths. To perswade Ladies then that what they cannot want without being contemptible, is the chief Merit they are capable of having, must naturally either give them such low thoughts of themselves as will hinder them from aspiring after any thing Excellent, or else make them believe that this mean Opinion of them is owing to the injustice of such Men in their regard as pretend to be their Masters. keywords: actions; children; christian; god; good; having; knowledge; law; life; men; nature; people; pleasure; reason; religion; revelation; right; rule; things; tho; truth; vertue; world cache: 13285.txt plain text: 13285.txt item: #26 of 323 id: 13294 author: Orr, Charles Ebert title: Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians date: None words: 30397 flesch: 83 summary: As bread sustains physical life, so the word of God sustains spiritual life. If your last thoughts in the evening and your earliest thoughts in the morning are of the loved one, you are being estranged from God and losing spiritual life. keywords: christian; day; earth; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; home; jesus; life; lord; love; man; power; prayer; soul; spirit; spiritual; things; time; way; world cache: 13294.txt plain text: 13294.txt item: #27 of 323 id: 13330 author: Smith, F. G. (Frederick George) title: The Last Reformation date: None words: 54752 flesch: 62 summary: They sought not for themselves freedom of thought and speech nor church power. No matter how spiritual the movement at its beginning, when its leaders were not longing for church power but were earnestly preaching the Word of the Lord as it came unto them, as soon as the sect machinery was thoroughly organized and was set in motion the inevitable tendency has been to throw around the movement a wall of creedal and ecclesiastical exclusiveness which shut out other true people of God; and then began a process of crystalization which ever afterwards precluded the unfolding of new truth. keywords: apostles; authority; beast; body; chapter; christ; christianity; church; church government; dragon; earth; faith; god; great; holy; human; jesus; kingdom; life; lord; members; men; paul; people; period; power; reformation; rome; sidenote; spirit; things; time; truth; work; world cache: 13330.txt plain text: 13330.txt item: #28 of 323 id: 13360 author: Allen, Roland title: Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions date: None words: 39242 flesch: 61 summary: | Scholars | Conclusions. | Bible School | Teaching | ------------------------------------------- keywords: christian |; church; con |; conclusions |; educational; evangelistic |; medical; missionary; survey; total |; | +; | --------------------------------------------------------+------|; | ---------------------------------------------------------|-----|; | communicants; | constituency; | contribution; | government; | mission; | number; | population; | proportion; | remarks; | schools; | tion; | work; | workers; | | cache: 13360.txt plain text: 13360.txt item: #29 of 323 id: 13424 author: Anonymous title: Honoring Parents date: None words: 853 flesch: 81 summary: The morning hymn was sung, and then all knelt to implore the blessing of him who loved little children when he was in the world, and who loves them no less now he is in heaven. Yes; she knew that some good mother had taught little Willy not to return evil for evil, but to do good to those that used him spitefully. keywords: willy cache: 13424.txt plain text: 13424.txt item: #30 of 323 id: 13460 author: Dods, Marcus title: How to become like Christ date: None words: 17043 flesch: 71 summary: We may be dimly conscious that our tastes are not precisely those of other men, and that if the ordinary ways of society are the best men can devise for spending life satisfactorily, these are scarcely the ways that will suit us. Instead of expanding our nature and bringing us into a finished and satisfactory condition, and setting our life in right relations with other men, we find the new gift to be a curse to us, hampering us, cutting us off in unexpected ways from our usefulness, thwarting and blighting our life round its whole circumference. keywords: character; christ; face; glory; god; image; jesus; life; man; men; peter; sin; things; world cache: 13460.txt plain text: 13460.txt item: #31 of 323 id: 13533 author: Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy title: The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training date: None words: 30260 flesch: 68 summary: It is indeed true that child life is that out of which man life is to come, but the difference is more vital than that of inches or strength. The man has a sense of responsibility to his neighbor and to God, unknown to child life. keywords: action; activity; character; child; childhood; children; development; feelings; god; heart; home; lesson; life; love; nurture; period; physical; power; school; soul; sunday; teacher; things; time; work; world; years cache: 13533.txt plain text: 13533.txt item: #32 of 323 id: 13584 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888 date: None words: 17131 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., 30; Sab. Ch., 15; Mrs. A.P.G., 10. 25.00 Orford. keywords: 50.00; aid; association; churches; cong; cong ch; const; friend; fund; home; indian; l.m; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; school; second; soc; south; teachers; union; woman; work; year cache: 13584.txt plain text: 13584.txt item: #33 of 323 id: 13641 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888 date: None words: 16530 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., for 5.00 McIntosh, Ga. ----. Ch., for Mountain 30.00 White Work Andover. keywords: american; association; church; cong; cong ch; friend; god; home; indian; life; little; man; men; missionary; mrs; negro; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; tenn; time; union; white; work; year cache: 13641.txt plain text: 13641.txt item: #34 of 323 id: 13677 author: Drummond, Henry title: "Beautiful Thoughts" date: None words: 25151 flesch: 79 summary: What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 204. keywords: character; christ; christian; correspondence; death; environment; god; growth; january; kingdom; law; life; living; love; man; nature; religion; science; soul; spiritual; thing; world cache: 13677.txt plain text: 13677.txt item: #35 of 323 id: 13824 author: Leland, Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) title: The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. date: None words: 9825 flesch: 66 summary: If the righteous are said to enter into _life eternal_, so are the wicked to go away into _everlasting punishment_. Waterville, B. Chase, P.M. Bangor, Royal Clark, P.M. Bristol, Aaron Blaney, P.M. Vassalboro', Theodore S. Brown, Lubec, Moses Fuller, P.M. Bloomfield, Joseph Locke, P.M. Whitefield, David Crowell, P.M. Ellsworth, Joseph A. Wood, P.M. West Jefferson, F. Shepherd, P.M. South Berwick, Charles E. Norton. keywords: character; christ; cross; day; death; doctrines; foolishness; glory; god; gospel; heart; john; judgment; life; man; mercy; new; p.m.; preaching; salvation; truth; work; world cache: 13824.txt plain text: 13824.txt item: #36 of 323 id: 13889 author: Ranney, Dave title: Dave Ranney Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography date: None words: 36284 flesch: 92 summary: There are many men that are down and out now who had a chance to be splendid men. THE TESTIMONY OF A GAMBLER While I was sexton of the old Sea and Land Church I met among other men one who came to be a great friend. keywords: bowery; boy; day; drink; god; good; help; home; jim; life; man; meeting; men; mission; mother; night; place; ranney; thought; time; work; years cache: 13889.txt plain text: 13889.txt item: #37 of 323 id: 13907 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888 date: None words: 16879 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., 157.75; Central Cong. Ch., for Indian M., 4 22.00 Portland. keywords: aid; atlanta; children; class; cong; day; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; second; soc; south; student; talladega; tougaloo; union; university; white; woman; work; year cache: 13907.txt plain text: 13907.txt item: #38 of 323 id: 14017 author: Hoskins, Robert, Mrs. title: Clara A. Swain, M.D. date: None words: 6109 flesch: 65 summary: Dean Bodley, in one of her letters, gave the names of nine young women in the college who were preparing for medical missionary work, and Dr. Swain made a note of them, saying that she must write to them before their graduation. Miss Thoburn was appointed to educational work in Lucknow, and Dr. Swain found that she was to remain in Bareilly. keywords: home; india; life; miss; school; swain; time; work; years cache: 14017.txt plain text: 14017.txt item: #39 of 323 id: 14072 author: Tyler, James Endell title: Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary date: None words: 123329 flesch: 65 summary: When the conscience-struck Israelites felt that they had exposed themselves to the wrath of Almighty God, whose sovereign power, put forth at the prayer of Samuel, they then witnessed, distrusting the efficacy of their own supplication, and confiding in the intercession of that man of God, they implored him to intercede for them; and Samuel emphatically responded to their appeal, with an assurance of his earnestly undertaking to plead their cause with heaven: And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not. In tracing the history of the worship of saints and angels, we proceed (gradually, indeed, though by no {65} means at all periods, and through every stage, with equal rapidity,) from the earliest custom established and practised in the Church,--of addressing prayers to Almighty God alone for the sake of the merits of his blessed Son, the only Mediator and Intercessor between God and man,--to the lamentable innovation both of praying to God for the sake of the merits, and through the mediation of departed mortals, and of invoking those mortals themselves as the actual dispensers of the spiritual blessings which the suppliant seeks from above. keywords: almighty; angels; apostles; author; bellarmin; body; book; brethren; case; catholic; christ; christian; church; council; day; death; divine; doctrine; earth; evidence; example; faith; faithful; father; fellow; flesh; following; footnote; general; glory; god; good; grace; greek; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; holy virgin; honour; hope; inquiry; intercession; invocation; jesus; jesus christ; john; judgment; justin; letter; life; lord; lord god; love; man; martyr; mary; men; mercy; merits; mind; mother; nature; nos; offer; origen; paris; passage; people; place; point; power; practice; praise; prayer; present; principle; question; regard; roman; rome; saints; saviour; second; sentiments; service; son; soul; spirit; subject; testament; testimony; thee; things; thomas; thou; thy; time; truth; virgin; virgin mary; vol; word; works; worship; writers cache: 14072.txt plain text: 14072.txt item: #40 of 323 id: 14102 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 08, August, 1888 date: None words: 16843 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., _for Sch'p_, _Fisk U._ 15.00 Riceville. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 15.00 Otisfield. keywords: aid; american; association; atlanta; city; cong; cong ch; friend; fund; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; rev; room; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; talladega; tuition; union; university; woman; work; year cache: 14102.txt plain text: 14102.txt item: #41 of 323 id: 14188 author: Chidley, Howard J. (Howard James) title: Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls date: None words: 22101 flesch: 86 summary: Other boys and girls try to cut corners with the truth. I think one is pride, which makes you so conceited, because you live in a big house or have an automobile or fine clothes, that you will not speak to or play with other boys and girls who have not quite such fine things, although they may be just as bright and just as good as you. keywords: boy; boys; children; christ; church; day; girls; god; good; king; life; man; people; story; things; time; way; wrong; years cache: 14188.txt plain text: 14188.txt item: #42 of 323 id: 14237 author: Philips, Samuel title: The Christian Home As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc. date: None words: 89835 flesch: 73 summary: It is often said that the children of ministers and pious parents are usually more wicked than other children. Many children fight against these, prevent parents from performing their duties, and repel all the overtures of the Christian home, all the offers of the Spirit's baptism, abandoning the means of grace, refusing to assume the baptismal engagement taken for them by their parents; and thus, so far as they are concerned, undo and neutralize what their parents did for them. keywords: baptism; chapter; character; children; christian home; church; day; death; discipline; duty; education; example; faith; family; father; god; good; habits; hand; heart; heaven; holy; home; household; infant; influence; interests; law; life; little; lord; love; man; marriage; members; mind; mission; mother; nature; nursery; parents; power; prayer; relation; religion; right; shall; soul; spirit; state; sympathy; thee; thou; thy; training; way; world cache: 14237.txt plain text: 14237.txt item: #43 of 323 id: 14383 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888 date: None words: 36388 flesch: 75 summary: Ch., adl. ...2.00 Derby. Ch., by Mrs. David Hopkinson, for McIntosh, Ga. ...4.00 Essex Junction. keywords: africa; american; association; brother; chinese; christian; church; churches; committee; cong; conn; d.d; day; dea; esq; george; gift; god; hand; home; indian; john; l.m; land; life; man; mass; massachusetts; men; missionaries; missionary; missions; mrs; n.y; new; people; powell; r.i; race; rev; schools; secretary; society; south; states; time; way; woman; work; years cache: 14383.txt plain text: 14383.txt item: #44 of 323 id: 14411 author: Wright, Bruce S. (Bruce Simpson) title: The Children's Six Minutes date: None words: 19046 flesch: 93 summary: No part of my ministry has given me greater delight and satisfaction than the thought that I am helping to establish in the lives of many boys and girls that habit so indispensable to a steady Christian experience, namely--the habit of Sunday morning worship. By and by he came to a home where there were many boys. keywords: boy; boys; children; church; day; father; god; good; home; hymn; life; lord; man; memory; memory hymn; memory verse; people; time; verse cache: 14411.txt plain text: 14411.txt item: #45 of 323 id: 14572 author: Van Dyke, Henry title: The Spirit of Christmas date: None words: 5926 flesch: 82 summary: By cheering the downcast and adding sunshine to daylight, By welcoming strangers (poor shepherds or wise men), By keeping the music of the angels' song in this home, God help us every one to share the blessing of Jesus: In whose name we keep Christmas: There were three of the company who seemed to be leaders, distinguished not only by more radiant and powerful looks, but by a tone of authority in their speech and by the willing attention with which the others listened to them, as they talked of their earthly tasks, of the tangles and troubles, the wars and miseries that they had seen among men, and of the best way to get rid of them and bring sorrow to an end. keywords: angel; christmas; day; god; jesus; life; love; men; world cache: 14572.txt plain text: 14572.txt item: #46 of 323 id: 14596 author: Inge, William Ralph title: Christian Mysticism date: None words: 115033 flesch: 66 summary: [Footnote 8: The analogy used by Plotinus (_Ennead_ i. 6. 9) was often quoted and imitated: Even as the eye could not behold the sun unless it were itself sunlike, so neither could the soul behold God if it were not Godlike. Of course, it is not intended to _exclude_ distinctions, but to rise above them; but the process of abstraction, or subtraction, as it really is, can never lead us to the One.[173] The only possible unification with such an Infinite is the [Greek: atermôn nêgretos hupnos] of Nirvana.[174] Nearly all that repels us in mediæval religious life--its other-worldliness and passive hostility to civilisation--the emptiness of its ideal life--its maltreatment of the body--its disparagement of family life--the respect which it paid to indolent contemplation--springs from this one root. keywords: absolute; augustine; belief; body; book; century; christ; christian; christianity; church; come; consciousness; contemplation; course; darkness; day; death; desire; dionysius; divine; doctrine; eckhart; end; essence; est; evil; experience; eye; fact; faculties; faith; father; feeling; following; footnote; form; god; good; greek; ground; heart; heaven; history; holy; hope; human; idea; image; john; kind; knowledge; language; law; lecture; life; light; living; lord; love; man; manner; means; mediæval; men; mind; mysteries; mysticism; mystics; nature; object; passage; paul; personality; philosophy; place; plato; plotinus; point; power; present; process; real; reality; reason; religion; science; second; self; sense; sin; soul; spiritual; state; subject; symbols; system; tauler; teaching; thee; theology; theory; things; thought; time; truth; type; union; unity; use; value; view; visions; way; words; work; world cache: 14596.txt plain text: 14596.txt item: #47 of 323 id: 14629 author: Snowden, James H. (James Henry) title: A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas date: None words: 12931 flesch: 76 summary: Great men, as a rule, are not born in cities. These men did not follow cunningly devised fables when they made known unto us the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, for they were eye-witnesses of his glory. VI. keywords: angels; bethlehem; birth; child; christ; christmas; come; glory; god; gospel; jesus; light; men; new; peace; room; shepherds; world cache: 14629.txt plain text: 14629.txt item: #48 of 323 id: 14631 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890 date: None words: 15485 flesch: 82 summary: Notes American Missionary Association =============================== President, Rev. Wm. Ch., 15.00 for McIntosh, Ga. Saint Johnsbury. keywords: 5.00; = =; american; association; christian; church; cong; day; god; home; house; indian; meeting; men; missionary; mrs; new; people; president; rev; school; secretary; time; treasurer; union; woman; work; years cache: 14631.txt plain text: 14631.txt item: #49 of 323 id: 14716 author: Mahood, J. W. (John Wilmot) title: The Art of Soul-Winning date: None words: 13277 flesch: 82 summary: A writer in the _Epworth Era_ says: A college professor who was noted among his fellow-teachers for his habit of addressing young men upon their personal relations to Christ, was asked by one of his fellow-professors, 'Do they not resent your appeals as an impertinence?' The most remarkable movement among young men in this generation is the World's Christian Student Federation, organized by Mr. John R. Mott. keywords: christ; christian; church; day; god; life; man; meditation; memory; men; prayer; scripture; soul; spirit; study; work; young cache: 14716.txt plain text: 14716.txt item: #50 of 323 id: 14849 author: Steinmetz, Margaret Bird title: Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration date: None words: 69595 flesch: 89 summary: Alexander the Great born B. C. 356. For all sweet and pleasant passages in the great story of life men may well thank God; for leisure and ease and health and friendship may God make us truly and humbly grateful; but our chief song of thanksgiving must be always for our kinship with him, with all that such divinity of greatness brings of peril, hardship, toil, and sacrifice. keywords: almighty; april; august; born; care; charles; day; days; death; earth; emerson; eyes; faith; father; fear; friend; george; glory; god; good; grant; great; hand; happiness; hath; heart; heaven; help; henry; hold; hope; james; january; jehovah; john; joy; july; life; light; look; lord; lord god; love; loving; man; march; men; mind; morning; nature; need; new; peace; power; rest; robert; seek; sir; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; thee; things; thomas; thou; thoughts; thy; thy god; time; trust; truth; use; wait; way; william; wilt; wisdom; words; work; world; years cache: 14849.txt plain text: 14849.txt item: #51 of 323 id: 15042 author: Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw title: A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself date: None words: 13640 flesch: 57 summary: And I have found her a blessed partner, and we have never repented, tho' we have gone through many great troubles and difficulties. I continued in a most unhappy state for many days. keywords: day; friend; gentleman; god; good; home; master; mind; money; place; thought; time; wife cache: 15042.txt plain text: 15042.txt item: #52 of 323 id: 15082 author: Underhill, Evelyn title: The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day date: None words: 78958 flesch: 59 summary: But the extent in which we find and feel it is the measure of the fullness of spiritual life that we enjoy. Yet we have been given the secret, the law of spiritual life; and psychologists would agree that it represents too the most favourable of conditions for a full psychic life, the state in which we have access to all our sources of power. keywords: cap; character; consciousness; divine; education; eternal; experience; fact; feeling; footnote; form; god; good; group; heart; history; human; instinctive; levels; life; living; london; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; order; past; power; prayer; psychology; real; reality; religion; self; sense; seq; soul; spiritual; suggestion; things; thought; time; type; use; way; work; world cache: 15082.txt plain text: 15082.txt item: #53 of 323 id: 15231 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 02, February, 1890 date: None words: 16516 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., _for Teacher, Indian M._ ...50.00 Edgartown. Ch., _for Teacher, Indian M._ ...25.00 Chicago. keywords: agency; aid; ala; association; church; cong; conn; const; d.d; dakota; home; indian; l.m; ladies; mary; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n.y; new; north; ohio; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; talladega; teacher; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; west; woman; work cache: 15231.txt plain text: 15231.txt item: #54 of 323 id: 15362 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890 date: None words: 17923 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., _for Indian M._ ...46.49 Auburndale. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...21.00 New Preston. keywords: aid; ala; bbl; box; chinese; cong; friend; hill; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; n.c; negro; new; people; pleasant; rev; sab; sch; secretary; soc; south; south cong; student; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 15362.txt plain text: 15362.txt item: #55 of 323 id: 15379 author: Deane, David J. title: Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman date: None words: 40350 flesch: 68 summary: During the time that Cetewayo was in England Robert Moffat was much interested in him and paid him a visit. The record of a life like that of Robert Moffat, the South African missionary, can never be devoid of interest until all appreciation for noble deeds and patient endeavour becomes extinct in the heart of man. keywords: africa; africaner; cape; chief; country; day; days; god; griqua; home; illustration; journey; kuruman; left; life; mary; men; miles; missionaries; missionary; moffat; mrs; native; new; party; people; place; robert moffat; society; south; station; time; town; visit; way; work; years cache: 15379.txt plain text: 15379.txt item: #56 of 323 id: 15485 author: Adams, Nehemiah title: Catharine date: None words: 32768 flesch: 68 summary: In heaven things beautiful will not make us sad; nor will the remembrance of a past joy, which so inevitably has that effect upon us here. I was therefore like those who, on the first Christian Sabbath morning, departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, and did run to bring his disciples word. keywords: body; child; christ; day; dead; death; dying; faith; friends; god; good; grave; heaven; life; lord; love; man; nature; place; resurrection; soul; spirit; things; thy; time; world cache: 15485.txt plain text: 15485.txt item: #57 of 323 id: 15609 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 date: None words: 17634 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., Bbl. of Work for Sew. Dept., _Talladega C._ Hyde Park. Ch., Class No. 16, Bbl., _for Tougaloo U._ Springfield. keywords: aid; american; association; bbl; box; christian; church; cong; god; home; house; indian; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; south; student; tenn; time; tougaloo; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work; y.p.s.c.e cache: 15609.txt plain text: 15609.txt item: #58 of 323 id: 15647 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890 date: None words: 16051 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., _for Indian M._ ...103.51 Auburndale. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...25.00 Easthampton. keywords: aid; american; association; church; cong; education; fisk; home; house; indian; ladies; men; missionary; mrs; n.c; new; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work; y.p.s.c.e cache: 15647.txt plain text: 15647.txt item: #59 of 323 id: 15666 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894 date: None words: 17068 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., 10 ...160.00 Warren. Ch., 9.60; Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. keywords: american; association; boys; children; chinese; christian; church; city; cong; d.d; day; help; home; house; indian; little; meeting; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; president; rev; school; secretary; south; sunday; time; treasurer; union; woman; work; year cache: 15666.txt plain text: 15666.txt item: #60 of 323 id: 15800 author: Betts, George Herbert title: How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods date: None words: 62758 flesch: 67 summary: The teacher must first of all, therefore, be a sympathetic investigator in the laboratory of child life. Many investigators are giving their time and abilities to studying child nature and child religion. keywords: bible; child; child religion; children; church; church school; class; day; experience; god; good; instruction; interest; jesus; knowledge; lesson; lesson material; life; lives; material; matter; mind; pupils; questions; religion; school; story; subject; teacher; teaching; things; thought; time; truth; use; work cache: 15800.txt plain text: 15800.txt item: #61 of 323 id: 15822 author: Clark, Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) title: The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character date: None words: 25260 flesch: 62 summary: God has raised up some with great hearts, who have given bountifully in proportion to their means, to promote his cause. The dignity and responsibilities growing out of the fundamental truth before partially unfolded, that God, under the gospel, having given us general principles and laws touching benevolence, has left the amount and frequency or our contributions to our own decision. keywords: beneficence; benevolence; charity; christ; conscience; god; good; heart; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; principle; property; reason; selfishness; soul; spirit; system; work; world cache: 15822.txt plain text: 15822.txt item: #62 of 323 id: 15887 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 03, March, 1895 date: None words: 17317 flesch: 85 summary: Ch., 77.51; St. Lawrence St. Ch., 5. 272.51 Portland. Ch., _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 10.00 ------ 15.24 _Received for Dorchester Academy, McIntosh, Ga._: Athol. keywords: aid; ala; association; bbl; box; christmas; church; cong; const; friend; home; house; indian; l.m; miss; missionary; mountain; mrs; n.c; new; north; people; president; rev; sab; sch; secretary; soc; south; street; student; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; west; woman; work; y.p.s.c.e; years cache: 15887.txt plain text: 15887.txt item: #63 of 323 id: 15909 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890 date: None words: 16708 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., 38.57; The Cheerful Givers, by Miss Grace A. Sheldon, Treas., 10 48.57 South Weymouth. Central Cong, Ch., 142.02; Plymouth Ch., 53.16 195.18 Worcester. keywords: aid; association; christian; church; cong; fund; god; home; indian; ladies; life; men; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 15909.txt plain text: 15909.txt item: #64 of 323 id: 15914 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889 date: None words: 15698 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., _for Sch'p._, _Fisk U._ 50.00 Middlefield. Ch., _for Sch'p._, _Santee Indian Sch._ 17.07 Norwich. keywords: aid; association; building; churches; cong; fisk; friend; home; indian; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tenn; treasurer; union; williamsburg; woman; work; year cache: 15914.txt plain text: 15914.txt item: #65 of 323 id: 15923 author: Alexander, John L. title: The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys date: None words: 42820 flesch: 69 summary: A great deal of material has come from the pens of various writers on boy life in the last few years. Generous criticism of the Sunday school has been made by experts on boy life, but this generally has been nullified by the fact that the critics have had no adequate touch with the Sunday school or its problems--their bread-and-butter experience lay in another field. keywords: = =; activities; age; age boys; bible; boy; boy life; boys; christian; church; church life; church school; class; committee; community; conference; department; division; group; home; interest; man; meeting; men; organization; organized; school association; school life; school work; secondary; service; sex; social; study; sunday school; teacher; teen; teen age; things; time; week; work; years; | sunday; | | cache: 15923.txt plain text: 15923.txt item: #66 of 323 id: 16036 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890 date: None words: 17433 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., 3.37; Y.P.S.C.E., by Lucy M. Graham, Treas., 1.75 5.12 Brandon. Ch., 83.30; Miss Mary Calkins' S.S. Class, North Village Ch., 5. 238.30 Newton. keywords: aid; association; christian; church; cong; const; good; home; house; indian; l.m; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; williamsburg; woman; work; year; young cache: 16036.txt plain text: 16036.txt item: #67 of 323 id: 16060 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 02, February, 1891 date: None words: 16415 flesch: 80 summary: Minister_, Rev. James Brown, Alco, Ala. _Teachers_, Miss Mary E. McLane, New Haven, Conn. Sarah A. Dole, Oberlin, O. FORT PAYNE. Ch., adl., 2 ...27.00 Brewer. keywords: agency; aid; ala; association; bible; church; cong; conn; const; dakota; fisk; home; indian; l.m; ladies; mary; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n.c; n.y; new; north; ohio; president; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; talladega; teachers; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work; | | cache: 16060.txt plain text: 16060.txt item: #68 of 323 id: 16076 author: Fitch, Albert Parker title: Preaching and Paganism date: None words: 63589 flesch: 62 summary: That wherein a man cannot be equaled, says Confucius, is his work which other men cannot see. Our humility is not like that of Uriah Heep, a mean opinion of ourselves in comparison with other men. keywords: chief; christian; church; consciousness; doctrine; eternal; experience; expression; faith; feeling; footnote; god; good; heart; human; humanism; jesus; knowledge; law; life; man; men; mind; moral; naturalism; nature; need; new; old; order; place; power; preacher; preaching; present; reality; reason; religion; self; sense; sin; society; sort; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; understanding; values; way; world; worship cache: 16076.txt plain text: 16076.txt item: #69 of 323 id: 16083 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889 date: None words: 17026 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 18.00 Medina. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 Union City. keywords: 5.00; a.m.a; aid; association; christian; churches; cong; field; friend; god; hill; home; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; pleasant; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; talladega; tenn; union; woman; work; year cache: 16083.txt plain text: 16083.txt item: #70 of 323 id: 16084 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 02, February, 1889 date: None words: 15055 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., 13.31, _for Student Aid in the South_, and 12.64 _for Indian M._ 25.95 Elgin. Ch., _for Student Aid, Emerson Inst._ 7.00 Portland. keywords: aid; ala; american; association; bbl; church; cong; conn; const; d.d; fund; home; indian; l.m; ladies; mary; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n.y; new; rev; sab; sch; soc; south; student; talladega; teacher; tenn; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 16084.txt plain text: 16084.txt item: #71 of 323 id: 16103 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889 date: None words: 17729 flesch: 86 summary: Sch. of Immanuel Cong, Ch., _for Indian M._ 50.00 South Boston. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.00 Montclair. keywords: aid; ala; association; bbl; chinese; class; cong; const; day; friend; home; indian; l.m; ladies; men; miss; missionary; mountain; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tenn; union; white; woman; work cache: 16103.txt plain text: 16103.txt item: #72 of 323 id: 16104 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 04, April, 1889 date: None words: 16744 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.50 East Douglas. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._ Poughkeepsie. keywords: aid; american; bbl; box; church; class; cong; fisk; good; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; tenn; union; woman; work; years cache: 16104.txt plain text: 16104.txt item: #73 of 323 id: 16118 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889 date: None words: 16783 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., 27; Cong. Ch. of North Anson, 5, to const. keywords: american; association; cents; christ; christian; churches; cong; cong ch; congregational; friend; god; hall; hill; home; indian; little; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; pleasant; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; south; tenn; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 16118.txt plain text: 16118.txt item: #74 of 323 id: 16141 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 06, June, 1889 date: None words: 17110 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 Thomaston. Ch., 75c., Missionary Hen, 15c. 0.90 Pekin. keywords: aid; american; association; chinese; church; class; cong; cong ch; day; hall; home; indian; ladies; little; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; pleasant; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tenn; tuition; union; woman; work; year cache: 16141.txt plain text: 16141.txt item: #75 of 323 id: 16147 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 date: None words: 17471 flesch: 80 summary: Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 8.44 Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, by Mrs. W.P. Fairbanks, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: Burlington. Ch., (25, of which _for Student Aid, Talladega C._) 47.90 Holbrook. keywords: aid; american; association; bbl; christian; church; churches; class; cong; congregational; fund; home; indian; men; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; school; secretary; soc; south; state; student; talladega; tenn; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 16147.txt plain text: 16147.txt item: #76 of 323 id: 16153 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 08, August, 1889 date: None words: 15385 flesch: 80 summary: Ch., _for Storrs Sch._ 6.00 Manchester. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 19.53 Montpelier. keywords: aid; american; association; chinese; church; cong; fisk; friend; home; indian; ladies; miss; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; school; secretary; soc; student; talladega; tenn; time; tuition; union; woman; work; year cache: 16153.txt plain text: 16153.txt item: #77 of 323 id: 16154 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889 date: None words: 16746 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 Duxbury. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 Waterbury. keywords: american; association; christian; church; cong; const; day; god; good; home; indian; l.m; mary; miss; missionary; missions; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; secretary; south; union; white; woman; work; year cache: 16154.txt plain text: 16154.txt item: #78 of 323 id: 16159 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 date: None words: 15503 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., by Miss Elizabeth P. Chapin, Bbl. of C., Val. 50, _for Fort Berthold, Dak._ RHODE ISLAND, $32.00. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._, and to const. MISS EMMA PHELPS and MISS LOTTIE NORTON L.M's 70.00 Guilford. keywords: american; association; christian; church; churches; compromise; cong; day; god; home; indian; life; men; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; school; secretary; slavery; south; time; union; white; woman; work; year cache: 16159.txt plain text: 16159.txt item: #79 of 323 id: 16172 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 date: None words: 43913 flesch: 75 summary: Ch., 15.55, and Sab. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.12 Boston. keywords: american; american missionary; association; black; chinese; christian; church; churches; committee; cong; country; d.d; day; education; field; god; gospel; hand; home; indian; land; life; lord; man; meeting; men; millions; missionary; missionary association; mrs; negro; new; people; power; president; problem; race; report; rev; school; secretary; society; south; tenn; time; treasurer; union; white; woman; work; year cache: 16172.txt plain text: 16172.txt item: #80 of 323 id: 16216 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 08, August, 1896 date: None words: 16052 flesch: 83 summary: Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ ...50.00 Mechanic Falls. Ch., S.S. Infant Class, 5, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...15.00 Portland. keywords: aid; chinese; church; class; cong; cong ch; friend; fund; home; indian; jubilee; jun; mass; missionary; mrs; n.c; new; offering; offs; people; president; rev; sab; sch; school; schp; secretary; share; soc; south; treasurer; tuition; union; w.h.m.s; woman; work; y.p.s.c.e; year cache: 16216.txt plain text: 16216.txt item: #81 of 323 id: 16305 author: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph) title: Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks date: None words: 58116 flesch: 81 summary: [Illustration: Fig. 15] No right-thinking man has a good word for the business which makes good men into brutes, transforms honorable citizens into murderers, and brings many a prosperous family to rags and misery. It is a part of his duties to direct the work of many men in his department. keywords: book; boys; children; day; draw; drawing; earth; fig; girls; god; good; hands; heart; home; illustration; know; lesson; life; light; lines; look; love; man; men; mother; new; paper; people; picture; place; school; talk; things; thought; time; today; tree; use; way; words; work; world; years cache: 16305.txt plain text: 16305.txt item: #82 of 323 id: 16657 author: Mathews, Basil title: The Book of Missionary Heroes date: None words: 68295 flesch: 86 summary: The Tahitians stopped dancing and looked on with amazement, as the company of white men with their children knelt to pray and then read from the Bible. He knew that, but a little time before their visit, white men had come in a ship, had let down their boats and rowed to the men of the island, had pretended to make friends, and then, shooting some and capturing others, had sped back to the ship, carrying off the captives to work for them on the island of Fiji. keywords: africa; beach; boat; boy; boys; canoe; chief; christian; city; day; eyes; face; father; fire; footnote; forder; francis; friends; god; hand; heart; island; jesus; khama; king; lay; life; livingstone; mackay; man; martyn; men; miles; morning; new; night; paul; people; river; round; sabat; saw; sea; ship; time; village; water; way; white; work; world; years; young cache: 16657.txt plain text: 16657.txt item: #83 of 323 id: 16739 author: Drummond, Henry title: The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses date: None words: 33424 flesch: 83 summary: Men can be to other men as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land; much more Christ; much more Christ as Perfect Man; much more still as Savior of the world. Men are all mosaics of other men. keywords: away; boy; character; christ; christian; day; faith; god; good; joy; kingdom; know; life; love; man; men; nature; religion; rest; soul; things; time; way; words; work; world cache: 16739.txt plain text: 16739.txt item: #84 of 323 id: 16763 author: Smith, Wade C. (Wade Cothran) title: "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues date: None words: 39283 flesch: 83 summary: The way that big fellow had hurried on, leaving the runabout in trouble, was certainly not on the square, to say the least. Maybe you will smile--if it doesn't make you mad--but just wait, old fellow; give me time. keywords: away; big; boy; boys; christ; come; david; day; faith; father; feet; fellows; game; god; good; hand; help; jesus; king; kingdom; life; lord; man; master; means; men; paul; power; right; saul; saw; school; thing; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 16763.txt plain text: 16763.txt item: #85 of 323 id: 16779 author: Betson, Thomas title: A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men date: None words: 8003 flesch: 88 summary: [thou] here or see of ony relygyous persone or of ony other good persones / thynke alwaye that all is done & sayd for good entent though they seme [that] the pope may not assoyle them Not for thy holsom coûsell is [that] suche praye & gyue almesse & do other good dedes after theyr power keywords: amen; ben; blessyd; euer; god; good; grete; gyue; haue; herte; holy; ihesu; kepe; lorde; mynde; ony; shall; suche; theyr; thou; thy; thynke; whan; whiche; wyll cache: 16779.txt plain text: 16779.txt item: #86 of 323 id: 16863 author: Willson, Arabella M. title: Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons date: None words: 80750 flesch: 68 summary: Mr. Judson, considering himself sufficiently master of the language to preach publicly, decided to build a small zayat, on a much frequented road, where he could preach the gospel, and converse with any native who might desire it, and where Mrs. Judson could meet female inquirers, and hold a school for religious and other instruction. Mrs. Judson gave Moung Ing money that he might follow and procure a mitigation of this torture, instead of which, Mr. Judson was again thrown down, and the cords so tightened as almost to prevent respiration. keywords: america; ava; boardman; burman; cause; chapter; children; christian; country; day; days; dear; death; family; father; friends; god; good; government; health; heart; heathen; heaven; home; hope; house; husband; judson; language; letter; life; little; love; mind; missionaries; missionary; months; mother; mrs; native; new; night; place; poor; present; rangoon; religion; return; spirit; thought; thy; time; way; world; years cache: 16863.txt plain text: 16863.txt item: #87 of 323 id: 17002 author: Talmage, John Van Nest title: History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China date: None words: 24991 flesch: 67 summary: Kang-thau |The Church members at this Station are reckoned |to the First Church at Amoy. E-mng-kang|The Church members at this Station are reckoned |to the First Church at Amoy. Chiang-chiu| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Infants |Colporteurs| Churches and |baptized |sustained | Mission |during |by Native |Benevolent Stations. | ...... Khang-khau|The Church members at this Station are reckoned |to the Church at Ma-peng. Kang-thau |The Church members at this Station are reckoned |to the First Church at Amoy. E-mng-kang|The Church members at this Station are reckoned |to the First Church at Amoy. Chiang-chiu| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- keywords: amoy; care; church; churches; classis; english; members; missionaries; native; order; presbyterian church; subject; synod; work cache: 17002.txt plain text: 17002.txt item: #88 of 323 id: 17075 author: More, Thomas, Saint title: Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens date: None words: 104961 flesch: 74 summary: It is a tribulation to good men to feel in themselves the conflict of the flesh against the soul and the rebellion of sensuality against the rule and governance of reason--the relics that remain in mankind of old original sin, of which St. Paul so sore complaineth in his epistle to the Romans. To some that are good men, God sendeth wealth here also; and they give him great thanks for his gift, and he rewardeth them for the thanks too. keywords: anthony; body; cause; christ; comfort; counsel; cousin; death; devil; faith; fall; fear; folk; god; good; hath; heart; heaven; help; holy; kind; little; long; man; manner; matter; men; mind; pain; shall; soul; thing; time; tribulation; truth; uncle; vincent; wealth; world; worldly cache: 17075.txt plain text: 17075.txt item: #89 of 323 id: 17115 author: None title: Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society date: None words: 21218 flesch: 63 summary: | +----------------+--------+---------+---------+--------+---------+ |1. | ... keywords: brethren; christian; churches; converts; directors; god; great; india; islands; life; members; men; missionaries; missionary; missions; native; new; number; people; present; society; south; system; work; years; | +; | | cache: 17115.txt plain text: 17115.txt item: #90 of 323 id: 17126 author: Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson title: Five Happy Weeks date: None words: 6944 flesch: 90 summary: At this charge, little Johnnie colored up, but he stood his ground. There's the thea-thickness going back, little Mabel murmured. keywords: aunt; children; day; edith; johnnie; mabel; mamma; maria; miss cache: 17126.txt plain text: 17126.txt item: #91 of 323 id: 17222 author: Moon, James H. title: Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven by Scripture and History Confirmed by the Lives of Saints Who Were Never Baptized with Water date: None words: 14323 flesch: 70 summary: Matthew's version[1] is generally adduced to support water baptism. If we reject this view and assume that in Matthew[14] water baptism is intended to be understood, then we are compelled to believe that this interpretation of Matthew, with its formula for baptism, was conceived after the apostles' time; was unknown to them, and is a human conception and not a correct rendering of the teachings of Jesus. keywords: acts; apostles; baptism; christ; footnote; holy; holy spirit; john; jon; paul; spirit; vol; water; water baptism cache: 17222.txt plain text: 17222.txt item: #92 of 323 id: 17570 author: Cope, Henry Frederick title: Religious Education in the Family date: None words: 69796 flesch: 73 summary: The kind of home and the character of family life which will best serve the world and fulfil the will of God cannot be determined by sentiment or supposition. We are under the highest and sternest obligation to discover the laws of the family, those social laws which are determined by its nature and purpose, to find right standards for family life, to discriminate between the things that are permanent and those that are passing, between those we must conserve and those we must discard, to be prepared to fit children for the finer and higher type of family life that must come in the future. keywords: bible; book; boy; character; child life; children; church; day; development; education; family life; family worship; father; god; good; group; help; home; home life; ideals; lives; living; love; man; needs; new; opportunity; parents; people; persons; place; play; reading; religion; school; service; social; spiritual; stories; story; study; sunday; things; thought; time; training; use; work; world; young cache: 17570.txt plain text: 17570.txt item: #93 of 323 id: 1759 author: MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller title: The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa date: None words: 47620 flesch: 83 summary: Do you ever use a horse on your travels? asked young Mackay as they climbed upward. There were, besides, two smaller lecture-rooms, a museum filled with treasures collected from all over Formosa by Dr. Mackay and his students, a library, a bathroom, and a kitchen. keywords: away; barbarian; bok; chinese; church; day; eyes; formosa; god; great; head; heathen; hoa; home; house; jesus; kai; kai bok; little; mackay; man; men; missionary; new; night; north; people; place; students; tamsui; time; village; work; young cache: 1759.txt plain text: 1759.txt item: #94 of 323 id: 18001 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 04, April, 1895 date: None words: 16485 flesch: 85 summary: Y. P. S. C. E., by Marcia K. Gray, Ch. M. C., _for Student Aid, Blowing Rock. C. _for Greenwood, S. C._ Robinston. keywords: aid; ala; association; bbl; c. e.; cong; cong ch; indian; m. s.; miss; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; p. s.; rev; s. c.; s. s.; sab; sch; soc; south; student; talladega; tenn; tuition; woman; work cache: 18001.txt plain text: 18001.txt item: #95 of 323 id: 18248 author: Machar, Agnes Maule title: Lucy Raymond; Or, The Children's Watchword date: None words: 58328 flesch: 69 summary: Had she not been learning, Thou shalt not steal? And had not Miss Lucy explained to her that that meant taking anything, even the least, that was not her own? She was glad that she could not go for her lesson to-night, for she should have been ashamed to face Miss Lucy. keywords: alick; amy; bessie; child; children; church; cousin; father; ford; girl; god; good; heart; home; jesus; kind; life; little; love; lucy; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nelly; place; school; sophy; stella; sunday; things; thought; time; way; words; work cache: 18248.txt plain text: 18248.txt item: #96 of 323 id: 18329 author: Patton, William title: The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers date: None words: 8868 flesch: 74 summary: Waterville, H. Chase, P.M. Bangor, Royal Clark, P.M. Bristol, Aaron Blaney, P.M. Vassalboro', Theodore S. Brown. Lubec, Moses Fuller, P.M. Bloomfield, Joseph Locke, P.M. Whitefield, David Crowell, P.M. Ellsworth, Joseph A. Wood, P.M. West Jefferson, F. Shepherd, P.M. South Berwick, Charles E. Norton. keywords: cities; city; country; day; god; holy; influence; jerusalem; john; land; lord; men; new; p.m.; power; rev; spirit; thousands; work; world cache: 18329.txt plain text: 18329.txt item: #97 of 323 id: 18444 author: Brown, Theron title: The Story of the Hymns and Tunes date: None words: 124548 flesch: 76 summary: The multitude could be supplied with technical preaching and technical music for their religious wants, but they would not rise to the bait, whereas nothing so soon kindles their better emotions or so surely appeals to their better nature as even the humblest sympathetic hymn sung to a simple and stirring tune. Newton's hymn sung on the last evening of the year has its opportunity--and never fails to produce a solemn effect; but it is to the immortal music given to it in Samuel Webbe's Benevento that it owes its unique and permanent place. keywords: age; air; american; author; book; boston; century; charles; children; choral; chorus; christian; church; city; college; come; composer; country; cross; day; days; dear; death; divine; earth; england; english; faith; father; favorite; footnote; george; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; harmony; heart; heaven; heavenly; henry; high; holy; home; hope; hymn; jesus; john; joy; king; land; life; light; line; little; london; lord; love; man; march; mason; mass; meetings; melody; mind; missionary; morning; mrs; music; musician; new; o'er; original; people; place; poem; poet; power; praise; prayer; rest; rev; revival; robert; sacred; saviour; school; sea; second; service; set; sing; singing; sir; song; soul; sound; spirit; stanzas; story; sunday; sung; sweet; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tune; use; verse; voice; watts; way; wesley; william; words; work; world; worship; writer; years; young cache: 18444.txt plain text: 18444.txt item: #98 of 323 id: 18701 author: None title: Choice Readings for the Home Circle date: None words: 106514 flesch: 83 summary: By this time he had acquired convivial habits, and often drank freely with other young men of his age. There was a widow with her fatherless children; feeble age tottered on missing the strong arm of manhood on which it had been accustomed to lean; little children, motherless, walked with demure steps by their father's side; and there a lonely couple thinking of the little ones that used to follow them with dancing steps. keywords: away; bible; boy; children; church; day; days; dear; dollars; door; eyes; face; family; father; god; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; husband; john; kind; left; life; little; look; love; man; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; place; poor; prayer; read; room; sir; son; soul; things; thought; thy; time; tom; voice; want; way; wife; words; work; world; years; young cache: 18701.txt plain text: 18701.txt item: #99 of 323 id: 18930 author: Anderson, Rufus title: History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. date: None words: 99759 flesch: 63 summary: Mr. King took up his residence there in order to study the Arabic language. The journals of Mr. King, here and elsewhere, have a singularly dramatic interest, and were eagerly read, as they appeared in the Missionary Herald. keywords: american; arabic; armenian; beirût; bible; bishop; books; brethren; chapter; christian; church; churches; city; constantinople; country; course; day; days; death; druzes; english; god; good; gospel; government; grant; greece; greek; house; influence; king; language; letter; man; messrs; mission; missionaries; missionary; mountains; mrs; native; nestorians; new; number; oroomiah; pasha; patriarch; people; place; preaching; priest; protestant; religion; return; rev; school; scriptures; seminary; smith; syria; time; turkish; united; village; visit; way; wife; work; year cache: 18930.txt plain text: 18930.txt item: #100 of 323 id: 19134 author: Dawson, W. J. (William James) title: The Empire of Love date: None words: 24608 flesch: 70 summary: What is a Christian Church but a confraternity of such men and women? Love as such men know it is less a passion than a compact. keywords: christ; church; day; god; heart; jesus; justice; kind; life; lives; love; man; men; nature; people; sin; society; son; spirit; things; way; women; world; wrong cache: 19134.txt plain text: 19134.txt item: #101 of 323 id: 19193 author: Miller, J. R. (James Russell) title: Making the Most of Life date: None words: 50827 flesch: 82 summary: It unfits one for being a comforter of others, for giving cheer and inspiration, for touching other lives with good and helpful impulses. There may be thousands of other lives about us. keywords: beauty; blessing; character; children; christ; christian; comfort; day; days; duty; god; good; hand; heart; help; home; know; life; lives; lord; love; man; men; need; people; place; self; sorrow; soul; things; time; way; words; work; world; years cache: 19193.txt plain text: 19193.txt item: #102 of 323 id: 19308 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field date: None words: 135062 flesch: 57 summary: I confess that I began them with the unwilling belief that greater works had been effected by persons outside the pale of the Church than by those within; but as I have gone on, the conviction has grown on me that even though the individuals were often great men, their works lacked that permanency and grasp that Church work, as such, has had. Perhaps, in spite of his kindness, Mrs. Carey had to endure the disasters common to the wives of struggling great men: for William Carey's shoes were not equal to his sermons, and his congregation were too poor even to raise means to clothe him decently. keywords: bishop; brother; burmese; calcutta; captain; carey; cause; chief; children; christian; christianity; church; college; company; converts; country; course; day; days; death; eliot; england; english; faith; family; father; friends; gardiner; god; good; government; governor; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; indians; john; journey; judson; king; language; leave; letter; life; lord; man; marsden; martyn; means; meantime; men; mind; minister; mission; missionaries; missionary; months; mrs; natives; new; night; party; people; place; poor; power; present; rangoon; religion; return; river; school; serampore; service; set; ship; society; spirit; state; sunday; swartz; thought; time; visit; way; white; wife; williams; words; work; years cache: 19308.txt plain text: 19308.txt item: #103 of 323 id: 19365 author: Johannsen, Anna Magdalena title: Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women date: None words: 28013 flesch: 82 summary: Mr. Lü was sitting there, meekly listening, and evidently on his wife's side, but not opening his lips, while Mrs. Lü could not control her voice for anger. Mr. Lü had tried earnestly to lead him into the way of salvation; and after Mrs. Lü had yielded to the Lord, she joined her husband in his efforts, and they soon had the joy of seeing him on the Lord's side. keywords: bride; christ; day; god; good; heart; home; husband; kucheng; life; lord; man; mrs; pearl; time; way; wife; work; years cache: 19365.txt plain text: 19365.txt item: #104 of 323 id: 1959 author: Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) title: The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing date: None words: 38387 flesch: 70 summary: This great sorrow has stricken us, piercing through bone and marrow, in order to reach our hearts, and touch the springs of spiritual life within us, that henceforth, we may look upon all sorrow in a new light. Thus, too, does more life come to me from contacts in the common round of action. keywords: child; christ; communion; dead; death; disappointment; earth; experience; fact; faith; father; god; good; heart; human; know; life; light; like; little; love; man; men; nature; religion; sorrow; soul; spiritual; things; thought; time; work; world cache: 1959.txt plain text: 1959.txt item: #105 of 323 id: 19597 author: Burt, Nathaniel Clark title: National Character A Thanksgiving Discourse Delivered November 15th, 1855, in the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church date: None words: 6299 flesch: 68 summary: The _word_ nation signifies a body of men descended from the same progenitor,--those having community of birth. When shall Christian nations become capable of a Christian transaction? keywords: character; christian; citizens; country; god; government; history; life; nations; religion; state; view cache: 19597.txt plain text: 19597.txt item: #106 of 323 id: 19830 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist date: None words: 76514 flesch: 90 summary: Note what Jesus Says. Young man! keywords: boy; child; children; christ; christian; day; father; friends; god; good; heaven; home; house; jesus; lady; life; like; lord; love; man; meeting; men; moody; mother; night; people; son; story; thought; time; want; way; word; work; years cache: 19830.txt plain text: 19830.txt item: #107 of 323 id: 19939 author: Anderson, Rufus title: History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. date: None words: 121357 flesch: 68 summary: --Relations of the Jews to Christ's Kingdom.--The Practical Inference.--Death of Mr. Maynard.--New Missionary.--The People without Education.--Their Capacity for Self-righteousness.--Literary Labors of Mr. Schauffler.--A New Missionary.--Insalubrity of the Climate.--Dangerous Sickness.--Death of Mrs. Morgan.--Removal to Constantinople.--Salonica partially reoccupied.--Labors among the Smyrna Jews.--Labors of Mr. Schauffler.--Why the Mission was relinquished.--Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Peabody returned to their native land, after a faithful service of nineteen years. keywords: aintab; american; april; arabic; armenian; bible; board; book; brethren; chapter; children; christian; church; churches; city; community; constantinople; copies; day; days; death; diarbekir; english; evangelical; field; girls; god; good; gospel; government; greek; harpoot; house; influence; jews; july; june; labors; language; life; long; lord; man; meeting; members; men; mission; missionaries; missionary; mrs; native; new; nov; number; pages; pastor; people; place; prayer; preaching; progress; protestant; pupils; read; return; sabbath; school; scriptures; seminary; sept; society; spirit; station; support; testament; time; truth; turkey; turkish; village; way; women; work; years; young cache: 19939.txt plain text: 19939.txt item: #108 of 323 id: 20289 author: Howe, Reuel L. title: Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. date: None words: 39705 flesch: 67 summary: Instead, we should respond to the Spirit's prompting to keep our denominational loyalties subject to our loyalty to Him, in order that we may be open to whatever form of church life and action the Spirit may indicate for our generation. The next member of the group who spoke up was Mrs. Strait, and she voiced for herself and for millions of other church people the moralistic understanding of the faith. keywords: child; children; christ; christian; church; communication; experience; god; human; life; love; man; meaning; need; people; person; power; relationship; sense; spirit; way; work; world cache: 20289.txt plain text: 20289.txt item: #109 of 323 id: 20312 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful date: None words: 25630 flesch: 84 summary: Members of Christ, children of God, heirs of the kingdom of heaven, heirs of a Hope undying, pure, that will never fade away, you have a right given you by the promise and oath of Almighty God Himself, to hope for yourselves, for your neighbours, for this poor distracted world for ever and ever: a right to believe that there is an everlasting day of justice, and peace, and happiness in store for the whole world, and that you, if you will, may have your share in that glorious sunrise which shall never set again. Each heart knows its own bitterness; each soul has its own sorrow; each man's life has its dark days of storm and tempest, when all his joys seem blown away by some sudden blast of ill-fortune, and the desire of his eyes is taken from him, and all his hopes and plans, all which he intended to do or to enjoy, are hid with blinding mist, so that he cannot see his way before him, and knows not whither to go, or whither to flee for help; when faith in God seems broken up for the moment, when he feels no strength, no purpose, and knows not what to determine, what to do, what to believe, what to care for; when the very earth seems reeling under his feet, and the fountains of the abyss are broken up. keywords: christ; day; death; earth; father; god; good; heaven; life; lord; love; man; sermons; thee; thou; thy; world cache: 20312.txt plain text: 20312.txt item: #110 of 323 id: 20402 author: Beard, Charles title: Beside the Still Waters A Sermon date: None words: 3476 flesch: 56 summary: If you, my brethren, have any stoutness of heart to resist mean temptation, if you are conscious of any uplifting of desire towards better and more stable things than form the common stuff of life, if any quiet trust in God sustains you amid the world's chance and change, to what do you owe them? For there the charities of life may be all astir, and the quick affections thence make their far journeys of sympathy; thither may come the workers, now for the refreshment of peace, now for the balm of consolation, now, again, for the inspiration of a purer dutifulness; while over all constantly broods the presence of God, who gives and who denies the power of active service; who bids this child toil and struggle, while from that He asks only that she should stand and wait. keywords: god; life; men; place; work; world cache: 20402.txt plain text: 20402.txt item: #111 of 323 id: 20428 author: Adams, Nehemiah title: Bertha and Her Baptism date: None words: 58755 flesch: 72 summary: I hope, my dear daughter, that you and Percival, as private Christians, will do good to your own souls, and to the souls of baptized children, and to their parents, by making it one of your private rules to pray in secret, on the Sabbath, for every child whose baptism you witness. They discuss the question, What shall be done with baptized children, who, on arriving at years of understanding, refuse to enter into covenant with God? keywords: abraham; baptism; children; christ; christian; church; come; covenant; day; faith; father; feelings; god; good; infant; infant baptism; little; lord; love; man; members; mother; mrs; new; ordinance; parents; pastor; people; religion; seal; subject; things; time; water; way cache: 20428.txt plain text: 20428.txt item: #112 of 323 id: 20446 author: Newman, John Philip title: "America for Americans!" The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon date: None words: 7879 flesch: 68 summary: That convention, composed of fifty-five men, and such men! South of this zone are Egypt and Arabia and India, and other nations that have lived in splendor. keywords: american; applause; church; country; day; foreign; men; millions; nations; vote; wealth; years cache: 20446.txt plain text: 20446.txt item: #113 of 323 id: 20476 author: Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf) title: Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination date: None words: 123867 flesch: 91 summary: Thou God of hope, to thee we bow, 782 Thou God of truth and love, 912 Thou, Lord, by mortal eyes unseen, 253 Thou, Lord, by strictest search hast known, 140 Thou must go forth alone, my soul, 537 Thou power supreme, whose mighty scheme, keywords: blest; c. m.; care; christ; christian; come; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; heavenly; high; holy; home; hope; hour; jesus; joy; king; know; l. m.; life; light; lord; love; m. anonymous; m. doddridge; m. m.; m. watts; man; meet; mercy; o god; o lord; o thou; o'er; peace; power; praise; prayer; rest; rise; s. m.; sacred; saviour; shall; sin; sing; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thine; thou; throne; thy; thy god; tis; truth; voice; way; word cache: 20476.txt plain text: 20476.txt item: #114 of 323 id: 20478 author: Beard, Charles title: Strong Souls A Sermon date: None words: 3171 flesch: 70 summary: p. (Revised Version): I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. Life is a gift of very unequal distribution. keywords: christ; god; life; living; men cache: 20478.txt plain text: 20478.txt item: #115 of 323 id: 2056 author: Smith, George title: The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary date: None words: 145112 flesch: 61 summary: On his voyage to India Carey had deliberately contemplated the time when the Society he had founded would influence not only Asia, but Africa, and he would supply the peoples of Asia with the Scriptures in their own tongues. Dr. Carey once said to his nephew, whose design he seems to have suspected, Eustace, if after my removal any one should think it worth his while to write my Life, I will give you a criterion by which you may judge of its correctness. keywords: account; baptist; bengali; bible; books; brethren; british; brother carey; calcutta; carey; cause; century; character; children; christian; church; churches; college; come; company; council; country; day; days; death; east; england; english; family; father; friend; fuller; garden; general; god; good; gospel; government; governor; half; heart; heathen; hindoo; history; home; hope; house; india; influence; john; knowledge; krishna; language; left; letter; life; lord; love; marshman; master; men; mind; missionaries; missionary; missions; native; new; number; old; people; place; power; prayer; present; press; public; ryland; sanskrit; school; second; self; serampore; set; society; son; spirit; state; testament; things; thirty; thomas; thought; time; translation; ward; way; wife; william carey; work; world; years; years carey; young cache: 2056.txt plain text: 2056.txt item: #116 of 323 id: 20711 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife date: None words: 43506 flesch: 86 summary: Man would never have even dreamed of a Living God had not that Living God been a reality, who did not leave the creature to find his Creator, but stooped from heaven, at the very beginning of our race, to find His creature. Of all the blessings which the study of Nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this, that the farther he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, which Spenser saw and described in his great poem, the more he learns the awful and yet comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to One greater, wiser, lovelier than he; and as he stands, silent with awe, amid the pomp of Nature's ever-busy rest, hears as of old, The Word of the Lord God walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day. keywords: blessed; chap; christ; day; death; earth; faith; father; god; good; heart; heaven; human; let; letters; life; lord; love; man; memories; men; mind; nature; right; saints; self; sermons; soul; spirit; things; thou; time; work; world; years cache: 20711.txt plain text: 20711.txt item: #117 of 323 id: 20747 author: Bancroft, Jane M. (Jane Marie) title: Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America date: None words: 58022 flesch: 64 summary: All the authorities on deaconess work agree that the office of the parish deaconess is the crown and glory of the diaconate, and approaches most nearly the type of the deaconesses of the early Church. The story of deaconess work in Austria is an interesting one, and is told by Miss Williams in a recent number of _The Churchman_, from which the following extracts are taken: The Protestants of Gallneukirchen were first formed into an independent parish in the year 1872, and it is the only one lying between the Danube and the Bohemian frontier. keywords: care; cause; chapter; children; christian; church; city; classes; conference; connection; day; deaconesses; duties; england; fliedner; german; girls; god; good; home; hospital; house; institution; kaiserswerth; life; little; london; mildmay; mission; mother; new; number; office; order; parish; pastor; people; place; present; room; school; service; sick; sisters; society; time; training; women; work; years cache: 20747.txt plain text: 20747.txt item: #118 of 323 id: 21323 author: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir title: What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider date: None words: 5481 flesch: 74 summary: We all know today men of inferior attainments and lives who not only know themselves to be infallible, but haven't the grace to leave even such men alone, and who have interpreted their call to the ministry as simply a mandate to set every one else intellectually right. His message is bearing fruit in the hearts of many men whom the-necessary-to-define-your-mental-attitude school would rule out of the kingdom. keywords: christ; church; faith; god; love; man; men; work; world cache: 21323.txt plain text: 21323.txt item: #119 of 323 id: 21351 author: Jackson, Percival title: The Prayer Book Explained date: None words: 46505 flesch: 80 summary: The verse _Remember not Lord_ &c. was introduced at the beginning of the same Service, as an Anthem to Psalm cxliii. And if the prophet David did think that the very meeting of men together and their accompanying one another to the House of God should make the bond of their love insoluble, and tie them in a league of inviolable amity (Ps. lv. 14); how much more may we judge it reasonable to hope that the like effects may grow _in each of the people towards other_, in them keywords: acts; bible; book; chapter; christ; church; collects; creed; day; evening; father; form; god; great; holy; hymn; iii; jesus; john; lessons; life; litany; lord; man; morning; order; people; praise; prayer; psalms; second; service; time; use; words; worship cache: 21351.txt plain text: 21351.txt item: #120 of 323 id: 21595 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 02, February, 1896 date: None words: 17443 flesch: 82 summary: Apples, _for King's Mountain, N. C._ Saint Johnsbury. A. C. Hitchcock, _for Wilmington, N. C._ 5.00 Westminster. keywords: a.m.; aid; ala; bbl; c. e.; central; cong; d.d; george; indian; ladies; m. s.; mary; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; ohio; orleans; p. s.; rev; s. c.; s. s.; sab; sch; soc; south; student; talladega; teachers; tenn; tuition; west; woman; work cache: 21595.txt plain text: 21595.txt item: #121 of 323 id: 21722 author: Bridges, Robert title: A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing date: None words: 13703 flesch: 62 summary: Augustin lived before what we reckon the very beginnings of modern music, with nothing to entice and delight his ears in the choir but the simplest ecclesiastical chant and hymn-tune sung in unison. It is possible that such music would not have had any ethical significance to him, bad or good. keywords: book; church; english; good; hymns; melodies; melody; music; nos; rhythm; singing; song; time; tunes; use; words cache: 21722.txt plain text: 21722.txt item: #122 of 323 id: 21774 author: Underhill, Evelyn title: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People date: None words: 33147 flesch: 56 summary: So doing patiently, day after day, constantly recapturing the vagrant attention, ever renewing the struggle for simplicity of sight, you will at last discover that there is something within you--something behind the fractious, conflicting life of desire--which you can recollect, gather up, make effective for new life. Now the expression of vision, of reality, of beauty, at an artist's hands--the creation of new life in all forms--has two factors: the living moulding creative spirit, and the material in which it works. keywords: attention; consciousness; contemplation; existence; experience; fact; form; god; human; life; living; love; man; mind; mystics; new; reality; self; sense; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; universe; vision; world cache: 21774.txt plain text: 21774.txt item: #123 of 323 id: 21952 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 03, March, 1896 date: None words: 19489 flesch: 86 summary: Ch., _for Gregory Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 11.50 Winslow. Ch., Box C., _for Saluda, N. C._ Lebanon. keywords: aid; bbl; c. e.; chinese; cong; friend; home; indian; m. s.; miss; missionary; mon; moorhead; mrs; n. c.; new; president; rev; rock; s. c.; s. cong; s. s.; sab; sch; secretary; soc; south; student; talladega c.; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; w. m.; woman; work cache: 21952.txt plain text: 21952.txt item: #124 of 323 id: 21987 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year date: None words: 39337 flesch: 86 summary: 13. The publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. keywords: children; christ; church; david; day; evil; eyes; father; god; good; heart; heaven; king; life; lord; man; men; people; sermon; sin; son; sunday; thee; things; thou; time; trinity; way; work; world cache: 21987.txt plain text: 21987.txt item: #125 of 323 id: 22098 author: Bates, Joseph title: The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment date: None words: 21761 flesch: 79 summary: Hear him--he says the seventh day is the Sabbath; it was so at that time, (in the beginning) and for many ages after, but it is not said, that it always _shall be_--it is the _Sabbath_ day which we are to remember; and so at the close, it is the _Sabbath_ which was hallowed and blessed and not the _seventh_ day. the Sabbath day to keep it holy_; (which day is it Lord?) keywords: commandments; day; day sabbath; days; god; holy; israel; jesus; law; lord; moses; page; paul; seventh; time; week; years cache: 22098.txt plain text: 22098.txt item: #126 of 323 id: 22189 author: Trotter, I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) title: Parables of the Cross date: None words: 7386 flesch: 81 summary: Life leads on to new death, and new death back to life again. We were created for more than our own spiritual development; reproduction, not mere development, is the goal of matured being--reproduction in other lives. keywords: death; god; life; power; soul; things; way; world cache: 22189.txt plain text: 22189.txt item: #127 of 323 id: 22331 author: Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas) title: The Chocolate Soldier Or, Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity date: None words: 5945 flesch: 86 summary: He consulted not with flesh and blood, he obeyed not men but God. God adulterated with men entails the weakness of iron and clay--Chocolate--brittleness! keywords: chocolate; christ; christian; david; god; jesus; john; man; men; soldier cache: 22331.txt plain text: 22331.txt item: #128 of 323 id: 22422 author: Warner, Anna Bartlett title: Tired Church Members date: None words: 14594 flesch: 87 summary: This is recreation, true and sweet; for of all the refreshments from one's own toil and sorrow, I think ministering to other people is about the best. You bore yourselves and other people with much practising, and when you have learned, as you think, then you drop it all. keywords: christian; church; dancing; day; god; good; life; lord; men; music; people; rest; theatre; things; time; way; work; world cache: 22422.txt plain text: 22422.txt item: #129 of 323 id: 22432 author: Trotter, I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) title: Parables of the Christ-life date: None words: 10803 flesch: 78 summary: It is like our annuals on a large scale, for it flowers and seeds but once in its career, though that numbers more years than these can count weeks. So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. keywords: christ; come; death; flesh; god; life; look; power; seed; spirit; things; vessel; work cache: 22432.txt plain text: 22432.txt item: #130 of 323 id: 22482 author: Shepherd, Ambrose title: Men in the Making date: None words: 44433 flesch: 75 summary: I have known fathers and mothers who had the reputation of being good men and women, sternly forbid their daughters to engage themselves to young men who had most things to recommend them, except too much means; and I have known them encourage the advances of men whose past and present should have excluded them from any decent home--only because these men had money. There is always room for a book to young men; whether or not the book I now offer them is worth its room, is a matter about which I, possibly, am not the best judge. keywords: christ; day; evil; god; good; hope; human; law; life; love; man; means; men; nature; need; people; place; power; question; right; self; sin; success; things; time; truth; way; work; world; wrong; years cache: 22482.txt plain text: 22482.txt item: #131 of 323 id: 23096 author: Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) title: And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses date: None words: 68689 flesch: 80 summary: even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Under his direction simultaneous evangelistic campaigns have been held in many of the leading cities of the land, and the Christian Church and the world have had an experience of a new, aggressive and emphatic evangelism that has stirred the Church, revived Christian service and been the means under God of turning thousands to a life of allegiance to Jesus Christ. keywords: bible; boy; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; father; god; hand; home; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; lost; man; men; mother; people; power; prayer; read; second; sin; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; verse; way; word; work; years cache: 23096.txt plain text: 23096.txt item: #132 of 323 id: 23123 author: Hodson, Thomas title: Old Daniel date: None words: 17305 flesch: 75 summary: That was not only a bitter day to good old Daniel, but _a terrible blow to the cause of Christ in Goobbe_. He replied, `Yes, great joy.' Mr Hocken has given the following account: On Saturday evening, October 25th, Mr Haigh, Mrs Hocken and myself went from the Mission-house to see old Daniel. keywords: chapter; daniel; day; god; goobbe; house; idol; man; mission; missionaries; people; priest; temple; time; village; worship; years cache: 23123.txt plain text: 23123.txt item: #133 of 323 id: 23241 author: Jowett, John Henry title: My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year date: None words: 81835 flesch: 88 summary: 1-11. Goliath seemed to have everything on his side _except_ God. From this, and all other sinful folly, good Lord, redeem us! keywords: = =; children; christ; day; death; evil; eyes; faith; fear; fire; glory; god; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; home; house; jesus; john; king; life; light; little; look; lord; lord god; love; man; men; mind; need; new; open; people; place; power; presence; road; self; sin; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; work; world cache: 23241.txt plain text: 23241.txt item: #134 of 323 id: 23476 author: Sumner, George Henry title: Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages date: None words: 15872 flesch: 65 summary: 3. Be it further enacted that no such notice of holding a Vestry shall be affixed on the principal door of such Church or Chapel unless the same shall previously have been signed by a Churchwarden of the Church or Chapel, or by the Rector, Vicar, or Curate of such parish, or by an Overseer of the Poor of such parish; but that every notice so signed shall be affixed on or near to the principal door of such Church or Chapel. APPENDIX III. 58 Geo. It was also decided at the meeting before referred to that this charge might be defrayed out of the offertory or other voluntary collections for Church purposes in any parish or ecclesiastical district. keywords: act; burial; cap; case; church; churchwardens; churchyard; duties; incumbent; law; office; parish; parishioners; present; sec; vestry; vict cache: 23476.txt plain text: 23476.txt item: #135 of 323 id: 23772 author: Donne, John title: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel date: None words: 73900 flesch: 72 summary: Let not one bring learning, another diligence, another religion, but every one bring all; and as many ingredients enter into a receipt, so may many men make the receipt. But let me stop, my God, and consider; will not this look like a piece of art and cunning, to convey into the world an opinion that I were more particular in his care than other men? keywords: bed; body; christ; church; day; days; dead; death; die; disease; donne; earth; fear; glory; god; good; grave; hand; hast; hath; health; heart; heaven; holy; house; king; life; lord; man; men; mercy; nature; o lord; physician; place; prayer; present; says; sickness; sin; sins; sir; sleep; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; voice; way; wilt; world cache: 23772.txt plain text: 23772.txt item: #136 of 323 id: 25891 author: Müller, George title: Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives date: None words: 32465 flesch: 73 summary: The Moody Press 153 Institute Place Chicago I never remember, in all my Christian course, a period now (in March, 1895) of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever SINCERELY and PATIENTLY sought to know the will of God by _the teaching of the Holy Ghost_, through the instrumentality of the _Word of God_, but I have been ALWAYS directed rightly. But if _honesty of heart_ and _uprightness before God_ were lacking, or if I did not _patiently_ wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred _the counsel of my fellow men_ to the declarations of _the Word of the living God_, I made great mistakes. keywords: answer; children; come; day; faith; god; hand; heart; help; house; lord; means; müller; orphan; prayer; time; trust; work; years cache: 25891.txt plain text: 25891.txt item: #137 of 323 id: 25906 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 09, September, 1896 date: None words: 15941 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., _for Indian M., Santee, Neb._, 37.50; Rev. J. M. Whiton, Ph.D., _for Whiton Prizes, Talladega C._, 15; Bushwick Av. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. Association, by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.: Plainfield. keywords: 50.00; aid; american; association; church; cong; fund; jubilee; missionary; mrs; new; rev; sab; school; share; student; talladega; time; woman; work; year cache: 25906.txt plain text: 25906.txt item: #138 of 323 id: 25958 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 02, June, 1898 date: None words: 30076 flesch: 81 summary: Burlington, Ladies' S., Clothing, etc., _for Greenwood, S. C._ Castleton, C., 3.10; C. E., 3. Vineland, Friends, Clothing, _for Savannah, Ga._ Westfield, C. E., _for S. A., Charleston, S. C._, 11.25. keywords: acad; ala; c. e.; chinese; clothing; cts; estate; fisk; freight; friend; hill; home; indian; l. m.; life; m. a.; m. c.; m. s.; marion; miss; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; park; people; president; rev; rock; s. a.; s. c.; sch; school; second; secretary; soc; south; tenn; tougaloo; treas; treasurer; union; west; woman; work; year cache: 25958.txt plain text: 25958.txt item: #139 of 323 id: 26022 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 01, January, 1896 date: None words: 18090 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., 6; W. M. Soc., 10., by Rev. F. W. Link 16.00 Madison. Ch., 5; C. E. Soc., 2, by Ellen Walker, Ch. Treas. 7.00 Kalamazoo. keywords: aid; association; c. e.; central; chinese; cong; home; m. s.; missionary; mrs; new; orleans; president; rev; s. c.; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; student; tenn; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 26022.txt plain text: 26022.txt item: #140 of 323 id: 2603 author: Judy, J. M. title: Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes date: None words: 34604 flesch: 74 summary: In addition to love, without which a true home can not exist, we select four essential requisites to make home life useful and happy. Games of skill, innocent, instructive, and entertaining, may be used to make home life more attractive. keywords: books; children; christ; church; country; dance; dancing; day; drink; family; feet; friend; friendship; gambling; god; good; heart; history; home; life; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; person; place; reading; saloon; social; soul; theater; thought; time; tobacco; way; work; world; years; young cache: 2603.txt plain text: 2603.txt item: #141 of 323 id: 26033 author: Goforth, Rosalind title: How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time date: None words: 32298 flesch: 83 summary: The first indication we had of coming danger was when our mail carriers running to and from Tientsin were stopped and our mails returned. Hints had been given us of coming danger, but that was all; none spoke of what all felt,--that we were probably going to our death. keywords: answer; children; china; christ; come; day; days; god; goforth; help; home; husband; life; lord; man; mission; need; people; power; prayer; time; way; work; years cache: 26033.txt plain text: 26033.txt item: #142 of 323 id: 26062 author: Dibble, Sheldon title: Thoughts on Missions date: None words: 45024 flesch: 70 summary: Should such men go forth, and evince by a prayerful, godly, and disinterested deportment and course of procedure, that their sole aim was to promote the happiness of the people, both temporal and eternal; there are many barbarous countries where they would readily acquire much influence, and be able in a gradual manner, by friendly and prudent suggestions to the rulers, and in other ways, to effect changes that would be productive of incalculable good. Such men too might do good, by exhibiting in themselves and in their families habits of industry, domestic peace and strict economy; by holding up the hands of Christ's ministers, and by scattering the word of life in their appropriate spheres. keywords: children; christ; christian; church; day; enterprise; god; good; gospel; heathen; home; jesus; life; look; means; men; millions; ministers; missionaries; missionary; nations; people; present; saviour; souls; spirit; time; way; work; world cache: 26062.txt plain text: 26062.txt item: #143 of 323 id: 26079 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 03, September, 1898 date: None words: 28596 flesch: 79 summary: Beverly, Mrs. H. O. Woodbury, Clothing, _for Saluda, N. C._ Boston, Central, 454.38; Union, C. E., _for Mountain Work_, 75; Jos. A. Brown, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 25; C. O. Norcross, _for Cappahosic, Va._, 1; Mrs. R. H. Allen, Papers, _for Andersonville, Ga._; King's Daughters, Books, _for Marshallville, Ga._ Dorchester, Second, A Friend, 15; Second, Extra Cent-a-Day Band, 5; Miss S. J. Elder, _for S. A., Talladega C._, 4.55. Boxford, Woman's M. Soc., Clothing and Sundries, _for Talladega C._ Braintree, First, S., 5. Brookline, Harvard, Miss E. A. Tillinghast's S. Class, _for S. A., Lincoln Acad., N. C._, 10. keywords: ala; american; association; c. e.; cappahosic; chinese; church; city; clothing; estate; fisk; friend; fund; hill; home; m. s.; men; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; people; president; rev; s. a.; s. c.; sch; school; second; secretary; south; talladega; tenn; treasurer; union; woman; work; year; young cache: 26079.txt plain text: 26079.txt item: #144 of 323 id: 26097 author: Doddridge, Philip title: Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old date: None words: 12565 flesch: 76 summary: GOD _in all,--chearfully to subscribe to his Will,--cordially to approve it as merciful and gracious,--so as to be able to say, as the pious and excellent Archbishop of _Cambray_ did, when his Royal Pupil, and the Hopes of a Nation were taken away_[+], _ Death_, that inexorable Destroyer, _shall be swallowed up in Victory_[f], while we and ours surround the Throne with everlasting Hallelujahs, and own, with another Evidence than we can now perceive; with another Spirit than we can now express, that _All was indeed well_. keywords: child; children; friends; god; good; hath; heart; hope; life; like; lord; love; parent; reason; thou cache: 26097.txt plain text: 26097.txt item: #145 of 323 id: 26114 author: Vogt, Paul L. (Paul Leroy) title: Church Cooperation in Community Life date: None words: 29630 flesch: 50 summary: The popular response to projects of building community churches and parish houses in small communities leads to the belief that the general public accepts as the correct one the principle that the church should provide these facilities. The relations of the benevolent boards of the several denominations to other church organizations are such that but little can be said concerning methods of relating missionary work to the larger program of community service. keywords: agencies; christian; church; church building; church membership; church work; churches; communities; community service; conditions; country; denominations; groups; interests; life; minister; movement; organization; people; population; problems; program; rural; social; support; time; village; work cache: 26114.txt plain text: 26114.txt item: #146 of 323 id: 26136 author: Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury) title: The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness date: None words: 22583 flesch: 75 summary: The portion covering the front of the Altar is called the _frontal_; that covering the top of the Altar and simply a few inches of the front is called the _super-frontal_. The Beauty of Holiness_ _Worship_ keywords: altar; christ; christian; church; churches; communion; cross; day; days; form; god; holy; illustration; life; lord; note; page; place; prayer; saviour; service; symbol; use; word; worship cache: 26136.txt plain text: 26136.txt item: #147 of 323 id: 26195 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 07, July, 1894 date: None words: 18564 flesch: 82 summary: Ch., Ladies' S. C., Bbl. C., _for Saluda, N. C._ Central Village. Ladies, Bbl. C., _for High Point, N. C._, Freight Prepaid Lewiston. keywords: 5.00; aid; c. e.; cong; cong ch; home; indian; m. s.; missionary; mrs; new; p. s.; president; rev; s. c.; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; south; student; tougaloo; treasurer; tuition; union; w. m.; woman; work; year cache: 26195.txt plain text: 26195.txt item: #148 of 323 id: 26308 author: Ware, Henry title: Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching date: None words: 18971 flesch: 59 summary: It is one of the infelicities of a university education, that a man is there trained in a fictitious scene, where there are interests, associations, feelings, exceedingly diverse from what prevail in the society of the world; and where he becomes so far separated from the habits and sympathies of other men, as to need to acquire a new knowledge of them, before he knows how to address them. As for those whose indolence habitually prevails over principle, and who make no preparation for duty excepting the mechanical one of covering over a certain number of pages,--they have no concern in the ministry, and should be driven to seek some other employment, where their mechanical labor may provide them a livelihood, without injuring their own souls, or those of other men. keywords: art; attention; habit; language; man; men; mind; mode; practice; preparation; speaker; speaking; study; subject; thing; thoughts; time; writing cache: 26308.txt plain text: 26308.txt item: #149 of 323 id: 26357 author: Wright, David title: Is the Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885 date: None words: 3066 flesch: 86 summary: We are listening to this same word from the lips of the fathers of the earth, and the mothers of the earth, and all whom care for young men and young women chiefly touches and most nearly concerns. Look upon it, young men and young women, and remember--_That is God_: not a stream of tendency or any such vague and fantastic shadow. keywords: absalom; father; god; king; man cache: 26357.txt plain text: 26357.txt item: #150 of 323 id: 26709 author: Murray, Andrew title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray date: None words: 7974 flesch: 84 summary: Let His name, His infinite Father-love, the love with which He loved Thee, according to Thy prayer, BE IN US. Thy Father_ shall recompense thee;' _ keywords: father; god; lord; prayer; spirit; worship cache: 26709.txt plain text: 26709.txt item: #151 of 323 id: 26744 author: Taylor, James Hudson title: A Retrospect date: None words: 41278 flesch: 73 summary: It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the GOD-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of GOD does not mean so much man's work for GOD, as GOD'S own work through man. Furthermore, in our privileged position of fellow-workers with Him, while fully recognising all the benefits and blessings to be bestowed on a sin-stricken world through the proclamation of the Gospel and spread of the Truth, we should never lose sight of the higher aspect of our work--that of obedience to GOD, of bringing glory to His Name, of gladdening the heart of our GOD and FATHER by living and serving as His beloved children. keywords: boat; chau; china; city; day; father; god; good; heart; help; home; house; illustration; life; little; lord; man; men; miles; mission; missionary; money; need; night; people; place; prayer; service; shanghai; things; thought; time; way; work cache: 26744.txt plain text: 26744.txt item: #152 of 323 id: 26794 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 02, February, 1895 date: None words: 21236 flesch: 82 summary: W. H. M. S. _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._ Sundries, _for Brewer N. Sch., Greenwood, S. C._ Westboro. keywords: a.m.; agency; aid; ala; c. e.; cal; church; cong; cong ch; d. c.; d.d; friend; h. m.; indian; m. s.; mary; mass; mcintosh; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; ohio; p. s.; rev; s. c.; s. d.; s. s.; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; teachers; tenn; tuition; w. m.; washington; woman; work cache: 26794.txt plain text: 26794.txt item: #153 of 323 id: 26996 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896 date: None words: 17157 flesch: 84 summary: Ch., Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C. _for Greenwood, S. C._ Grand Haven. Ch., 8; Junior Soc., 8; Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, 8, _for Wilmington, N. C._ 24.00 Ligonia. keywords: 5.00; aid; c. e.; church; cong; cong ch; day; home; m. s.; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; offering; p. s.; president; rev; s. c.; sab; sch; school; secretary; soc; student; treasurer; tuition; union; woman; work cache: 26996.txt plain text: 26996.txt item: #154 of 323 id: 27243 author: Cable, Mildred title: The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow date: None words: 55033 flesch: 66 summary: Few have more accurate knowledge of the Scripture than he, his addresses are well and carefully prepared, and he has been the means under God of leading many men to a knowledge of the Saviour. such men Carry the fire, all things grow warm to them. keywords: bible; chapter; china; chinese; christian; church; city; day; days; death; face; family; food; girls; god; good; gospel; heart; home; house; hsi; husband; hwochow; left; life; lord; love; man; mind; missionaries; missionary; months; mother; mrs; opium; pastor; people; place; power; refuge; return; room; school; spirit; time; village; way; women; words; work; years; young cache: 27243.txt plain text: 27243.txt item: #155 of 323 id: 27266 author: Bates, Joseph title: The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition date: None words: 29571 flesch: 81 summary: the Sabbath day to keep it holy_; (which day is it Lord?) And they held their peace, and he took him and healed him,' and asked them 'which of them having an ox or an ass fall into the pit, would not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day; and they could not answer him again.' keywords: commandments; covenant; day sabbath; days; god; holy; israel; jesus; keeping; law; lord; moses; new; original; page; paul; seventh; time; week; years cache: 27266.txt plain text: 27266.txt item: #156 of 323 id: 27316 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope date: None words: 4750 flesch: 89 summary: D. L. Moody, who is perhaps the most popular and efficient preacher of the gospel of Christ in the world, to-day, is evidently fully committed to a belief in the speedy coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to judge the world and establish his eternal kingdom. Go out on the streets of Chicago and ask men about the return of our Lord, and that is just what they would say: Ah, yes, the Lord delayeth his coming! Behold, I come quickly, said Christ to John, and the last prayer in the Bible is, Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly. keywords: christ; church; coming; god; lord; world cache: 27316.txt plain text: 27316.txt item: #157 of 323 id: 27452 author: Strong, Augustus Hopkins title: A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions date: None words: 53106 flesch: 65 summary: We have able and devoted representatives on this foreign field, and I believe that God will make them mighty to dethrone Buddhism, and to crown Christ Lord of all. And yet, even the Theosophical Society, with all its absurdities of levitation and the astral body, has been compelled to bear some witness to Jesus Christ. keywords: british; buddha; burma; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; day; education; english; faith; feet; god; gospel; government; heathen; hindu; human; india; influence; japan; knowledge; life; light; lord; man; men; method; miles; missionaries; missionary; missions; native; nature; new; old; people; place; power; religion; schools; scripture; self; sin; spirit; temple; time; truth; way; work; world; worship; years cache: 27452.txt plain text: 27452.txt item: #158 of 323 id: 27563 author: Brooks, Phillips title: Heart's-ease date: None words: 1882 flesch: 80 summary: No beauty is really beautiful which in any way hinders righteousness or weakens spiritual life. The thought of life is like that untouched line we call the sky, but which, when we try to reach it, proves to be not one single line, but an infinite depth ... stored with what strange uses and benefactions we dare not say. keywords: god; illustration; life; man cache: 27563.txt plain text: 27563.txt item: #159 of 323 id: 27714 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 date: None words: 23810 flesch: 82 summary: Benzonia, Miss Sarah Bedell, _for Wilmington, N. C._, 75 cts.; and G. A. R. Post of New York, Bunting Flag, _for Wilmington, N. C._ Detroit, First, C. E., 10, _for Pleasant Hill, Acad._; 10 _for Tougaloo, U._ Detroit, First, _for S. A., Brewer N. Sch., Greenwood, S. C._, 10.10. Goods, _for Nat., Ala._ Barre, Mrs. Joseph F. Gaylord, _for S. A., Brewer N. Sch., S. C._, 5. Barre, C. E., 3.58. keywords: ala; bbl; c. e.; chinese; christian; estate; fisk; fund; goods; hill; home; indian; m. s.; miss; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; park; people; pleasant; porto; president; rev; rico; s. a.; s. c.; sch; second; secretary; soc; south; tenn; treasurer; union; wilmington; woman; work cache: 27714.txt plain text: 27714.txt item: #160 of 323 id: 27848 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes date: None words: 9674 flesch: 80 summary: The people share in them by responding 'Lord have mercy' at the end of each petition, and 'Amen' at the close. {EKTENÊ} OR GREAT COLLECT {Hyper tês anôthen eirênês, kai tês sôtêrias tôn psychôn hêmôn, tou Kyriou deêthômen} I Lord, to our humble prayers attend, Let Thou Thy peace from heaven descend, IV Lord, by Thy Passion Thou Sav'st men from passions base, keywords: christ; church; day; earth; glory; god; greek; hymns; iii; life; light; lord; praise; thee; thou; thy cache: 27848.txt plain text: 27848.txt item: #161 of 323 id: 27852 author: Sylvain, Adrien title: Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life date: None words: 23614 flesch: 81 summary: What is done by these poor people and little children for the gold dust GOD has sown in those obscure rivers, we would do with those counsels and teachings which GOD has sown almost everywhere, which sparkle, enlighten, and inspire for a moment, then disappear, leaving but regret that the thought did not occur to collect and treasure them. A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal: If I dared, I would ask GOD why I am placed in the world; what have I to do? keywords: child; day; god; good; heart; help; holy; jesus; life; love; peace; prayer; soul; thee; thou; thought; thy; words cache: 27852.txt plain text: 27852.txt item: #162 of 323 id: 28025 author: Paton, John Gibson title: The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals date: None words: 118002 flesch: 76 summary: I am more proud that the blood of Martyrs is in my veins, and their truths in my heart, than other men can be of noble pedigree or royal names. In these conflicts many men were bruised with clubs and wounded with arrows, but few lives were lost, considering the savage uproar and frenzy of the scene. keywords: aneityum; aniwa; bush; chapter; chief; children; christian; church; day; days; dear; death; father; feet; friends; god; good; great; hand; heart; heathen; help; home; house; island; jehovah; jesus; leave; left; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; meeting; men; miaki; mission; mission house; missionaries; missionary; morning; mrs; natives; new; night; people; poor; prayer; round; sabbath; sea; tanna; tannese; teachers; time; village; war; way; white; wife; work; worship; years; young cache: 28025.txt plain text: 28025.txt item: #163 of 323 id: 28468 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 02, April, 1900 date: None words: 26963 flesch: 83 summary: S. C._, 11. Goods, 3.50 _for freight, for B. N. Sch., Greenwood, S. C._ keywords: ala; bbl; box; c. e.; chinese; fisk; freight; friend; goods; hill; home; ladies; lincoln; lincoln mem; m. s.; mary; mem; miss; missionary; moorhead; mountain; mrs; n. c.; new; north; park; porto; president; rev; rico; s. a.; s. c.; s. s.; sch; school; second; secretary; soc; south; tenn; treasurer; union; union c.; west; woman; work cache: 28468.txt plain text: 28468.txt item: #164 of 323 id: 28479 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church date: None words: 10371 flesch: 86 summary: I To Thee, O Christ, our God, Great Shepherd, who didst bear The wandering sheep that strayed Back to Thy shepherd care; II Who, pitying, gav'st Thy life, That we might stray no more,-- To Thee our hearts we raise, And Thee our songs adore. I O, touch my heart, and bring to mind The sin I should deplore; And give me grace, Thou God most kind, That I may sin no more. keywords: christ; church; god; iii; life; light; lord; morn; sin; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: 28479.txt plain text: 28479.txt item: #165 of 323 id: 28541 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 03, July, 1900 date: None words: 25747 flesch: 81 summary: Northampton, First C. C., A Friend, _for Gregory Inst., Wilmington, N. C._, 20; Edwards C., Friends, bbl. Woodfords, Miss Jennie Lucas, _for S. A., Skyland Inst., N. C._, 10. keywords: american; ave; bbl; c. c.; c. e.; chinese; church; class; fisk; friend; fund; goods; home; m. c.; m. s.; missionary; mrs; n. c.; new; north; park; people; porto; president; rev; rico; s. a.; s. c.; school; second; secretary; soc; south; talladega c.; tenn; treasurer; union; wilmington; woman; work; year; young cache: 28541.txt plain text: 28541.txt item: #166 of 323 id: 28712 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 04, October, 1900 date: None words: 24010 flesch: 80 summary: Waterbury, Mrs. C. C. Holmes, 10; M. C. H., 3. Watertown, Mrs. J. B. Woolson's S. Class, _for S. A., Fort Berthold, N. D._, 8. Secretary--Mrs. C. W. S. Cobb, 4415 W. Morgan St., St. Louis. keywords: american; ann'y; association; c. e.; children; china; chinese; chinese m.; christian; cts; estate; fisk; friends; fund; home; m. s.; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; pledges; porto; president; rev; rico; s. a.; s. c.; san; school; second; secretary; south; talladega c.; treasurer; union; woman; work; years cache: 28712.txt plain text: 28712.txt item: #167 of 323 id: 29074 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 date: None words: 18480 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., 1 Bbl., val. 42; Somerville, Mrs. E. W. Haynes, 1 Bbl., _for Kittrell, N. C._; Lower Lights Soc. of Prospect Hill Ch., 1 Bbl., _for Wilmington, N. C._; Saxonville, Mrs. G. W. Webster, 1 Bbl., _for Kitrell, N. C._; West Somerville, Young People's Mission Band of Day St. Ch., 2 Bbls. Lower Lights Soc. of Prospect Hill Ch., _for Missionary, Wilmington, N. C._ 18.00 South Braintree. keywords: aid; ala; atlanta; bbl; cong; const; friend; good; hampton; ill; indian; industrial; l.m; ladies; mary; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; teacher; university; wis; work; years cache: 29074.txt plain text: 29074.txt item: #168 of 323 id: 29096 author: Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel) title: Memoranda Sacra date: None words: 29048 flesch: 71 summary: Memoranda Sacra BY J. RENDEL HARRIS FOURTH EDITION HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON MCMVII TO MY BELOVED IN CHRIST JESUS It pleased God, in the days when we used to meet together in Cambridge for His worship and for personal help, to draw us unitedly very close to Himself, so that few of us are likely to forget the seasons of refreshing which we enjoyed from His presence; and if, by His good providence, any of us meet in these later days, one of the readiest sentences to rise to our lips is the word, Do you remember? The papers which make up this little volume were originally designed to the same end, the remembrance of one another, and of the truths which God taught us. keywords: christ; day; death; faith; father; god; heart; jesus; life; light; lord; love; man; men; peace; people; power; prayer; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; world cache: 29096.txt plain text: 29096.txt item: #169 of 323 id: 29165 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 date: None words: 18880 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17 61.17 Wells. Ch., 81.50, _for Talladega C._ and bal. to const. keywords: aid; american; association; children; christian; church; churches; committee; cong; fisk; home; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; society; student; talladega; time; woman; work; year cache: 29165.txt plain text: 29165.txt item: #170 of 323 id: 29296 author: Murray, Andrew title: The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer date: None words: 55791 flesch: 80 summary: He did what God asked: he dared trust God to do what he asked. The busy hands are folded, As the little heart uplifts In simple love, To God above, Its prayer for all good gifts. keywords: answer; blessing; christ; church; day; faith; father; god; grace; heart; heaven; holy; intercession; life; lord; love; man; men; need; power; prayer; sin; spirit; time; work; world cache: 29296.txt plain text: 29296.txt item: #171 of 323 id: 29427 author: Carmichael, Amy title: Lotus Buds date: None words: 80803 flesch: 80 summary: It is to these--The Great--that little children are dedicated; the whole Temple system is worked in their name. Since then many Indian pastors and workers, and several warm-hearted Christian apothecaries and nurses in Government service, have become interested; with the result that little children who must otherwise have perished have been saved. keywords: babies; baby; chapter; chellalu; child; children; come; day; days; evu; eyes; face; flowers; friend; girl; god; good; hands; head; heart; help; hindu; home; house; illustration; indian; left; life; look; lord; love; moment; morning; mother; night; nursery; people; place; prayer; room; round; saw; soul; story; tara; temple; things; thought; time; water; way; woman; word; work cache: 29427.txt plain text: 29427.txt item: #172 of 323 id: 29449 author: Staveley, Lilian title: The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers date: None words: 23435 flesch: 75 summary: But the sacrifice of the soul is real and long; for having at last re-found God, she must resign her full joy of Him till the death of the body--and this willingly, thankfully, without complaint, not asking favours but pouring up her gratitude. Next, I banished my own feelings as much as I could (since love must not think of itself), paying as little attention to them as possible by perpetually dropping them out as they came and returning to the thought of Jesus, concerning myself at all times of the day to loving inward conversation with Him; and in this manner I fastened myself closer than ever to Him, continually praying for greater love to give Him and passionately offering Him all that I already had, whilst with all my will and strength I tried to climb out of my miserable state. keywords: body; christ; condition; creature; god; heart; jesus; joy; life; love; man; mind; soul; spirit; things; way; world cache: 29449.txt plain text: 29449.txt item: #173 of 323 id: 29450 author: Staveley, Lilian title: The Prodigal Returns date: None words: 37460 flesch: 71 summary: I believed earnestly in God with the complete and peaceful faith of childhood. I was not always sure if this were quite right, but I could not concentrate my mind on God if my body was cold, because then I could not forget my body. keywords: body; christ; day; flesh; god; heart; joy; knowledge; life; living; love; man; mind; pain; self; soul; spirit; spiritual; time; union; way; world; years cache: 29450.txt plain text: 29450.txt item: #174 of 323 id: 29451 author: Staveley, Lilian title: The Romance of the Soul date: None words: 21610 flesch: 69 summary: At first when the creature is being taught to bless God it shrinks back in a fright, crying, What am I that I should dare to bless Almighty God, I am afraid to do it; I am too unworthy; let me wait till I am more righteous, till I have done more works. Having once re-found God, the soul frequently cries to Him in an anguish of pained wonder, How could I ever have left Thee? keywords: christ; creature; divine; evil; god; heart; jesus; life; love; man; mind; soul; spiritual; things; thou; world cache: 29451.txt plain text: 29451.txt item: #175 of 323 id: 29480 author: None title: Hymns from the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church date: None words: 15561 flesch: 83 summary: For Thou hast memory of the woe That filled Thy soul at Calvary. Thy soul the wrath of sin Its tempest fury cast, keywords: christ; church; come; cross; day; death; earth; glory; god; heaven; iii; life; light; lord; love; mercy; power; sin; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: 29480.txt plain text: 29480.txt item: #176 of 323 id: 29556 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 06, June, 1884 date: None words: 15547 flesch: 80 summary: Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ Woodfords. Ch., _for Freight_ 2.35 Cambridge. keywords: aid; american; association; chinese; christian; church; cong; fisk; government; home; indian; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; school; soc; south; student; talladega; tuition; work; year cache: 29556.txt plain text: 29556.txt item: #177 of 323 id: 29666 author: Aaberg, J. C. (Jens Christian) title: Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark date: None words: 54550 flesch: 70 summary: This collection was followed in 1825 by a volume of church hymns, which was enlarged and reprinted in 1843. In this rugged hymn Kingo is at his best--fiery, vital, a master of imagery and graphic expression. keywords: brorson; children; christian; christianity; church; copenhagen; country; danish; day; death; denmark; faith; following; friends; god; grace; grundtvig; heart; heaven; home; hymnal; hymns; jesus; joy; kingo; language; life; light; lord; love; man; number; pastor; peace; people; savior; sin; song; soul; spirit; spiritual; thee; thou; thy; time; way; word; work; years cache: 29666.txt plain text: 29666.txt item: #178 of 323 id: 30026 author: Stryker, Elisabeth G. title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 date: None words: 9207 flesch: 74 summary: Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote their lives to this cause. The promises of God are sure, and the riches which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and a crown, they respond by the dozen! keywords: american; bible; board; foreign; god; home; life; men; mills; missionary; missions; new; people; society; time cache: 30026.txt plain text: 30026.txt item: #179 of 323 id: 30085 author: Rhea, Sarah J. title: Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812 date: None words: 13403 flesch: 73 summary: Mr. Martyn received his first impressions of the transcendent excellence of the Christian ministry of Mr. Simeon, from which it was but a short step to choose this calling for his own, for until now he had intended to devote himself to the law chiefly, he confesses, because he could not consent to be poor for Christ's sake. In March, 1802, after another rigid examination, Mr. Martyn was chosen Fellow of St. Johns, a situation honorable to the society and gratifying to himself. keywords: christ; day; god; good; gospel; henry; india; life; man; martyn; men; mind; night; persian; thought; time; words; work cache: 30085.txt plain text: 30085.txt item: #180 of 323 id: 30158 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 07, July, 1885 date: None words: 16177 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., box of C., _for Talladega C._ Rockford. Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy, 3.--Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.--Casco, Mrs. Mayberry, 1.--Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.--Orland, Ch., by Miss Buck, 23.--Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S. Longfellow, 2 82.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60. keywords: aid; class; cong; cong ch; fisk; indian; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; woman; work; year; young cache: 30158.txt plain text: 30158.txt item: #181 of 323 id: 30220 author: Patrick, James title: Evangelists of Art: Picture-Sermons for Children date: None words: 11580 flesch: 85 summary: You see that in the days of the Reformation there were good men and women, like John Winram, and the Governor of the Castle, and his wife, who sympathised with the Reformers, even though at first they did not come out boldly on their side. On the wall behind Luther is a portrait of Pope Alexander VI., who died not long before this time, and was one of the worst of men. keywords: bible; christ; death; face; god; hand; head; horse; jesus; life; look; love; man; picture; world cache: 30220.txt plain text: 30220.txt item: #182 of 323 id: 30362 author: Gerhardt, Paul title: Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly date: None words: 45209 flesch: 87 summary: And until Thou Thy heart to me With sweet love flowing over, Should'st discover, And we united be, Thy goodness for my cover. What heretofore hath given Thy God, didst thou deride, Thy Father who's in Heaven Now turn'd hath to thy side. keywords: art thou; aye; care; christ; come; day; death; deliver; dost; doth; earth; eyes; father; gerhardt; god; god doth; good; grace; grief; hand; hath; heart; heaven; joy; life; light; lord; love; men; ne'er; o'er; pow'r; praise; rest; saviour; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; tis; woe; world cache: 30362.txt plain text: 30362.txt item: #183 of 323 id: 30370 author: None title: Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English date: None words: 7338 flesch: 88 summary: Oft, oft shall the prayer unto God be ascending, Though far in the wilderness from thee we dwell, That into thine heart He may daily be sending Joys, comforts, and blessings which tongue cannot tell: That long be thy life, and all-fragrant that life be, Mi feddyliais yn y boreu 18 XXIX. keywords: day; death; earth; god; heaven; jesus; life; lord; love; o'er; shall; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy cache: 30370.txt plain text: 30370.txt item: #184 of 323 id: 30409 author: Watts, Isaac title: A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. date: None words: 12745 flesch: 70 summary: Psal. 44. 1, &c. When _David_ is recounting the Wonders of God in planting the Children of _Israel_ in the Land of _Canaan_, he begins his Song thus, _ Besides Hymns and Songs, and private Psalms, of which there was a great Number in their solemn Assemblies, the Psalm Book of_ David _was brought into the Western Church in this Age in the Time of_ keywords: christian; church; david; god; gospel; lord; new; psalms; scripture; singing; songs; words; worship cache: 30409.txt plain text: 30409.txt item: #185 of 323 id: 30449 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: The Way to God and How to Find It date: None words: 41913 flesch: 90 summary: In this small volume I have endeavored to point out the Way to God. God has graciously owned them when spoken from the pulpit, and I trust will none the less add his blessing now they have been put into the printed page with additional matter. keywords: christ; day; father; god; good; heaven; jesus; john; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mother; people; right; sin; son; things; thou; want; way; world cache: 30449.txt plain text: 30449.txt item: #186 of 323 id: 30459 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 03, March, 1885 date: None words: 19086 flesch: 87 summary: Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ Malden. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._; 3.05 _for Freight_ 3.05 South Wellfleet. keywords: aid; bbl; christ; church; cong; day; fisk; friend; god; ladies; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; talladega; time; work; years cache: 30459.txt plain text: 30459.txt item: #187 of 323 id: 30609 author: Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd) title: The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching date: None words: 61077 flesch: 72 summary: For the vast majority of men life is actually a struggle for bread for themselves and their dependants. Concerning such men but a few words, and those in reply to the reminders that we are continually receiving of the ineptitudes and inaptitudes of preachers. keywords: christ; church; concerning; day; days; divine; end; faith; god; good; gospel; great; hard; heart; jesus; knowledge; life; lord; love; man; men; message; mind; need; new; passion; people; pity; power; preacher; preaching; pulpit; sake; sermon; service; soul; spirit; things; time; truth; way; word; work; years cache: 30609.txt plain text: 30609.txt item: #188 of 323 id: 30645 author: Janeway, James title: Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour A Token for Children date: None words: 14425 flesch: 88 summary: O Lord God and merciful Father, take pity upon me, a miserable sinner: and strengthen me, O Lord, in thy faith, and make me one of thy saints in heaven. I am a poor creature without thee; but, Lord Jesus, my soul longs to be with thee: keywords: child; christ; day; father; god; jesus; little; lord; love; mother; soul; time cache: 30645.txt plain text: 30645.txt item: #189 of 323 id: 30675 author: Johnston, Robert title: Presbyterian Worship: Its Spirit, Method and History date: None words: 27580 flesch: 41 summary: A spirit of opposition stronger than that which had before existed was developed against any liturgy in Church worship, and the seeds were sown which were afterwards to bear fruit in the harvest of the Revolution of 1688. we are hereby pleased to authorize you ... to condescend upon a form of Church service to be used therein. keywords: assembly; book; church; church service; church worship; directory; forms; god; knox; minister; order; people; prayer; presbyterian; public; scotland; service; spirit; time; use; worship cache: 30675.txt plain text: 30675.txt item: #190 of 323 id: 30768 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Sowing and Reaping date: None words: 24600 flesch: 85 summary: One night after he had been coming there for two weeks, I happened to point right down where he was sitting, and I said, Young man, be not deceived! With a great deal of emotion he said: Young men, for the first time in my life this question came over me--who is going to pray for my lost soul now? keywords: children; day; father; flesh; god; good; harvest; heart; law; life; man; men; mother; reaping; seed; shall; sin; sowing; spirit; thou; thy; time; way; world; years cache: 30768.txt plain text: 30768.txt item: #191 of 323 id: 30995 author: None title: Indian Methodist Hymn-book Hymns Used on the Fraser River Indian Mission, of the Methodist Church, B. C. Conference, to Which Are Appended Hymns in Chinook, and the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments date: None words: 7058 flesch: 89 summary: O `kal al ta Jesus swas mellas tokla. 2 Jesus ta skwikh osthayte tsits-ay-e Whulam ta kul skwi-la-wal, Tokla towtamuk kul see-see Awkwit tokla lee-awm. T.C. ENGLISH 1 Jesus! keywords: alkomaylum; c.m.t; come; english; jesus; klosh; kwus; lay; mika; owe; skwi; skwilawal; tal; tchee; tchilth; thy; tokla cache: 30995.txt plain text: 30995.txt item: #192 of 323 id: 31157 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions date: None words: 7953 flesch: 84 summary: I Before Thy Cross we take our place, With all our load of guilt, And plead forgiveness of Thy grace Because Thy blood was spilt. II For Thou, to free us from our foes, Didst bear that cruel Cross, And by its agony and woes Bring gain for all our loss. INDEX OF FIRST LINES All hail, Life-bearing Cross, 29 All human things decay, 17 At early dawn with pious thought, 45 Before Thy Cross we take our place, 26 Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, 36 Come let us sing with joyful mirth, 69 Come with the load of sorrow thou art bearing, 59 Come, mortals, come, behold! keywords: christ; come; glory; god; holy; iii; light; lord; love; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 31157.txt plain text: 31157.txt item: #193 of 323 id: 31169 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 08, August, 1885 date: None words: 16038 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 Hudson. Ch., _for Share_ 20.00 Falmouth. keywords: aid; church; cong; education; good; ladies; men; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; student; time; tuition; work; year; young cache: 31169.txt plain text: 31169.txt item: #194 of 323 id: 31490 author: Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) title: The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. date: None words: 9731 flesch: 62 summary: The same great principles of conduct which we have traced in their application to the private offices of citizenship should be adopted by public men, and by these principles should their course be judged. A party composed of good men and true patriots, each of whom should interpret the charge which the Roman Senate gave to the Dictator whom public emergencies called into office as applicable to himself and as indicating the aim which he must pursue, let the cost to himself or the consequence to his party be what it may,--see that the Republic sustain no harm,--such a party would be the salvation and glory of our land. keywords: character; christian; god; life; man; men; party; people; power; principles; public; religion; state cache: 31490.txt plain text: 31490.txt item: #195 of 323 id: 31525 author: Gilmour, James title: James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports date: None words: 94265 flesch: 79 summary: The China Inland Mission has a lot of good men in it. But for these three things many more men could find a living within the bounds of the district Is not that little district an epitome of the world? keywords: book; children; china; chinese; christ; christian; christianity; day; days; district; father; friends; gilmour; god; going; good; half; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; james; james gilmour; jesus; know; left; letter; life; little; london; look; man; men; missionary; money; mongolia; mongols; morning; new; night; peking; people; place; room; saw; service; society; tent; things; thought; time; tobacco; use; way; whisky; work; years cache: 31525.txt plain text: 31525.txt item: #196 of 323 id: 31647 author: Havergal, Frances Ridley title: Kept for the Master's Use date: None words: 39516 flesch: 83 summary: And when once we really grasp this (hardly so much by faith as by love itself), the will of God cannot be otherwise than acceptable, for it is no longer a question of trusting that somehow or other there is a hidden element of love in it, but of understanding that it _is_ love; no more to be dissociated from it than the power of the sun's rays can be dissociated from their light and warmth. Lord Jesus, Thou hast trodden once for all The Via Dolorosa,--and for us! keywords: christ; day; feet; god; good; great; hand; heart; jesus; life; lips; little; lord; love; master; new; power; singing; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; trust; use; word; work cache: 31647.txt plain text: 31647.txt item: #197 of 323 id: 31670 author: Furness, William Henry title: A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church date: None words: 5348 flesch: 66 summary: So, then, the fact that private men are interested in public affairs, even though it be attended with a good deal of excitement,--that is not the thing to be deplored. If your public affairs, as they are directed in your Public Councils, were uncontrolled by the sentiments of private men, they would soon be coming down into our streets and into our private dwellings with a most disastrous influence. keywords: interest; life; man; men; people; public cache: 31670.txt plain text: 31670.txt item: #198 of 323 id: 31791 author: Schauffler, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) title: Training the Teacher date: None words: 80949 flesch: 77 summary: On | | | | Way to Bethsaida (4). | 19:1, 2 | 10:1 | 9:51-56 | | | | | Mission of the | ... keywords: acts; age; bible; child; church; class; general; god; good; israel; king; kingdom; knowledge; lesson; life; man; matthew |; men; missionary; new; people; period; power; pupil; questions; school; school teacher; second; soul; story; study; sunday; sunday school; teacher; teaching; testament; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; work; world; years; | appearance; | disciples; | discourses; | galilee; | healing; | jerusalem; | jesus; | john; | luke; | mark; | return; | | cache: 31791.txt plain text: 31791.txt item: #199 of 323 id: 31848 author: Berkeley, George title: A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity, By a College to Be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda date: None words: 6847 flesch: 54 summary: About forty years ago, upon cutting down many tall cedars, that sheltered their orange-trees from the north west-wind (which sometimes blows, even there, so as to affect that delicate plant) great part of their orange plantations suffered; but other cedars are since grown up, and no doubt a little industry would again produce as great plenty of oranges, as ever was there heretofore. A general intercourse and correspondence with all the English colonies, both on the islands and the continent, and with other parts of America, hath been before laid down, as a necessary circumstance, the reason whereof is very evident. keywords: america; bermuda; college; good; hath; men; parts; place; plantations; religion; savage cache: 31848.txt plain text: 31848.txt item: #200 of 323 id: 32278 author: None title: Seven Graded Sunday Schools: A Series of Practical Papers date: None words: 20791 flesch: 69 summary: The Sunday school year may follow that of the public school. We have most of the modern appliances for Sunday school work, and a most enterprising and faithful corps of officers and teachers. keywords: class; classes; course; department; grade; room; scholars; school; senior; study; sunday school; superintendent; system; teachers; work; years; | | cache: 32278.txt plain text: 32278.txt item: #201 of 323 id: 32355 author: Stall, Sylvanus title: With the Children on Sundays Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul date: None words: 89766 flesch: 82 summary: NUTS--God Means that We Must Work 46 5. BANKS--Gathered and Guarded Treasures 51 6. A POCKET RULE--How God Measures Men 81 11. keywords: bible; body; book; boys; children; christ; church; day; desire; earth; eye; father; find; girls; glass; god; good; heart; home; illustration; jesus; kind; law; life; light; look; magnet; man; men; money; object; people; place; shall; sunday; things; time; use; want; water; way; words; work; world; years cache: 32355.txt plain text: 32355.txt item: #202 of 323 id: 32703 author: Mills, Harlow S. (Harlow Spencer) title: The Making of a Country Parish: A Story date: None words: 21477 flesch: 71 summary: That has not always been the idea of church people. Community work can never take the place of the work of God's Spirit in the individual life. keywords: benzonia; benzonia church; church; churches; community; country; good; home; life; man; parish; people; school; sunday; things; village; vision; way; work; years cache: 32703.txt plain text: 32703.txt item: #203 of 323 id: 33014 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians date: None words: 42038 flesch: 88 summary: I believe many men might as well go into the pulpit and blow a tin horn Sabbath after Sabbath as go on preaching without love. I have noticed that many men now-a-days will go to a conference and talk for hours on that subject, but they will not themselves lift a hand to reach the masses. keywords: boy; children; christ; church; day; faith; god; good; heart; life; little; lord; love; man; men; mother; people; school; things; thought; time; want; way; work; world; years cache: 33014.txt plain text: 33014.txt item: #204 of 323 id: 33015 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: The Overcoming Life, and Other Sermons date: None words: 35580 flesch: 90 summary: The statesmen and astronomers and great men call for mercy; but it is too late. They had erected a monument to John Bunyan, and it was unveiled by lords and dukes and great men. keywords: ark; christ; christian; come; day; god; good; heart; jesus; john; life; light; lord; man; men; noah; people; rest; sin; things; time; want; world; years cache: 33015.txt plain text: 33015.txt item: #205 of 323 id: 33024 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations date: None words: 38277 flesch: 90 summary: As soon as I finished preaching, I went to him and said: My good friend, you haven't gone back into darkness again? Said he: Oh, Mr. Moody, it has been the most wretched day in my life. Said the young man, So I am, but I am not ashamed of my Lord. keywords: bible; boy; child; children; christ; christian; church; day; father; friend; god; good; home; house; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; moody; mother; people; right; story; tell; things; thought; time; want; way; world; years cache: 33024.txt plain text: 33024.txt item: #206 of 323 id: 33180 author: None title: Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion date: None words: 76666 flesch: 93 summary: And Thou, my heavenly Friend and Guide, Hast kindly led me on; Taught me to rest my fainting head Upon Thy heart alone. No more, on earth no more, 352 None loves me, Father, with Thy love, 249 Not in the name of pride, 155 Not in this simple rite alone, 152 keywords: c. m.; christ; come; cross; day; death; earth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; hath; heart; heaven; high; holy; hope; hour; jesus; joy; l. m.; life; light; lord; love; m. anonymous; man; mercy; o god; o lord; o thou; o'er; peace; power; praise; prayer; rest; shall; sin; soul; spirit; strength; thee; thine; thou; thy; truth; way; world cache: 33180.txt plain text: 33180.txt item: #207 of 323 id: 33214 author: Livingstone, W. P. (William Pringle) title: The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith date: None words: 50279 flesch: 88 summary: If only some one would come and help me at Akpap, Ma prayed, and her wish was answered, for another brave woman, Miss Wright, one of the Mission agents in Calabar, offered to go up and stay with her, and after that everything was easy, for Ma Slessor loved Ma Wright, and Ma Wright loved Ma Slessor, and both loved the bairns, and the bairns loved both, so that it was a happy company which lived in this African forest clearing. The letters from home Ma kept, along with other treasures, in an old chest of drawers that she loved because it had been her mother's. keywords: boys; canoe; chief; children; church; come; day; forest; girls; god; good; heart; help; home; house; illustration; janie; jesus; life; love; man; mary; men; mission; mother; night; people; things; time; town; way; white; women; work cache: 33214.txt plain text: 33214.txt item: #208 of 323 id: 33237 author: Doughty, William E. (William Ellison) title: The Call of the World; or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity date: None words: 29062 flesch: 68 summary: Christian men might well ponder deeply and then take as a guiding principle in life that sentence of the late Mr. J. H. Converse of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, When Christian business men devote the same skill and energy to Christian work which they now give to their private business concerns the proposition to evangelize the world in this generation will be no longer a dream. The home of great world movements. keywords: america; china; christian; christianity; church; day; god; history; life; man; men; miles; millions; missionaries; missionary; missions; movement; new; people; population; principles; states; study; task; time; united; united states; work; world; world task; years; york cache: 33237.txt plain text: 33237.txt item: #209 of 323 id: 33247 author: MacNeil, John title: The Spirit-Filled Life date: None words: 27243 flesch: 84 summary: A clean heart then does not mean sinlessness, the eradication of sin, that sin is taken out of us; for though sin is taken out of the _heart_ that is cleansed--for a clean heart must be clean!--yet the flesh, the self-life, remains in the _man_, latent if not patent, ready to manifest itself should the counteracting power of the indwelling Christ the Saviour even for a moment be withdrawn. It goes without saying that _that_ man was full of the Holy Ghost. keywords: acts; blessing; christ; cleansing; faith; fullness; ghost; god; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; man; men; new; sin; spirit; water; word cache: 33247.txt plain text: 33247.txt item: #210 of 323 id: 33290 author: Burgett, Arthur Edward title: The Door of Heaven: A Manual for Holy Communion date: None words: 9376 flesch: 88 summary: But chiefly are we bound to praise Thee for the glorious Resurrection of Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord: for He is the very Paschal Lamb, which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world; who by His death hath destroyed death, and by His rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life. Amen._ After shall be said as followeth, O Lord and heavenly Father, we Thy humble servants entirely desire Thy fatherly goodness mercifully to accept this our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; most humbly beseeching Thee to grant that, by the merits and death of Thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in His Blood, we and all Thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of His passion. keywords: amen; christ; father; god; holy; jesus; lord; thee; thy cache: 33290.txt plain text: 33290.txt item: #211 of 323 id: 33340 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments date: None words: 32709 flesch: 84 summary: We come back to Paul's words, and get consolation for time and eternity:--We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. If it were known that God Himself was going to speak once again to man, what eagerness and excitement there would be. keywords: bible; children; christ; christian; commandment; day; days; father; god; good; great; heart; law; life; lord; love; man; mother; people; right; sabbath; sin; think; thou; thy; time; worship; years cache: 33340.txt plain text: 33340.txt item: #212 of 323 id: 33492 author: Whitham, A. R. (Arthur Richard) title: The Christian Use of the Psalter date: None words: 27548 flesch: 78 summary: At _Mattins_, Ps. i.-cix., divided into nine Nocturns, three of which were said on Sunday, and one on each of the following week-days, beginning each day with the 95th, the Invitatory Psalm. This little book, based on three Lectures delivered to the S. Paul's Lecture Society in January, 1908, is not intended so much for the scholar as for the plain man who goes to Church and loves the Prayer Book, but finds the Psalms sometimes puzzling. keywords: book; catholic; christ; christian; church; david; day; deus; domine; earth; faith; father; god; holy; hope; human; israel; joy; life; lord; man; passion; prayer; prayer book; psalm; psalter; resurrection; spirit; thou; thy; use; words; world; worship cache: 33492.txt plain text: 33492.txt item: #213 of 323 id: 33520 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses date: None words: 53406 flesch: 91 summary: Very likely when some of the lords, and dukes, and great men rode through Goshen, and saw the Israelites sprinkling their dwellings, they said they never saw such foolishness, and that they were spoiling their houses. That is what many men will do. keywords: blood; boy; christ; day; death; faith; father; god; good; heart; heaven; jesus; life; look; lord; man; men; night; people; sin; son; think; time; want; way; world cache: 33520.txt plain text: 33520.txt item: #214 of 323 id: 33587 author: Gill, Charles Otis title: Six Thousand Country Churches date: None words: 38806 flesch: 65 summary: Since, on an average, there are five churches in a township and only 1,448 persons, the formation of community churches is evidently both advisable and important. In spite of this, however, plans for progressive work both for rural business and rural church are well developed, and have been tested; and moreover, the feasibility of progress in both these lines of endeavor has been thoroughly proved. keywords: cent; christian; church; churches; communities; community; community church; counties; country church; county; illustration; life; map; membership; methodist; minister; number; ohio; pastor; people; persons; resident; rural; service; state; townships; united; villages; work; years cache: 33587.txt plain text: 33587.txt item: #215 of 323 id: 33649 author: None title: Thoughts and Counsels of the Saints for Every Day of the Year date: None words: 9953 flesch: 81 summary: 8 The best preparation for death is a perfect resignation to the will of God, after the example of Jesus Christ, who, in His prayer in Gethsemani prepared Himself with these words, Father, not as I will, but as Thou wilt. 21 O most blessed Virgin, who declarest in thy Canticle that it is owing to thy humility that God hath done great things in thee, obtain for me the grace to imitate thee, that is, to be obedient; because to obey is to practise humility.--ST. keywords: alphonsus; de paul; god; great; ignatius; louis; louis de; love; mary; teresa; vincent de cache: 33649.txt plain text: 33649.txt item: #216 of 323 id: 33676 author: None title: General Catholic Devotions date: None words: 14224 flesch: 80 summary: I commend to Thy mercy our holy Father, N., our bishop, N., and all bishops and priests of Thy holy Church. Promote the welfare of Thy Church, and remember in Thy mercy those who have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in peace. keywords: god; heart; holy; jesus; lord; mercy; o jesus; o lord; pray; thee; thou; thy cache: 33676.txt plain text: 33676.txt item: #217 of 323 id: 33742 author: Böhme, Jakob title: Dialogues on the Supersensual Life date: None words: 38269 flesch: 73 summary: For in respect to God thou art withered and dry, like a dead plant that hath lost its sap and strength, and so art become a dry tormenting Hunger. Therefore be pious, fear God, and reverence his Word; especially read diligently the Holy Scriptures, where thou hast comfort and instruction; for thou must endure much misery and poverty, and suffer persecution. keywords: body; christ; disciple; divine; god; hath; heaven; hell; life; light; love; man; master; nature; power; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: 33742.txt plain text: 33742.txt item: #218 of 323 id: 33998 author: Ryden, Ernest Edwin title: The Story of Our Hymns date: None words: 115127 flesch: 74 summary: In the midst of her grief she sought comfort in writing hymns. Jesus hymns, 75, 106, 311. keywords: age; america; author; bishop; book; century; children; christ; christian; church; city; come; cross; day; days; dear; death; earth; england; english; faith; father; following; german; glory; god; good; grace; great; heart; heaven; high; holy; home; hymn; hymnody; jesus; jesus christ; john; joy; king; language; life; light; lord; lord god; love; lutheran; man; men; missionary; morning; movement; music; near; new; number; o jesus; o lord; old; pastor; people; place; poet; praise; prayer; rise; saviour; school; sing; singing; song; soul; spirit; stand; stanza; story; swedish; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; use; voice; way; wesley; words; work; world; worship; writer; writing; years cache: 33998.txt plain text: 33998.txt item: #219 of 323 id: 34447 author: Sayle, Iris Eugenie Friend title: Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan A 3,000 Mile Tour by Two Englishwomen on Behalf of Religious Education date: None words: 44366 flesch: 77 summary: Those I made were as follows: (1) That in the spring, summer, and fall, a Sunday School expert should use the van on the prairie, starting Sunday Schools, visiting the farms and day schools, giving Bible lessons in school hours, if allowed by the trustees, if not, after school hours; taking names for the Sunday School by Post; helping the existing Sunday Schools, teachers, and clergy. They would gather the children together and start Sunday schools, training teachers to carry them on. keywords: canada; caravan; children; church; country; education; england; farm; help; horses; house; left; life; man; men; miles; morning; motor; mud; night; parents; people; place; prairie; regina; sand; school; service; sunday; sunday school; teachers; time; town; trail; vicar; way; wife; winifred; women; work cache: 34447.txt plain text: 34447.txt item: #220 of 323 id: 34683 author: Springer, Rebecca Ruter title: Intra Muros date: None words: 37366 flesch: 82 summary: And as the hymn went on, I recognized many dear voices from the past--Will Griggs' pathetic tenor, Mary Allis' exquisite soprano, and many another voice that wakened memories of the long ago. Why is there so little really helpful talk in ordinary home life? keywords: = =; arms; blessed; brother; child; day; dear; earth; eyes; face; father; hands; heart; heaven; home; house; joy; life; little; love; mother; room; thought; time cache: 34683.txt plain text: 34683.txt item: #221 of 323 id: 34994 author: Habermann, Johann title: Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions date: None words: 24770 flesch: 84 summary: Seek Thou Thy servant, that I forget not Thy commandments. Thou brightest Light of all; And lest we stray from rightness, Make Thou Thy truth our wall. keywords: amen; body; christ; day; evil; father; god; grace; grant; hast; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; lord god; mercy; night; o lord; prayer; son; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: 34994.txt plain text: 34994.txt item: #222 of 323 id: 35050 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals date: None words: 37440 flesch: 73 summary: If only churches rich enough to pay for workers had established Sunday schools in our country, the Sunday school as an institution would not have advanced westward with the wave of population. In the eighteenth century Sunday school, both of England and America, religious instruction was only one of its aims; and it was instruction in the catechism and forms of worship rather than in the Bible. keywords: bible; books; church; class; classes; department; good; lesson; members; new; people; plan; pupils; scholars; school blackboard; school library; school teacher; school work; schools; secretary; service; sunday school; superintendent; teachers; teaching; time; training; year cache: 35050.txt plain text: 35050.txt item: #223 of 323 id: 35221 author: Herr, George L. (George Lewis) title: The Nation Behind Prison Bars date: None words: 40434 flesch: 78 summary: These are good men--as good men as any living. Their destinies were welded together by mutual interest in the work of saving lost men and the affinity of feeling between them developed into a bond of love, each seeing within the other those qualities necessary to happiness in wedded life, and on the 14th of April, 1898, George L. Herr and Miss Lillie M. Joyce, the woman who was such an essential portion of his existence, were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony by the Rev. Carter Helm Jones, D.D., pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky. -------- keywords: brother; christian; church; county; day; evangelist; father; friend; george; god; good; gospel; great; heart; help; herr; jail; jesus; john; l. herr; life; lord; louisville; love; man; men; new; prison; prisoners; rev; sin; state; story; thee; thy; time; way; work; world; years cache: 35221.txt plain text: 35221.txt item: #224 of 323 id: 35737 author: Anonymous title: The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger "Treasure of Prayers" ["Gebets-Schatz"] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church date: None words: 33665 flesch: 78 summary: We beseech Thee, give us grace, and so operate in us through Thy Holy Spirit, that we may heartily rejoice and find comfort in Thy death and resurrection, and thereby quiet our consciences and overcome all fear of death. Thou didst also shed Thy precious blood to wash away and blot out our sins, and didst lay down Thy life in order to rescue us from eternal death. keywords: amen; christ; day; didst; father; god; hast; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; o lord; prayer; sins; thee; thou; thy cache: 35737.txt plain text: 35737.txt item: #225 of 323 id: 35811 author: Mechthild, of Magdeburg title: Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg date: None words: 34582 flesch: 78 summary: Thus the revelation of the love of God, which was to the soul the opening of heaven, the entrance into the Father's house where was the feast of joy, the music, and the dancing, was to lead to a walk of faithfulness here below, which would bring upon the witness of God persecution and shame and reproach. Thou beloved Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Eternal God, one with the Eternal Father, think upon me. keywords: book; christ; church; convent; dante; day; gertrude; god; heart; holy; joy; life; light; lord; love; matilda; place; soul; sweet; thee; things; thou; thy; time; work; years cache: 35811.txt plain text: 35811.txt item: #226 of 323 id: 36162 author: McClure, James G. K. (James Gore King) title: Living for the Best date: None words: 30161 flesch: 77 summary: Yes, though they pay no heed to mere servants and prophets, and though some unappreciative men slay even the Son, other men, the great multitude of men, when they realize that the Son is God's best possession, and realize that in His gift of Christ God exhausts the treasury of His heart, will reverence His Son. Best men are molded out of faults. keywords: character; christ; david; day; duty; father; god; good; heart; hours; jacob; jeremiah; jonathan; king; life; lives; love; man; men; mind; people; place; power; right; son; soul; time; use; victories; world cache: 36162.txt plain text: 36162.txt item: #227 of 323 id: 36332 author: Codman, John title: An Address Delivered at the Interment of Mrs. Harriet Storrs, Consort of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1834. date: None words: 3546 flesch: 65 summary: There are some events, in the providence of God, so completely overwhelming as to render it extremely difficult, almost impossible, to give utterance to the full feelings of the soul through the medium of words. We have not the shadow of a doubt, that the spiritual intelligence, which once beamed upon us with such mild and gentle lustre, and which was, for a short season, shrouded in darkness, is now rekindled by the same gracious hand that so mysteriously overshadowed it, to burn, with increasing and never-ending brightness, with seraphs that surround the throne of God. keywords: church; friends; god; life; rev; service; storrs cache: 36332.txt plain text: 36332.txt item: #228 of 323 id: 36350 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 10, October, 1885 date: None words: 17568 flesch: 81 summary: Ch., 63.71; M. A. Dickey, 50c., _for Indian M._ 64.21 New Haven. Ch., bal. keywords: american; association; bullets; chinese; cong; cong ch; day; friend; god; good; liberty; men; missionary; mrs; new; people; rev; sab; sale; sch; school; soc; south; time; work; years cache: 36350.txt plain text: 36350.txt item: #229 of 323 id: 36351 author: Thompson, A. C. (Augustus Charles) title: Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868. date: None words: 3467 flesch: 71 summary: One of the senior members of this church hands me, by request, the following memorandum:[Footnote: Rev R. Anderson, D.D.]-- I have known Mrs. Marsh since the year 1820, or about forty-eight years. Soon after, there began a remarkable work of grace in that town, and during the short ministry there, till death closed her husband's labors, Mrs. Marsh toiled and prayed, and rejoiced over a spiritual harvest. keywords: church; city; god; marsh; mrs; school; years cache: 36351.txt plain text: 36351.txt item: #230 of 323 id: 36407 author: Scully, Vincent title: A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 date: None words: 18204 flesch: 61 summary: Though his memory and honour have never faded in his own native Belgium, and though France and Germany have vied with each other in spreading his teaching and singing his praises, the very name of Blessed John Ruysbroeck is practically unknown this side of the water. But finally Windesheim was aggregated to the Lateran Congregation of Canons Regular; and thus it is that to-day the Canons Regular of the Lateran are privileged, with the clergy of Mechlin, to keep with proper Office and Mass the Feast of Blessed John Ruysbroeck. keywords: blessed; canons; christ; day; divine; gerard; god; groenendael; holy; john; john ruysbroeck; life; love; man; mystic; prior; ruysbroeck; soul; spirit; union; van; virtues; works; writings; years cache: 36407.txt plain text: 36407.txt item: #231 of 323 id: 36476 author: Byrum, E. E. (Enoch Edwin) title: Riches of Grace: A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life A Narration of Trials and Victories Along the Way date: None words: 56604 flesch: 76 summary: Her people begged to know the reason for her refusal to take the medicine, and she then said that she had been to the church of God meeting and had been made very happy, and that she believed if they would send for the elders of that church she should be healed. Such, then, as may be passing through or who are entering upon such experiences, I trust to be able to show how my feet came to sink into the miry clay and how at last God graciously set me upon the solid rock of his eternal truth and gave me new songs of praise and love once again. keywords: children; christian; day; days; experience; father; god; good; grace; heart; help; home; husband; jesus; life; lord; love; man; mother; people; place; prayer; sin; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; trials; way; word; work; years cache: 36476.txt plain text: 36476.txt item: #232 of 323 id: 36582 author: Anonymous title: Advice to Sunday School Children date: None words: 2739 flesch: 82 summary: Let your behaviour be very serious when you are thus engaged; listen to every word which the minister speaks; he is the messenger of God Almighty, and speaks as if Christ Jesus besought you, by him, to be reconciled to God. Pray to God that his word may prove a blessing to you, and try to understand all you hear; good children will not only endeavour to recollect the text and part of the sermon, but will also repeat them to their parents and teachers. keywords: children; god; illustration; love cache: 36582.txt plain text: 36582.txt item: #233 of 323 id: 36662 author: Shepard, William Edward title: The Palm Tree Blessing date: None words: 42055 flesch: 79 summary: The Word of God abounds in comparisons. Wherever God has compared the godly or the ungodly with anything, He certainly understood the case and made no mistake. keywords: blessing; body; chapter; christ; christian; church; day; death; experience; fire; fruit; god; good; grace; hand; heart; holiness; holy; jesus; life; little; look; lord; love; man; palm; palm tree; people; place; prayer; soul; spirit; things; time; tree; way; work; world; years cache: 36662.txt plain text: 36662.txt item: #234 of 323 id: 36667 author: Mesick, John F. title: A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing date: None words: 7287 flesch: 63 summary: The Scripture sense of the term, _world_, is that collection of idolaters, unbelievers, and wicked men who constitute the great bulk of the inhabitants of our globe; in short all persons who do not belong to the Kingdom of God. _ He encourages all who live without hope and without God in the world to persevere in their neglect of religion, and to go on securely in the entire round of fashionable amusements. keywords: amusement; christ; church; dancing; death; duty; god; heaven; pleasure; religion; spirit; time; world cache: 36667.txt plain text: 36667.txt item: #235 of 323 id: 36694 author: Defoe, Daniel title: The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle date: None words: 6361 flesch: 65 summary: England_ is hardly ever to pass over the _Jourdan_ before her, till these Immoderate Men of Strife and Storms are laid by. Navy_ of _England_ had been at Stake; had rather have lost it than the _Bill against Occasional Conformity_; that had rather the _French_ should have taken _Landau_ and Beat the Prince of _ keywords: church; god; heaven; man; men; moderation; nation; tis; way cache: 36694.txt plain text: 36694.txt item: #236 of 323 id: 36732 author: Stover, Wilbur B. title: Charlie Newcomer date: None words: 8060 flesch: 91 summary: Hurry up Charlie, for as soon as we get our dinner over, we want to play base-ball, and you're on our side, you know, called one of the scholars of the Ringgold school to Charlie Newcomer, as he was going home at noon for his dinner. In the home of Charlie and Bessie's parents at Ringgold, I wrote every word of this sketch. keywords: bessie; charlie; children; church; good; home; mamma; school cache: 36732.txt plain text: 36732.txt item: #237 of 323 id: 36899 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Praying for Money date: None words: 14115 flesch: 70 summary: Praying for Money Spiritual Telepathy Day of Pentecost Axioms Praying for Money Unanswered Prayers Prayer for Others Forms of Prayer _ The reports of the answers to prayer so often use the words happened to think that the observer cannot escape the conviction that either the living human mind does send spirit messages or that some mysterious power acts for it in forwarding messages. keywords: bible; business; child; church; day; father; god; good; home; life; lord; man; men; new; offering; people; prayer; spirit; time cache: 36899.txt plain text: 36899.txt item: #238 of 323 id: 36912 author: Russell, George William title: The Hero in Man date: None words: 5941 flesch: 58 summary: When I think of this old man, bringing forgetfulness of his own bodily pain through contemplation of the spiritual suffering of his Master, my memory of him shines with something of the transcendent light he himself perceived; for I feel that some suffering of his own, nobly undergone, had given him understanding, and he had laid his heart in love against the Heart of Many Sorrows, seeing it wounded by unnumbered spears yet burning with undying love. We weave little stories in our minds, expending love and pity upon the imaginary beings we have created, and I have been led to think that many of these are not imaginary, that somewhere in the world beings are living just in that way, and we merely reform and live over again in our life the story of another life. keywords: beauty; heart; life; light; love; man; nature; soul; world cache: 36912.txt plain text: 36912.txt item: #239 of 323 id: 37143 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Subconscious Religion date: None words: 11668 flesch: 74 summary: I Does God Answer Christians Only? What might be the consensus of opinion found in a digest of all the testimonies of mankind cannot be surmised, but it did not appear that God was a respecter of persons through those years of prayer at the Baptist Temple. Such servants of God can offer prayer which avail much more than the frightened call of the worldly minded, egotistic, and selfish enemy of good people and good principles. keywords: ask; christ; day; faith; god; good; heart; lord; man; men; prayer; praying; soul; spirit; thou; thy; world cache: 37143.txt plain text: 37143.txt item: #240 of 323 id: 37292 author: None title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour date: None words: 40094 flesch: 90 summary: This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being--to be able to _walk_ with God! 4._ There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which alone God can accompany him.--_Denham Smith._ =January 22nd.= _ keywords: = july; christ; day; faith; father; glory; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; john; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; prayer; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; way; work; world cache: 37292.txt plain text: 37292.txt item: #241 of 323 id: 37501 author: Knox-Little, W. J. (William John) title: In Answer to Prayer date: None words: 20017 flesch: 74 summary: God does not deal with all alike, either in His gifts of faith or in those of experience. The soul which waits upon God finds out sooner or later that the prayers which seem to be unanswered are those which may be most truly answered. keywords: answer; children; christ; christian; church; day; faith; friend; god; home; life; lord; man; men; money; new; place; prayer; rev; time; work; years cache: 37501.txt plain text: 37501.txt item: #242 of 323 id: 37540 author: Osgood, Samuel title: The Hearth-Stone: Thoughts Upon Home-Life in Our Cities date: None words: 63278 flesch: 67 summary: Many men have been Christians without knowing it, and many families have been churches without thinking of it. He had the common heart of good men, and had shown his willingness to make sacrifices for his children. keywords: affections; blessing; business; childhood; children; christian; church; day; divine; earth; education; experience; fact; faith; family; father; friends; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; home; honor; household; law; life; light; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; need; new; parents; peace; people; power; society; spirit; things; thought; time; way; wisdom; work; world cache: 37540.txt plain text: 37540.txt item: #243 of 323 id: 37728 author: Davidson, Hannah Frances title: South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples date: None words: 119537 flesch: 75 summary: We preferred a dozen industrious and stable boys to many times that number who were lazy and indifferent. The tent was finally pitched under the shade of a large umkuni tree, Mr. Anderson returned to his station, and we were left without an interpreter, and with no practical knowledge of mission work. keywords: africa; boys; brother; building; bulawayo; chief; children; christian; church; country; day; elder; engle; food; girls; god; good; gospel; help; home; house; hut; language; life; lord; macha; man; matopo; men; miles; mission; mission work; missionaries; missionary; money; mother; natives; new; number; ones; people; place; rest; school; season; sister; south; station; thought; time; town; village; visit; wagon; way; white; wife; women; word; work; year cache: 37728.txt plain text: 37728.txt item: #244 of 323 id: 37734 author: Bernstein, Aaron title: Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ date: None words: 139827 flesch: 66 summary: He was appointed Ewald's successor from the 1st of January, 1871, and brought to his new sphere a ripe and unrivalled experience in Jewish missionary work, gained, as we have seen, in Persia, Turkey, Arabia, and Abyssinia; and an acquaintance with a dozen or more languages, an invaluable possession for a missionary in the metropolis, who has by personal intercourse and correspondence to deal with Jews of different nationalities. It is probably because Goldinger, like many other Jewish converts, out of modesty was reluctant to publish to the world his personal history. keywords: abraham; account; age; amsterdam; author; baptism; ben; berlin; bible; bishop; book; breslau; brethren; british; brother; century; children; christian; christianity; church; city; college; conversion; convert; country; course; daughter; david; day; days; death; der; des; die; education; england; english; ewald; faith; family; father; following; friends; german; god; good; gospel; heart; hebrew; history; holy; home; house; influence; institution; instruction; israel; jacob; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; joseph; judaism; king; knowledge; l.j.s; labours; latin; law; left; leipzig; letter; life; light; literature; london; lord; love; man; messiah; mind; missionaries; missionary; moses; mother; native; new; number; order; parents; paris; pastor; paul; people; period; place; prayer; professor; rabbi; read; reading; religion; return; rev; roman; saviour; school; scriptures; service; society; son; soul; spirit; stern; study; synagogue; talmud; teacher; testament; theology; thought; thy; time; title; town; translation; truth; und; university; vienna; visit; way; wife; wolff; word; work; years; young cache: 37734.txt plain text: 37734.txt item: #245 of 323 id: 37794 author: Cross, Joseph title: Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses date: None words: 64753 flesch: 71 summary: Another deems him a wise moralist, enunciating principles and precepts such as the world never heard before; and in his life, an example of all that is pure and excellent; but not essential and eternal God, nor a vicarious sacrifice for human sin. Should grace divine make it in any measure effectual to the spiritual illumination of those who honor it with a perusal, he will sing his _Nunc Dimittis_ with thankful heart, and wait calmly for the day when every faithful worker shall have praise of God. keywords: beloved; blood; brethren; christ; christian; church; cross; day; death; divine; earth; evil; faith; father; friend; glory; god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hope; jesus; joy; king; know; life; living; lord; love; man; men; mercy; new; paul; people; perfect; power; righteousness; saints; salvation; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; time; truth; wisdom; world cache: 37794.txt plain text: 37794.txt item: #246 of 323 id: 37883 author: Alexander, Gross title: Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler: His Life and Work date: None words: 116488 flesch: 82 summary: The old companions of his worldly life came, the worst elements of the city came, good men from all the churches came. He is consumed with the desire and somehow clothed with the power of making other men good, of making bad men good, of making the worst of bad men good. keywords: brother; brother holcombe; business; children; christian; church; city; day; death; dollars; drink; drinking; faith; family; father; friend; gambling; god; good; heart; help; holcombe; home; house; jesus; life; lord; louisville; love; man; men; mission; money; mother; new; night; people; place; poor; power; religion; self; sin; sins; steve; street; tell; things; thought; time; want; way; wife; work; world; years cache: 37883.txt plain text: 37883.txt item: #247 of 323 id: 38162 author: Ryle, J. C. (John Charles) title: Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians date: None words: 171814 flesch: 85 summary: Christ's freemen are free from the _fear of man_. Sermons, and books, and tracts, and committee meetings, and the company of good men, are all good in their way; but they will never make up for the neglect of private prayer. keywords: ask; bible; body; book; charity; children; christ; christian; church; come; day; death; die; earth; end; faith; family; father; feel; gate; god; good; grace; happiness; heart; heaven; holy; home; hope; iii; jesus christ; john; know; life; live; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; men; mind; new; paper; paul; people; place; prayer; real; religion; right; scripture; shall; sickness; sin; sins; soul; speak; spirit; state; subject; tell; things; thou; time; want; way; words; work; world; zeal cache: 38162.txt plain text: 38162.txt item: #248 of 323 id: 38227 author: Anonymous title: The Rainbow, After the Thunder-Storm date: None words: 2555 flesch: 90 summary: Yet what we shall behold of him there will fill us with _delight_, and not _terror_, as I heard you singing the other day, my dear-- 'Millions of years my wond'ring eyes Shall o'er thy beauties rove, And endless ages I was out with him when it thundered, and he said, 'Don't be afraid mamma; if we love God, nothing can hurt us.' keywords: julia; mamma; rainbow; storm cache: 38227.txt plain text: 38227.txt item: #249 of 323 id: 38330 author: Weylland, John Matthias title: The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. date: None words: 82393 flesch: 72 summary: [Illustration: Man speaking to other men in bar] The sick man was evidently startled by the appearance of the visitor, who set him at ease by observing, You must have plenty of time for reading, so I thought I would call and give you some interesting little books which I intended to have left in your room. Several men of his own class were standing by him, and though early in the day, groups of gin-drinking men and women had assembled in the four compartments into which the bar was divided. keywords: bar; bible; book; children; christian; church; city; conversation; court; day; door; effort; evening; friend; god; good; great; hand; home; house; influence; jesus; life; like; london; lord; man; meeting; men; mercy; missionary; morning; new; night; old; people; persons; place; poor; power; prayer; read; reply; room; salvation; saviour; sir; sunday; time; truth; visitor; way; widow; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 38330.txt plain text: 38330.txt item: #250 of 323 id: 38371 author: Morton, James F. (James Ferdinand) title: Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice date: None words: 28232 flesch: 56 summary: The exemption of church property from taxation is a direct and unqualified violation of every one of the foregoing principles. The exemption of church property from taxation forces them, as citizens of a secular state, to pay tribute to what their consciences condemn as organized vice. keywords: church; church exemption; church property; churches; city; community; country; exemption; fact; god; good; individual; land; men; money; new; pay; people; principle; public; religion; right; state; state church; support; taxation; way; work; york cache: 38371.txt plain text: 38371.txt item: #251 of 323 id: 38378 author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title: The Christian Sabbath: Is It of Divine Origin? date: None words: 2699 flesch: 73 summary: These things [circumcision and Sabbath observance], therefore, which were given for bondage, and for a sign to them, he [Christ] canceled by the new covenant of liberty (Against Heresies). Christians, therefore, should have nothing to do with a superstitious observance of days (Ibid). keywords: christian; church; day; observance; sabbath; sunday cache: 38378.txt plain text: 38378.txt item: #252 of 323 id: 38818 author: Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells) title: Miss Ellis's Mission date: None words: 50098 flesch: 76 summary: SMITH,--As I have had the pleasure of a little correspondence with dear Miss Ellis, our Society have asked me to express to you our deep sympathy in your loss. The advertisement's line or two of fine print, almost lost, apparently, on the broad side of the daily paper, inserted only once a week, nevertheless soon began to bring Miss Ellis letters that equally surprised and delighted us, showing that we had not over-estimated the demand for Unitarian literature in the West. keywords: books; church; conference; day; dear; death; ellis; faith; friend; god; good; help; home; hope; letter; life; little; man; miss; miss ellis; mission; papers; people; read; reading; rev; school; sunday; thought; time; tracts; unitarian; way; women; work; years cache: 38818.txt plain text: 38818.txt item: #253 of 323 id: 39022 author: Lobingier, Elizabeth Miller title: The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children date: None words: 34720 flesch: 88 summary: _ GOLIATH _looks surprised and disgusted when he sees_ DAVID. Through dramatization children give expression to these ideas in the light of their own interpretation. keywords: brothers; children; daniel; dramatization; esther; father; god; good; joseph; king; lord; man; people; pharaoh; play; scene; servants; son; story; thee; thou; thy; unto cache: 39022.txt plain text: 39022.txt item: #254 of 323 id: 39283 author: Ruskin, John title: Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church date: None words: 56570 flesch: 73 summary: Reasonable, business-like people would ask, why did I not make an effort to rescue my little barque out of the general wreckage, and why did I not, remembering that Mr. Ruskin had with much kindness freely bestowed the copyright on me, save the second edition and arrange with another publisher to carry the work on? Passing over several very pleasant meetings in London, let it be sufficient to mention that under the impulse of Mr. George Allen's encouragement, and cheered by the valuable assistance and co-operation of another friend, Mr. T. J. Wise, I agreed to carry forward this Third Edition with the full approbation and consent of Mr. Ruskin himself, though it should be said that on account of the state of his health, I have been unable to consult him on any of the details of the publication. keywords: 8vo; answer; book; christ; christian; church; clergy; clergyman; cloth; crown; day; edition; england; english; father; friend; god; good; gospel; heart; holy; human; kingdom; letters; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; nature; people; power; prayer; present; question; right; ruskin; sin; sins; son; state; teaching; thee; things; thought; thy; time; truth; use; usury; way; words; work; world cache: 39283.txt plain text: 39283.txt item: #255 of 323 id: 39622 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Church In Politics—Americans Beware! date: None words: 7947 flesch: 72 summary: That there can be state churches in any country other than the Catholic church. Had the document been created by infidels it could not have been more indifferent to the subject of church or religion. keywords: catholic; church; country; emperor; france; french; god; napoleon; pope; power; republic; rome cache: 39622.txt plain text: 39622.txt item: #256 of 323 id: 39839 author: Tyack, Geo. S. (George Smith) title: The Cross in Ritual, Architecture and Art date: None words: 35926 flesch: 62 summary: Processional Cross-- Archbishop's Cross--Pectoral Cross--Cross in consecration of churches--Cross of Absolution-- Creeping to the Cross--Feasts of the Cross--Invention and exaltation--Dedication to S. Cross or Holy Rood 28 4. Abbot's Way, Dartmoor, 107 Abingdon, 72 Absolution, Cross of, 40 Aix-la-Chapelle, Cross at, 23 Alpine Crosses, 88 Altar Cross, 45; Genevan opposition to, 46 Ampney Crucis, 57 Angelico, Fra, 26 Archbishop's Cross, 36 Argyle, Duke of, Executed, 70 Arms of Commonwealth, 13 Arms of Modern States, with Cross, 12 Aston Rogers, 115 Athanasius, S., quoted, 30 Augustine, S., quoted, 32 Aylburton Cross, 110 Badges, Cruciform, of Orders of Merit, 12 Baptismal Cross, 33 Benedict Biscop, S., 20 Bennet's Cross, Dartmoor, 107 Bisley, 114 Bitterley Cross, 57 Books, burning of, 82 Boundary Crosses, 107 Boxley, Rood of Grace at, 50 Bristol Cross, 70 Broadwood Widger, 62 Bromboro, 110 Buckland Abbey, 107 Burythorpe, 110 Catacombs, Cross in, 4; Crucifix in, 20 Catechumens signed, 32 Charing Cross, 92 Chasubles, marked with Cross, 55 Cheapside Cross, 92 Chester, High Cross, 72; Roodee, 51 Chichester, 75 Childe's Tomb, 104 Chipping Campden, 76 Chosroes captures True Cross, 8 Chrysostom, S., quoted, 29 Churches surmounted with crosses, 6 Churchyard Crosses, 56; Restoration of, 61 Cicero on Crucifixion, 3 Clearwell Cross, 111 Clement of Alexandria on Symbols of Christ, 15 Coins stamped with Cross, 6, 13 Commonwealth, Arms of, 13 Confirmation Cross, 33 Consecration Crosses, 40 Constantine, Conversion of, 5; Use of Cross by, 6 Constantinople, Council of, 21 Costock, Cross at, 40 Cornish Crosses, 57, 105, 107, 109, 114 Council in Trullo, 20; of Constantinople, 21 Coventry, 72, 75 Cricklade Crosses, 57 Creeping to the Cross, 41; at Dunbar, 42 Crosses in Catacombs, 4 Cross-form universal, 2 Crowle Stone, 103; Churchyard Cross at, 61 Crucifixes, Early examples of, 22 Cruciform Churches, 44 Crusades, 8 Cuthbert's, S., Cross, 39 Cyril, S., of Jerusalem, quoted, 29 Dagmar, Queen of Denmark, 24 Dartmoor Crosses, 104, 107 Dedications to S. Cross, 43 Destruction of Roods, 51 Development of Crucifix, 14 Dindar Cross, 61 Disley, 85 Doncaster Crosses, 75; Hall Cross, 103 Drumcliff, 103 Early Crosses, 3, 4; Crucifixes, 22; Symbols of Christ, 15 East Brent, 61 East Riding Crosses, 110 Edinburgh Market Cross, 65 Eleanor Crosses, 88 Emblems, Popular use of, 120 Ensigns charged with Cross, 12 Ephrem, S., quoted, 29, 30 Eucharist, Cross in, 31 Exaltation of Cross, 43 Eyam Cross, 58 Fathers, The, on Sign of Cross, 5 Feast of Exaltation of Cross, 43; of Invention of Cross, 42 Folkestone, 115 Font at Ilam, 23; at Tissington, 23 Funerals, Cross used at, 41 Fylfot, 16; on bells, 56 Geddington Cross, 92 Gladstone, W. E., restores Edinburgh Cross, 69 Glastonbury Cross, 71 Gloucester, 71 Graffito Blasfemo, 4 Harburton, 61 Headington, 112 Heathen deities symbolized by Cross, 1, 2 Helena, S.--see True Cross. Hempsted, 111, 114 Henley, 114 Heraclius restores True Cross, 8 Heraldic Crosses, 11 Hereford, preaching Cross, 86; White Friars' Cross, 112 Hickleton, 62 Howard, John, at Eyam, 58 Holy Cross Day, 43 Holy Face of Lucca, 22 Holy Rood as Dedication, 43 Holy Wells, 112 Hospitallers, Knights, 12 Ilam, Font at, 23 Imitatio Christi, Authorship of, 55 Iron Acton, 85 Iron Crown of Lombardy, 11 Iona, 100 Italian Art, 25 Jeffreys, Judge, 96 Jerome, S., quoted, 29 John, S., Knights of, 12 Justin Martyr, S., quoted, 2 Justinian places Crosses on Churches, 6 King's Weston, 115 Knights, of S. John, of Malta, Teutonic, 12 Knox, John, burnt in effigy, 70 Labarum, The, 5 Lamb with Cross, 16 Lanteglos, 57 Leeds Parish Church, Cross in, 88 Legends of the Cross, 116 Leighton Buzzard, 76 Leo the Isaurian, 21 Lincoln Crosses, 75; Well-Cross, 113 London Well-Crosses, 114 Lothario, Cross of, 23 Lucca, Holy Face of, 22 Mackinnon's Cross, Abbot, 100 Malmesbury, 76 Malta, Knights of, 12 Martin's Cross, S., Iona, 100 Marriages at a Public Cross, 75 Market Crosses, 65 Mayence Cross, 34 Meaning of Signing with Cross, 30 Mercat Croce, Edinburgh, 65 Merchant's Cross, Dartmoor, 108 Mode of Signing with Cross, 30 Mohammedan Rule in Jerusalem, 9 Monasterboice, 100 Monmouth's Rebellion, 96 Montgomery, Jas., 96 Myrroure of our Lady, 30 Nails of the True Cross, 10 Nevern Cross, 58 Neville's Cross, 88 Newark, 96 Northampton, 91 North Petherton, 61 Norwich, 85 Nun's Cross, Dartmoor, 107 Ordination, Cross in, 32 Oswald's Cross, S., 87 Palm Cross, 62 Papal Cross, 39 Patriarchal Cross, 38 Paul's Cross, S., 76; famous sermons at, 80; Jane Shore at, 81 Pawnbroking by a bishop, 85 Pectoral Cross, 39 Penzance, 105 Plymouth, 96 Preaching Crosses, 76 Pre-Christian Cross, 1 Processional Cross, 16, 34 Ravenna, Tomb at, 20 Restoration of Roods, 54; of Churchyard Crosses, 61; of Archbishop's Cross, 38 Right of Sanctuary, 115 Rivalry of Canterbury and York, 36 Romsey Abbey, 61 Roods, 47; famous examples, 50; Destruction of, 51; Rood of Grace, Boxley, 50 Rood-lofts, 48; use of, 49; destroyed, 53; restored, 54 Roodee, Chester, 51 Rouen, screen at, 54 Ruskin, quoted, 119 S. Ives, Cornwall, 57 Salisbury, 76 Sanctuary, keywords: altar; andrews; arms; art; bishop; book; bygone; case; century; christ; christian; church; churches; churchyard; churchyard cross; cross; crosses; crucifix; day; days; england; english; examples; fact; faith; feet; figure; form; hand; head; holy; holy cross; john; king; life; london; lord; market cross; memorial; paul; people; place; public; rood; sign; stone; time; type; use; volume; william; work; year cache: 39839.txt plain text: 39839.txt item: #257 of 323 id: 40428 author: Hopkins, Mark title: A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the Anniversary Election, January 2, 1839 date: None words: 8185 flesch: 63 summary: When the general question is whether human governments are to be obeyed, the answer is, He that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. * * I observe, then, that we ought to obey God rather than men, because human governments are comparatively so limited and negative in their bearing upon the great purposes, first, of individual, and second, of social existence. keywords: god; government; liberty; life; man; people; point; power; principle; rulers cache: 40428.txt plain text: 40428.txt item: #258 of 323 id: 4052 author: Johnson, Richard title: Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island date: None words: 12798 flesch: 77 summary: If, in direct opposition to this plain, precept, you will work and labour, as on other days, what ground can you have to expect that God will bless and prosper your undertakings? My times are in the hand of God. keywords: christ; day; death; god; gospel; holy; life; lord; sin; sinners; time; world cache: 4052.txt plain text: 4052.txt item: #259 of 323 id: 41258 author: Marsden, Samuel title: Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti date: None words: 96489 flesch: 66 summary: The Editor would make his kind acknowledgments to the Church Missionary and London Missionary Societies for the free use of the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Mr. Samuel Marsden in their hands; and to J. S. Nicholas, Esq., who accompanied Mr. Marsden on his first visit to New Zealand, for the use of a valuable manuscript account of his residence in New South Wales, containing much information respecting Mr. Marsden. Tooi and Teterree--Mr. Marsden's Second Voyage to New Zealand--Progress of the Gospel there--Shunghie--His ferocity--Mr. Marsden returns to New South Wales--Third Voyage to New Zealand--Malicious charges brought against him in his absence--A Commission of Inquiry--Its result--Letters, etc.--Approbation of the Government 129 The Bay of Islands, New Zealand (_Engraving_) 133 CHAPTER IX. keywords: bay; boards; captain; cause; character; chiefs; children; christian; church; cloth; colony; conduct; country; day; death; england; english; friends; god; good; gospel; government; governor; home; hope; house; islands; labours; letter; life; long; lord; man; marsden; men; mind; missionaries; missionary; missions; natives; new; new zealand; paramatta; people; place; power; present; public; religion; return; rev; ship; society; south; spirit; state; sydney; time; visit; wales; way; work; world; years cache: 41258.txt plain text: 41258.txt item: #260 of 323 id: 41505 author: Hervey, Walter Lowrie title: Picture-Work date: None words: 17997 flesch: 80 summary: Child Stories from the Masters, by Maude Menefee. Many good stories have rhythm, recurrence, repetition of the _leit motiv_. keywords: bible; book; boy; children; cloth; co.; good; lesson; life; mind; net; picture; point; power; school; stories; story; sunday; teacher; telling; things; time; truth; use; way; work cache: 41505.txt plain text: 41505.txt item: #261 of 323 id: 41993 author: Andrews, Silas M. (Silas Milton) title: The Sabbath at Home date: None words: 7591 flesch: 67 summary: If our tables are provided for on Saturday; if we bake that which we must bake, and seethe that we must seethe, and lay them up for the morrow, will not those members of the family, who attend public worship, have more time to devote to the reading of the Scriptures, to meditation, and other duties of Sabbath morning? In answer to the plea, that being worn down with the cares of the week, and its toils, we may, consistently with duty, lie later on Sabbath morning than any other, it may be asked, Have we a right to expend our strength during the week, so as to unfit us for the duties of the Sabbath when they arrive? keywords: day; duty; family; holy; home; lord; public; sabbath cache: 41993.txt plain text: 41993.txt item: #262 of 323 id: 41994 author: Murray, Andrew title: Money: Thoughts for God's Stewards date: None words: 13467 flesch: 81 summary: Money giving may be one of your choicest means of grace, a continuous fellowship with God in the renewal of your surrender of your all to Him, and in proof of the earnestness of your heart to walk before Him in self-denial, and faith and love. 12mo, cloth .75 =The New Life.= Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. keywords: christ; giving; god; grace; holy; life; money; poverty; power; spirit; world cache: 41994.txt plain text: 41994.txt item: #263 of 323 id: 42164 author: Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) title: Eli and Sibyl Jones, Their Life and Work date: None words: 85992 flesch: 73 summary: He and a few others organized a temperance society of which he was the secretary; and many meetings were held in China and the adjoining town. * * After this Eli and Sybil Jones and their kind friends and helpers attended many meetings at Nismes and at neighboring towns, going often to Congènies and Fontanés. Meetings at the latter place seemed especially opened and favored. keywords: chapter; children; christ; christian; city; country; day; days; dear; eli jones; england; english; evening; family; father; feeling; friends; god; good; gospel; heart; holy; home; house; interest; jones; land; leave; left; life; light; like; lord; love; man; meeting; men; mind; mission; morning; near; new; people; place; power; present; school; service; society; soul; spirit; sybil jones; thee; thought; time; town; truth; visit; way; wife; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 42164.txt plain text: 42164.txt item: #264 of 323 id: 42331 author: Moor, J. F. (John Frewen) title: The Duty of Submission to Civil Authority, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bradfield, Berkes, on Sunday, November 28, 1830, on Occasion of the Late Disturbances date: None words: 5645 flesch: 74 summary: While the laws of the land and the laws of God are one, in breaking the one we break the other, so that if it could be said of the early Christians living under a _heathen_ government, Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation,[11] with how much more truth may it be said of us, if, living under a _Christian_ government, we refuse to render unto all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. How few are obedient to the powers that be, as ordained of God! keywords: authority; god; governors; king; laws; man; submission cache: 42331.txt plain text: 42331.txt item: #265 of 323 id: 42558 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: The Art of Illustration date: None words: 47971 flesch: 71 summary: It is a dangerous weapon, it will be said, and many men will cut their fingers with it. This world impresses many men with far greater force than the world to come has ever done, because they look only upon the things that are seen and temporal. keywords: anecdotes; book; brethren; christ; christian; day; earth; god; good; gospel; house; illustrations; jesus; life; light; look; lord; man; men; miles; mind; people; place; planet; preacher; preaching; sermon; set; story; sun; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; work; world; years cache: 42558.txt plain text: 42558.txt item: #266 of 323 id: 42657 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Gleanings among the Sheaves date: None words: 36083 flesch: 85 summary: There never yet was a heavenly thought, a hallowed deed, or a consecrated act, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, which was not worked in us by the Holy Spirit. Thanks be unto God, the soft south wind breathes upon our soul, and at once the waters of desire are set free, the spring of love cometh on, flowers of hope appear in our hearts, the trees of faith put forth their young shoots, the time of the singing-birds cometh in our hearts, and we have joy and peace in believing through the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; christian; day; faith; god; good; grace; great; hath; heart; heaven; jesus; jesus christ; joy; life; lord; love; man; men; people; religion; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; way cache: 42657.txt plain text: 42657.txt item: #267 of 323 id: 4283 author: Ray, T. B. (T. Bronson) title: Brazilian Sketches date: None words: 32976 flesch: 75 summary: The priests hold services, to be sure, in the churches, but there are many churches in Brazil in which there has been no pretense of preaching a sermon within five years. Many churches have reached the point where they take care of all local expenses. keywords: bahia; bible; brazil; brother; captain; christ; church; churches; city; country; day; family; god; good; gospel; home; house; life; man; men; missionary; night; people; persecution; priest; rio; saint; school; state; time; work; years cache: 4283.txt plain text: 4283.txt item: #268 of 323 id: 43319 author: Durand, Guillaume title: The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments A Translation of the First Book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum date: None words: 109921 flesch: 71 summary: Sacramentality_, [Footnote 7] ran through all the arrangements and details of Christian architecture, emblematical of Christian discipline, and suggested by Christian devotion; then must the discipline have been practised, and the devotion felt, before a Christian temple can be reared. [Footnote 12] the Ascension of our Saviour by the Flying Bird; concerning which S. Gregory [Footnote 13] teaches, 'rightly is our Redeemer called a Bird, Whose Body ascended freely into heaven': keywords: account; altar; apostles; arrangement; baptism; bells; bishop; body; book; case; catholic; chancel; chapter; charity; christ; christian; church; church architecture; churches; consecration; cross; day; dedication; divine; door; doth; durandus; east; end; etc; example; footnote; form; forth; glory; god; good; gospel; hands; hath; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; iii; john; law; let; life; light; lord; love; man; material; matthew; meaning; men; mind; nave; oil; order; passage; passion; people; place; priest; psalm; reason; saints; saith; saying; second; set; signifieth; signify; spirit; subject; symbolical; symbolism; temple; things; thou; thy; time; trinity; unction; use; water; way; white; words; work; world cache: 43319.txt plain text: 43319.txt item: #269 of 323 id: 43870 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 11, November, 1885 date: None words: 19298 flesch: 85 summary: Ch., 279.23; A Friend, 100; Edwards Ch. Benev. Ch., 13; North Park Ch., 7.05; Ladies of Pilgrim Ch., 2.50; _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 46.30 Des Moines. keywords: 20.00; aid; association; christian; church; churches; cong; cong ch; const; fisk; friend; indian; ladies; miss; miss'y; missionary; mrs; new; north; people; rev; sab; sch; school; soc; south; south cong; welsh cong; work; year cache: 43870.txt plain text: 43870.txt item: #270 of 323 id: 43927 author: Walker, James title: A Sermon Delivered before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, Lieutenant Governor, the Hon. Council, the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the day of General Election, May 28, 1828 date: None words: 2839 flesch: 53 summary: Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers. There was not a wonderful genius among them all; but they were able men, and such as feared God, men of truth, hating covetousness. keywords: character; country; man; men; people cache: 43927.txt plain text: 43927.txt item: #271 of 323 id: 44053 author: Bailhache, Clement title: Sermons: Selected from the Papers of the Late Rev. Clement Bailhache date: None words: 54542 flesch: 76 summary: Christ bids us reason from both bad men and good men to God, and it is well for us that He does so. Many men, even professing Christians, suffer in consequence of sins known only to God and to themselves; secret luxuries and excesses, or a trifling, perhaps half unconscious, with some of the simplest laws of Nature. keywords: christ; christian; day; faith; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; heaven; holy; influence; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; man; men; paul; prayer; salvation; sin; soul; spiritual; things; thought; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 44053.txt plain text: 44053.txt item: #272 of 323 id: 44122 author: Nelson, William S. title: Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences date: None words: 28411 flesch: 71 summary: It was a practice with us for many years to arrange a special evangelistic medical trip in the spring of the year. The Orontes is quite wide and deep near its mouth and we crossed it on just such a wire ferry as I had seen many years before on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. keywords: aleppo; boys; building; church; city; day; days; friends; hamath; home; homs; house; life; man; men; missionary; money; new; people; place; road; school; service; syria; time; town; tripoli; turkish; village; way; work; years cache: 44122.txt plain text: 44122.txt item: #273 of 323 id: 44282 author: Hogan, Ben (Benedict) title: The Life and Adventures of Ben Hogan, the Wickedest Man in the World date: None words: 75506 flesch: 74 summary: The writer of these pages desires it understood that he has acted simply in the capacity of an amanuensis for Mr. Ben Hogan. Had it not been for the presence of young Ben, it may be safely assumed that the emigrant would never have gone forth from the Jew's place alive. keywords: allen; ben; ben hogan; body; business; case; chapter; city; country; course; day; deal; dollars; fact; fellow; fight; friends; game; girl; good; gymnasium; hand; having; health; hero; house; left; life; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; money; muscles; new; oil; pittsburg; place; set; strength; time; time ben; town; training; way; woman; work; world; years; york; young cache: 44282.txt plain text: 44282.txt item: #274 of 323 id: 44411 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 04: L. Beecher to Bushnell date: None words: 58076 flesch: 66 summary: Preparation for Consulting the Oracles of God 101 ARNOLD (1795-1842). Alive in God 131 WAYLAND (1796-1865). keywords: character; christ; christian; day; death; divine; earth; faith; glory; god; good; gospel; government; heart; heaven; human; influence; jesus; kingdom; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; object; pleasure; power; religion; sin; soul; spirit; things; thy; time; truth; unto; way; work; world cache: 44411.txt plain text: 44411.txt item: #275 of 323 id: 44420 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 05: Guthrie to Mozley date: None words: 55355 flesch: 70 summary: We have known men preach themselves out by incessant repetitions of the scene at Calvary,--a scene thrilling in itself, and on that very account not bearing to be presented in its details, every Sabbath day. Give other men their will, full swing to their passions, and they would be worse than they are; give that to him, and he would be better than he is. keywords: body; character; christ; christianity; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; glory; god; good; heart; heaven; holy; human; jesus; jesus christ; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; place; power; religion; son; spirit; things; tho; thou; time; truth; voice; words; work; world cache: 44420.txt plain text: 44420.txt item: #276 of 323 id: 44439 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 06: H. W. Beecher to Punshon date: None words: 54876 flesch: 70 summary: That which the structure of man is to the structure of the limpet, that which the universe is to a single country, the complex and boundless soul of Christ was to the souls of other men. To take the judgment and conscience of other men to live by, where is the humility of that? keywords: christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; eternal; father; form; god; good; gospel; heart; heaven; holy; hope; human; immortality; jesus; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; morality; motive; nature; new; place; power; present; religion; right; self; sense; sin; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; words; work; world cache: 44439.txt plain text: 44439.txt item: #277 of 323 id: 44441 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 07: Hale to Farrar date: None words: 55391 flesch: 72 summary: The creed of the Church of Christ, in its beauty and its power, has been flashed by the Divine Spirit upon their hearts and understandings; and they are other men. It is not within the ability of man to teach other men how to speak to the weary-hearted, the wounded in spirit, the sore in the innermost feelings of the being. keywords: bible; book; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; history; holy; infinite; jesus; liberty; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; place; power; prayer; save; sense; soul; spirit; things; thou; thought; time; voice; way; wind; words; work; world; years cache: 44441.txt plain text: 44441.txt item: #278 of 323 id: 44450 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 09: Cuyler to Van Dyke date: None words: 54715 flesch: 75 summary: Great men, it has been said by one of our own great teachers, are men who live very largely in their own age; that is to say, they are persons the drift and set of whose mind does not belong to the generation before themselves exactly, altho they may be possest of powers of insight, nor to the generation after their own age, but have much power of sympathy and comprehensiveness toward the interests and exigencies of their own time. Good men live forever. keywords: blood; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; end; faith; god; good; gospel; heart; hope; human; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; light; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; people; place; power; religion; sin; son; soul; spirit; temptation; thee; things; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 44450.txt plain text: 44450.txt item: #279 of 323 id: 44469 author: East, Timothy title: The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 220399 flesch: 63 summary: Mr. Roscoe._--Though Mr. Cole differs from you on some points of theology, there are many on which you agree; and I think you may, like some others who have embraced evangelical principles, still attend a ministry which does not belong to this specific denomination, as you retain the right of rejecting what you disapprove. She paused, and then said, Do you think that I may be permitted to see her? Why, Madam, replied Mr. Roscoe, the medical attendant has given express orders that no one be allowed to see her except the nurse. keywords: attention; authority; belief; bible; book; change; character; children; christ; christian; church; day; dear; death; divine; doubt; evening; faith; family; father; friend; gave; god; good; gospel; grace; happiness; heart; heaven; holy; home; hope; human; influence; ingleby; jesus; jesus christ; life; living; look; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; people; place; poor; power; prayer; present; principles; question; read; religion; rev; roscoe; salvation; saviour; sermon; sir; soul; spirit; state; stevens; subject; suppose; things; think; thought; time; truth; work; world; years cache: 44469.txt plain text: 44469.txt item: #280 of 323 id: 44769 author: East, Timothy title: The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 219230 flesch: 60 summary: Mr. Holmes was the second son of a respectable farmer, who rented a small estate in the county of Warwick. On this event taking place, Mr. Lucas retired from business, and at his decease, which happened about twelve months after that of his wife, he left the greater part of his property to Mr. Holmes. keywords: attention; bible; chapel; character; children; christ; christian; church; course; day; dear; death; divine; emma; evening; evil; faith; family; father; following; friend; god; good; gospel; grace; happiness; heart; heaven; holmes; home; hope; house; human; influence; jesus; left; letter; lewellin; life; like; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; opinion; people; pious; place; power; prayer; present; question; read; religion; return; rev; salvation; sir; society; son; soul; spirit; state; subject; things; thought; thy; till; time; truth; virtue; visit; way; world; years cache: 44769.txt plain text: 44769.txt item: #281 of 323 id: 44835 author: Various title: Devotional Poetry for the Children. Second Part date: None words: 8325 flesch: 91 summary: Up, be doing, little children: Up, be doing, while 'tis day; Do the work the Master gives you, Do not loiter by the way: Be up and doing, little children, Gentle be, and ever kind; Helpful to your loving mothers, E'en their slightest wishes mind. keywords: child; day; father; god; good; heart; life; love; thee; thou; thy cache: 44835.txt plain text: 44835.txt item: #282 of 323 id: 45272 author: Kellogg, Frederic B. title: Nine O'Clock Talks date: None words: 9842 flesch: 74 summary: Great men live and die, unrecognized and misunderstood. On the other hand, many men are coming back from the war who have lost the sight of their eyes, but it would be fatal for the world to imagine them all blind. keywords: christ; god; good; life; lord; man; men; new; people; spirit; time; way; world cache: 45272.txt plain text: 45272.txt item: #283 of 323 id: 4544 author: None title: The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 date: None words: 34302 flesch: 76 summary: For to him that will be soon sped of his purpose ghostly, it sufficeth to him for a mean, and him needeth no more, but the actual mind of good God only, with a reverent stirring of lasting love; so that mean unto God gettest thou none but God. And unto the time that thou mayst know what it is, work after those men's counsel that know their own disposition, but not after their disposition;[277] for such men should give counsel in such cases, and else none. keywords: affection; benjamin; dread; god; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; jesu; joy; life; lord; love; man; manner; men; mind; oft; pepwell; perfection; reason; saith; sensuality; shall; sight; sin; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; world cache: 4544.txt plain text: 4544.txt item: #284 of 323 id: 45564 author: Alexander, James W. (James Waddel) title: Patience date: None words: 5254 flesch: 75 summary: There is a third consideration, not to be omitted in our study of Christian patience. Patience_ is a certain temper of mind under suffering. keywords: christian; day; faith; god; life; man; patience; soul; work cache: 45564.txt plain text: 45564.txt item: #285 of 323 id: 45677 author: Crane, J. T. (Jonathan Townley) title: Popular Amusements date: None words: 32073 flesch: 70 summary: When young Church members become giddy and fond of worldly pleasure, the unconverted are encouraged to go on in their sins. Read the biographies of good men and women. keywords: amusements; chapter; christian; church; dancing; day; diversions; game; god; good; heart; horse; illustration; life; love; man; members; men; mind; need; novel; people; place; play; pleasure; power; reading; recreation; right; theater; thing; time; way; world cache: 45677.txt plain text: 45677.txt item: #286 of 323 id: 45795 author: Gravengaard, N. P. (Niels Peter) title: A Christmas Gift to the American Home and the Youth of America date: None words: 32449 flesch: 82 summary: The poor fellow righted himself a little and answered: What mother taught me; he then folded his hands and spoke the following verse with perfect ease, and without mistakes: Lord Jesus, who dost love me, O, spread thy wings above me, And shield me from alarm. If your soul then is seen to have suffered corruption, it is not fit to enter into eternal life, and you have nothing else to give God in its place. keywords: america; child; christmas; church; day; evil; faith; god; heart; home; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; man; miracle; people; power; prayer; soul; words; world cache: 45795.txt plain text: 45795.txt item: #287 of 323 id: 47538 author: Tweedie, W. K. (William King) title: A Lamp to the Path Or, The Word of God in the Heart, the Home, the Workshop and the Market-Place date: None words: 64364 flesch: 72 summary: While sporting with their own ruin, such men should be like another, and another, and another call to all who know the truth, to show by their life at least, what a Christian, or what Christianity is--how true it is that We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; and the following counsels may help some earnest spirit in that arduous work. In the light of eternity, such men are ennobled. keywords: bible; business; children; christian; conscience; day; death; earth; example; glory; god; good; grace; guide; hand; heart; heaven; high; holy; home; jesus; joy; law; life; light; lord; love; man; market; men; mind; nay; need; place; power; religion; saviour; sin; soul; spirit; things; time; truth; way; words; world; | | cache: 47538.txt plain text: 47538.txt item: #288 of 323 id: 47747 author: Percival, G. H. title: The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life date: None words: 45561 flesch: 68 summary: _ Translation edited by Maurice A. Canney, M.A. _See_ Crown Theological Library, p. 13. =Constellations=, Primitive, _Brown_, 56. =Creed=, _Christian_, 16. =Crown Theological Library=, 10. =Cuneiform= Inscriptions, _Schrader_, 9. =Daniel= and his Prophecies, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. and its Critics, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. =Danish= Dictionary, _Rosing_, 43. keywords: 4to; 8vo; book; christ; christian; church; cloth; consciousness; crown 8vo; death; demy; demy 8vo; development; doctrine; edited; edition; evidence; evolution; god; history; human; illustrations; immortality; individual; knowledge; lectures; library; life; liverpool; love; m.a; man; men; nature; net; new; pages; prayer; professor; religion; rev; royal; series; spiritual; suffering; theological; thought; translation; truth; university; vol; vols; work; world cache: 47747.txt plain text: 47747.txt item: #289 of 323 id: 47829 author: Various title: The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 02, February, 1879 date: None words: 21634 flesch: 82 summary: C. L. C. 1.00 Lodi. Ladies' Prayer Meeting, $5; E. G. L. and Mrs. W. C. H. $1 6.00 Norridgewock. keywords: 5.00; 50c; africa; association; atlanta; church; city; cong; conn; const; d.d; day; friend; god; ladies; lake; mass; minister; miss; missionary; mrs; new; north; ohio; people; rev; sab; school; soc; south; teachers; west; work; year cache: 47829.txt plain text: 47829.txt item: #290 of 323 id: 48100 author: Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay) title: The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. date: None words: 60368 flesch: 79 summary: Review of the whole; and then, if desired, two more exercises can be added by turning the lesson into _prayer_, and next to a _paraphrase_ formed of the verses. Words in italics are indicated by _underscores_, while spaced-out font has been closed up. keywords: answer; attention; bible; blood; books; children; christ; christian; church; class; classes; god; good; heart; instruction; interest; jesus; lesson; life; lord; love; man; meetings; men; new; order; parents; place; prayer; question; sabbath; scholars; school; school teachers; shall; sunday; superintendent; teachers; teaching; time; use; want; way; words; work; years; young cache: 48100.txt plain text: 48100.txt item: #291 of 323 id: 48182 author: Thomson, Andrew title: The Sabbath A Paper Read at the Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, Held at Geneva, September 2. 1861 date: None words: 6352 flesch: 51 summary: My own firm conviction is, that, in the matter of Sabbath observance, Scotland has nothing to be ashamed of in her principles, and England has much to learn. My heart's desire and prayer to God is now, and ever shall be, that He will bless this and every kindred effort to maintain the holiness of God's day, and to raise higher the standard of Sabbath observance. keywords: day; days; god; man; men; nature; people; sabbath; scotland; time; worship cache: 48182.txt plain text: 48182.txt item: #292 of 323 id: 48343 author: Anonymous title: Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. date: None words: 44727 flesch: 70 summary: Said Dr. Schomberg: I always have a couple of guineas before me, as an example, or broad hint, what they (the patients who consulted him) ought to give. 'To that portion of the public which cares about knowing such things, it has not been unknown for some time that Mr. David Smith, brother of the poet Alexander, is likewise in possession of the literary faculty, and even of the gift of song; but this beautiful little book, which will be the delight of all boys and the admiration of many men, so for as we are aware, is the first substantive work from his pen. keywords: 8vo; author; bishop; blood; book; church; cloth; crown; day; days; dean; doctor; duke; edition; england; father; fee; friend; god; good; guineas; heaven; house; hunter; john; king; lady; life; london; long; lord; majesty; man; men; money; new; nimmo; occasion; patient; people; physician; practice; preacher; preaching; present; price; pulpit; room; sermon; sir; surgeon; time; way; works; year cache: 48343.txt plain text: 48343.txt item: #293 of 323 id: 48370 author: Snape, Andrew title: A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor : the aldermen and citizens of London at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul on Monday the 30th of Jan. 1709/10 being the anniversary fast for the Martyrdom of King Charles date: None words: 6921 flesch: 68 summary: Such Jealousies and Surmises, such _Names of Distinction_, and forming of _Parties_, were the fatal Beginnings of that _ Before they had thus compass'd their wicked Ends, and were become Masters of all without Controul, whilst there was yet the Appearance and Shadow of Kingly Government, and nothing cou'd be valid without the Royal Sanction; even then, tho' they left him the _Name_, they arrogated to themselves the _Power_. keywords: blood; church; cou'd; day; god; justice; king; lord; man; men; naboth; person; royal; tho cache: 48370.txt plain text: 48370.txt item: #294 of 323 id: 4952 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands date: None words: 290460 flesch: 73 summary: yet it is very pleasant and more than pleasant to be reminded by word or by letter that prayers and wishes are being offered up for Melanesia by many good men throughout the world. Besides, to speak quite what I feel at present, though only so perhaps because my view is necessarily unformed, the natural order of things in such a district as this seems to be: gain the affections of the people by gentleness and showing real interest in their welfare, spiritual and temporal; show them in the Bible such teaching as the Church considers necessary (but not as yet upon the authority of the Church, or at least not so expressed to them); lead them gradually to the acknowledgment of such truths as these: that Christ did found a society called the Church, and appoint to certain persons whom he sent the Ministry of reconciliation; that if we have no guide but mere opinion, there will be thousands of conflicting opinions in the world even among good men, whereas Truth can be but one, and that practically this is found to be so; that it is no argument to say, that the Spirit so operated as to enlighten the reason of each individual to this extent, viz., that it may compose a Creed for him or herself; that the Spirit acts now in the ordinary, though not less real and heavenly manner; and that the infinite divisions among sectaries proves the fact to be as I state it. keywords: bishop; bishop patteson; board; boat; books; boys; brother; chapel; character; children; christian; church; coleridge; coley; comfort; coming; course; cross; day; days; deal; dear; death; doubt; england; english; evening; fact; father; feeling; fellow; friends; god; good; great; half; hands; having; heart; help; holy; home; hope; house; island; islanders; john; kind; knowledge; lads; language; left; letter; life; little; look; lord; love; making; man; matter; melanesian; men; miles; mind; mission; missionary; months; morning; mota; mrs; natives; need; new; night; norfolk; old; party; patteson; people; place; poor; power; prayers; present; reading; real; rest; return; room; round; scholars; school; sea; sense; service; set; shore; southern; speak; spirit; state; sunday; talk; teaching; thank; things; thought; time; trust; truth; vessel; voyage; want; water; way; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; years; young; zealand cache: 4952.txt plain text: 4952.txt item: #295 of 323 id: 50015 author: Schweitzer, Albert title: On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa date: None words: 55277 flesch: 73 summary: On cloudy days the heat was worse than on others, and the sun, although not shining directly on us, was said to be much more dangerous in such weather than at other times. But the inhabitants of the widely scattered stores must be warned in good time, so that they can bring their canoes to the landing stage and take possession of the goods that we have brought for them. keywords: africa; canoe; case; children; day; days; doctor; europe; forest; good; help; home; hospital; house; joseph; labour; lambarene; life; lopez; man; means; men; mission; natives; nature; negro; negroes; new; ogowe; order; patients; people; river; sickness; sidenote; sleeping; station; timber; time; village; war; water; way; white; wife; work; years cache: 50015.txt plain text: 50015.txt item: #296 of 323 id: 50586 author: Ellis, William T. (William Thomas) title: "Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message With his own words which have won thousands for Christ date: None words: 147617 flesch: 83 summary: Well,' I said to my friend, 'old man, you may have more at the end of the year than I've got--maybe I won't have carfare--but I'll be ahead of you. And the commissioner of the Poor Farm says there is a wonderful falling off of old men and women coming to the Poor House, because their sons and daughters are saving their money and have quit spending it for drink. keywords: baseball; bible; big; billy sunday; blood; book; boy; boys; business; campaign; chapter; chicago; children; christ; christian; church; city; converts; death; devil; die; earth; end; evangelist; face; father; feet; fellow; friend; girl; god; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; heaven; hell; help; holy; home; house; illustration; jesus; jesus christ; life; living; look; lord; lost; lot; love; man; matter; meetings; men; money; mother; need; new; old; pay; people; place; power; prayer; preacher; preaching; religion; revival; right; saloon; salvation; saved; saw; sermon; society; son; spirit; stand; street; sunday; sunday campaign; tabernacle; tell; things; time; today; want; way; whisky; wife; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 50586.txt plain text: 50586.txt item: #297 of 323 id: 50916 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: Evening Incense date: None words: 19292 flesch: 81 summary: May I spend each day as if possibly it were my last, so that should the midnight cry break upon my ears, Prepare to meet Thy God, it might be to me no unexpected summons, but as an angel whispering, The Master is come and calleth for thee. Thou art ever giving me impressive remembrances that at such an hour as I think not, the summons may come, Prepare to meet Thy God. keywords: day; evening; god; grace; incense; jesus; lord; love; night; prayer; sacrifice; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thy; world cache: 50916.txt plain text: 50916.txt item: #298 of 323 id: 52958 author: Julian, of Norwich title: Revelations of Divine Love date: None words: 82369 flesch: 80 summary: This is that which is meant where it is said afore: it was the image and likeness of our foul black deeds' shame wherein our fair, bright, blessed Lord God was hid. Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is a holy, marvelling delight in God; which is Love. keywords: beholding; bliss; chapter; christ; comfort; earth; endless; faith; father; god; god willeth; good; goodness; grace; great; hath; heaven; holy; jesus; joy; julian; life; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; manner; mercy; mother; nature; pain; passion; revelation; said; shewing; sight; sin; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; understanding; willeth; wisdom; working cache: 52958.txt plain text: 52958.txt item: #299 of 323 id: 54246 author: Mullois, Isidore title: The Clergy and the Pulpit in Their Relations to the People. date: None words: 72617 flesch: 75 summary: Such men accuse others, and yet never seem to reflect that despair is the greatest possible crime in the sight of God. Let us be on our guard against taking such men at their word, for we should thereby show how little knowledge we possess of the human heart. keywords: audience; charity; christian; church; classes; country; day; divine; faith; footnote; france; french; god; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; knowledge; life; love; man; men; mind; order; people; place; power; preacher; present; priest; pulpit; religion; saint; self; sermon; souls; speak; speech; study; subject; thing; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 54246.txt plain text: 54246.txt item: #300 of 323 id: 54291 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: Conscience and Sin: Daily Meditations for Lent, Including Week-days and Sundays date: None words: 30566 flesch: 76 summary: We commit sins of the first sort, that is, we are guilty of _sins of commission_, when we do anything, when we adopt any course of conduct, knowing it to be forbidden by God. God is just, and God would not condemn to everlasting death men because their first parents had broken His commandment. keywords: act; christ; conscience; course; evil; god; good; illustration; law; lent-; life; love; man; nature; right; self; sin; soul; things; wrong cache: 54291.txt plain text: 54291.txt item: #301 of 323 id: 55818 author: Andrews, John Nevins title: The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day date: None words: 34578 flesch: 72 summary: An anti-Sabbatarian writer of some repute speaks thus:-- As the Sabbath day appears to have been quite as commonly observed at this date as the Sun's day (if not even more so), it is just as probable that this 'stated day' referred to by Pliny was the _seventh_ day, as that it was the _first_ day; though the latter is generally taken for granted. And here again it is worthy of notice that we have from Irenæus only the plain name of first day of the week. keywords: book; chapter; christ; christian sabbath; day; day festival; day writers; days; eighth; festival; god; law; lord; men; sabbath day; seventh; sunday; testimony; things; time; week; work; years cache: 55818.txt plain text: 55818.txt item: #302 of 323 id: 57109 author: Taylor, James Hudson title: Unfailing Springs date: None words: 2607 flesch: 69 summary: JESUS said (v. 10) If thou knewest the gift of GOD, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee Living Water. There is the same difference between man's word and GOD'S Word; the latter tried by appropriate tests is proved to be Divine. keywords: god; living; thirst; water cache: 57109.txt plain text: 57109.txt item: #303 of 323 id: 57121 author: Murray, Andrew title: Humility: The Beauty of Holiness date: None words: 20879 flesch: 76 summary: The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it. And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all; or where it has not been made clear that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace, and that it is the soul, led through its sinfulness to be occupied with God in His wonderful glory as God, as Creator and Redeemer, that will truly take the lowest place before Him. keywords: christ; death; glory; god; grace; holiness; humility; jesus; life; man; power; pride; self; spirit cache: 57121.txt plain text: 57121.txt item: #304 of 323 id: 60377 author: Thomas, à Kempis title: The Following of Christ, in Four Books Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis date: None words: 64325 flesch: 82 summary: Some are preserved from great temptations, and are often overcome in daily little ones: that being humbled, they may never presume of themselves in great things, who are weak in such small occurrences. We blame little things in others, and pass over great things in ourselves. keywords: chap; christ; comfort; desire; glory; god; good; grace; great; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; soul; thee; things; thou; thou art; thy; time; wilt; world cache: 60377.txt plain text: 60377.txt item: #305 of 323 id: 60669 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Around the Wicket Gate or, a friendly talk with seekers concerning faith in the Lord Jesus Christ date: None words: 21891 flesch: 86 summary: Salvation is not by our knowing our own ruin, but by fully grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus. Faith saves us because it makes us cling to Christ Jesus, and he is one with God, and thus brings us into connection with God. keywords: 12mo; bible; christ; faith; god; good; heart; illustration; jesus; life; lord; lord jesus; man; salvation; sin; soul; thing; trust; way; work cache: 60669.txt plain text: 60669.txt item: #306 of 323 id: 62944 author: Williams, Roger title: Experiments of Spiritual Life & Health, and Their Preservatives In Which the Weakest Child of God May Get Assurance of His Spirituall Life and Blessednesse Etc. date: None words: 24013 flesch: 81 summary: [Sidenote: Distinction between spirituall _death_, spirituall _sickness_ and spirituall _weakness_] Yea as _Paul_ distinguisheth of _ The third is this holy, heavenly _inner_ man, of whose _health_ and daily _renewing_ keywords: answer; children; christ; david; desire; father; god; gods; health; heavenly; holy; hypocrites; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; people; sidenote; sin; soul; spirituall; strength; world cache: 62944.txt plain text: 62944.txt item: #307 of 323 id: 6583 author: Sainte-Foi, Charles title: Serious Hours of a Young Lady date: None words: 44170 flesch: 57 summary: And, even when they would all prove faithful to their trust, it is a noted fact that society, friends and companions wield a powerful influence over the mind and heart of a young girl, which, when allowed to continue, most invariably proves pernicious to her spiritual and temporal welfare. The same may be said of hearts in which the frost of age has not cooled the ardor and impetuosity of desire. keywords: age; book; chapter; christian; day; god; good; heart; holy; imagination; knowledge; life; light; love; mind; mother; nature; order; piety; society; soul; things; thoughts; time; virtue; woman; world; youth cache: 6583.txt plain text: 6583.txt item: #308 of 323 id: 6713 author: Lowe, Clara M. S. title: God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada date: None words: 51789 flesch: 72 summary: Remember, dear reader, the love of your Saviour for little children. He told me he did not even know who He was till he was taken into the Refuge; but now he knows about Him, and of His love for little children.' keywords: boys; canada; canadian; care; children; christian; country; day; dear; father; following; friends; god; good; heart; help; home; house; jesus; land; life; london; long; lord; love; macpherson; man; men; merry; miss; miss macpherson; morning; mother; new; ones; place; poor; praise; prayer; room; time; visit; way; work; years cache: 6713.txt plain text: 6713.txt item: #309 of 323 id: 6999 author: Orr, Charles Ebert title: How to Live a Holy Life date: None words: 44128 flesch: 86 summary: To such God will say, Behold, I will heal him. A little affection for the things of earth robs the soul of spiritual life. keywords: bible; christ; christian; day; desire; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; life; light; lord; love; man; prayer; soul; things; thy; time; walk; way; word cache: 6999.txt plain text: 6999.txt item: #310 of 323 id: 7026 author: Shaw, S. B. (Solomon Benjamin) title: Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer date: None words: 26377 flesch: 88 summary: Little children not only have a deep faith but a childlike trust in believing that God answers their prayers. [Illustration: THE CRIES OF THE DROWNING CHILD GREW FAINTER AND FAINTER] They threatened to duck him, for these wicked big boys had often frightened little boys into robbing gardens for them. keywords: boy; child; children; eyes; face; father; girl; god; heart; heaven; home; illustration; jesus; little; mama; man; mother; poor; prayer; sir; years cache: 7026.txt plain text: 7026.txt item: #311 of 323 id: 7038 author: Susag, S. O. title: Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag date: None words: 63954 flesch: 89 summary: We are not asking Thee for a pullman car--we will be satisfied with an old caboose--the distance is only 30 miles; so Lord, won't you please talk to the agent? After a bit she opened her eyes and I said, Brother Susag is here. keywords: brother; coming; day; days; dollars; evening; god; good; hands; help; home; house; left; lord; man; meeting; money; morning; number; o'clock; people; place; prayer; praying; right; service; sister; susag; time; town; train; way; wife; years; young cache: 7038.txt plain text: 7038.txt item: #312 of 323 id: 7338 author: Sell, Henry T. (Henry Thorne) title: Studies in the Life of the Christian: His Faith and His Service date: None words: 40242 flesch: 73 summary: Yet in doing the will of God man may even here enter upon a life full of joy (Hebrews 12:1,2). Through Christ man comes into personal relations with God as the Father (John 16:27) who cares for him as a son. keywords: acts; bible; christ; christian; church; father; god; good; heart; home; jesus christ; john; kingdom; life; love; luke; man; matthew; men; power; right; service; social; spirit; state; things; work; world cache: 7338.txt plain text: 7338.txt item: #313 of 323 id: 7957 author: Ober, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) title: Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea date: None words: 10547 flesch: 76 summary: They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. Each day brought its own dangers, which the fishermen met as part of the day's work, thinking little of them when they were past, and ready for whatever another day might bring. keywords: boat; christian; day; experience; fishing; fog; life; night; sea; thought; time; vessel; water; way cache: 7957.txt plain text: 7957.txt item: #314 of 323 id: 8427 author: Allen, Edith H. (Edith Hedden) title: Home Missions in Action date: None words: 33260 flesch: 65 summary: The history of the first Presbyterian Church of Portland, Oregon, is one of the outstanding illustrations of the fruitfulness of Home Mission work. The fact that rescue homes for Chinese slave girls are a feature of Home Mission work among Orientals tells its own story of degrading customs transplanted to America's shores. keywords: america; children; christian; church; city; conditions; country; day; faith; footnote; force; foreign; girls; god; gospel; help; home; home missions; hospital; ideals; indian; influence; land; life; love; man; missionary; national; need; new; people; place; population; power; school; service; sick; social; society; states; thought; time; training; women; work; world; years; york cache: 8427.txt plain text: 8427.txt item: #315 of 323 id: 8534 author: Tileston, Mary Wilder title: Daily Strength for Daily Needs date: None words: 73318 flesch: 85 summary: What I possess, or what I crave, Brings no content, great God, to me, If what I would, or what I have, Be not possest, and blest, in Thee; What I enjoy, O make it mine, High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. keywords: bear; care; day; divine; duty; evil; father; fear; god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; life; light; look; lord; lord god; lord thy; love; man; mind; peace; power; rest; self; soul; spirit; strength; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; trust; way; work; world cache: 8534.txt plain text: 8534.txt item: #316 of 323 id: 8579 author: Eddy, Daniel C. (Daniel Clarke) title: Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission date: None words: 56684 flesch: 69 summary: Many persons have become notorious around whose lives no true glory or dignity has appeared; and many men have been honorable in the highest sense who have lived unknown to fame, and unheard of beyond a narrow boundary. Speaking of the large stone church at Honolulu,--a church which cost twenty thousand dollars, and required the labor of many men for six long years to finish it,--Mr. keywords: cause; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; earth; friends; glory; god; good; grave; hand; heart; heathen; holy; home; house; husband; jesus; judson; labors; land; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; missionaries; missionary; mother; mrs; new; people; place; savior; spirit; time; work; world; years; young cache: 8579.txt plain text: 8579.txt item: #317 of 323 id: 8699 author: Laurie, Thomas title: Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary date: None words: 87452 flesch: 78 summary: Under an awful sense of the violation of covenant vows, for many days some of them did nothing but weep and pray. Hoimer and I have a meeting for the women every Sabbath, and on other days. keywords: children; christ; christian; daughter; day; dear; evening; father; fiske; friends; girls; god; good; grace; great; heart; home; jesus; leave; left; life; lord; love; meeting; miss; morning; mother; night; oroomiah; people; place; prayer; pupils; rest; room; sabbath; saviour; school; seminary; stoddard; teacher; time; village; voice; way; women; work; years cache: 8699.txt plain text: 8699.txt item: #318 of 323 id: 8906 author: Livingstone, W. P. (William Pringle) title: Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary date: None words: 135774 flesch: 77 summary: In the Government report for 1907 it was stated that a number of summonses had been issued by the District Commissioner against husbands of twin-bearing women for desertion and support, and in every case the husbands agreed to take the women back, the sequel being that other women in the same plight were also received again into their families. What Mary Slessor did, other women are doing in the same spirit of selflessness and courage, but with the same sense of powerlessness to overtake what is required. keywords: bush; calabar; canoe; care; chapter; chief; children; christ; church; coming; committee; country; creek; day; days; death; district; duke; face; food; free; friends; girls; god; good; government; great; ground; hand; heart; help; home; house; ikpe; itu; kind; lady; left; letters; life; love; man; mary; matter; miles; mind; mission; missionaries; missionary; morning; mother; native; new; night; okoyong; order; people; place; power; prayer; rest; river; school; scotland; service; set; slave; slessor; spirit; things; thought; time; town; village; way; white; women; work; world; yard; years; young cache: 8906.txt plain text: 8906.txt item: #319 of 323 id: 9057 author: MacDonald, George title: Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III. date: None words: 176655 flesch: 77 summary: God give me grace to be humble before thee, my brother, that I drag not my simulacrum of thee before the judgment-seat of the unjust judge, but look up to thyself for what revelation of God thou and no one else canst give. Its victory is in the man who, not content with saying, 'I was blind and now I see,' cries out, 'Lord God, just and true, let me perish, but endure thou! keywords: answer; care; child; children; christ; come; death; divine; evil; face; faith; father; glory; god; good; heart; heaven; human; idea; jesus; justice; law; life; light; little; live; lord; lord god; love; man; men; mind; nature; neighbour; perfect; power; prayer; righteousness; self; shall; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; thing; thing god; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; understand; way; word; work; wrong cache: 9057.txt plain text: 9057.txt item: #320 of 323 id: 9071 author: Parsons, John Denham title: The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion date: None words: 41550 flesch: 57 summary: These painfully obvious inventions cannot but incline broad-minded Christians to the belief that our Church went to great lengths in order to induce people to believe that the cross was essentially a _Christian_ symbol; which tends to show that there was a danger of their thinking otherwise. The references in question commence with the enquiry, Let us further ask whether the Lord took any care to foreshadow the Water and the Stauros? Afterwards we have a quotation of _Psalm_ i. 3-6--which likens the good man to a tree planted by the side of a river and yielding his fruit in due season--and the pronouncement, Mark how he has described at once both the Water and the Stauros. keywords: a.c; chapter; christian; christian cross; coins; constantine; crescent; cross; crosses; emperor; evidence; execution; fact; figure; god; greek; image; jesus; life; monogram; object; question; representation; roman; round; sign; stauros; sun; svastika cross; symbol; victory; word cache: 9071.txt plain text: 9071.txt item: #321 of 323 id: 9373 author: Drummond, Henry title: Pax Vobiscum date: None words: 7216 flesch: 81 summary: He came, He said, to give men life, true life, a more abundant life than they were living; the life, as the fine phrase in the Revised Version has it, that is life indeed. When Christ said He would give men Rest, He meant simply that He would put them in the way of it. keywords: cause; christ; joy; life; men; rest; world; yoke cache: 9373.txt plain text: 9373.txt item: #322 of 323 id: 9402 author: Maxwell, M. H. (Mary H.) title: Be Courteous, or, Religion, the True Refiner date: None words: 23213 flesch: 78 summary: They have always taken care of themselves, and can do this still without any help from little Emma Lindsay. If it be your minds, said Henry, rising to his feet, that we call at Appledale, and invite Miss Martha and Miss Emma Lindsay to be of our company, please manifest it by raising the right hand. keywords: alice; dora; emma; fanny; good; graffam; heart; lindsay; man; mary; miss; morning; mother; mrs; people; plain; poor; susan; thought; time cache: 9402.txt plain text: 9402.txt item: #323 of 323 id: 9957 author: Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) title: The Personal Touch date: None words: 25768 flesch: 85 summary: Many young men would turn to Christ if they thought they could, but it seems to them that the attraction towards evil is almost, if not quite irresistible. I asked her if she loved the Lord Jesus Christ, and she said, 'Yes, I do.' keywords: christ; christian; church; day; god; home; jesus; life; lord; man; men; night; people; salvation; soul; time; way; work; years cache: 9957.txt plain text: 9957.txt