item: #1 of 13 id: 11113 author: Cairns, John title: Principal Cairns date: None words: 44326 flesch: 62 summary: I have heard many preachers, said Dr. Cairns, in preaching his funeral sermon nearly forty years later, but I have heard few whose sermons at their best were better than the best of his; and his everyday ones had a strength, a simplicity, and an unaffected earnestness which excited both thought and Christian feeling. Dr. Cairns used to tell that on one occasion, long after he had got well used to the sound of the Berwick speech, he was under the belief that a man with whom he was conversing was talking about a _boy_ until he discovered from the context that his theme was a _brewery_. keywords: berwick; brother; cairns; chapter; christian; church; class; close; course; day; dunglass; edinburgh; family; father; friend; good; home; house; john; john cairns; lectures; left; life; man; men; minister; mother; new; place; presbyterian; professor; read; school; set; student; thought; time; union; united; university; way; william; work; years cache: 11113.txt plain text: 11113.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 13204 author: Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) title: Sermons to the Natural Man date: None words: 112856 flesch: 68 summary: Faith is that inward sense and act, of which prayer is the _expression_; as is evident, because in the same manner as the freedom of grace, according to the gospel covenant, is often set forth by this, that he that _believes_, receives; so it also oftentimes is by this, that he that _asks_, or _prays_, or _calls upon_ God, receives. But, we may go a step further than this, though in the same general direction, and remark, in the second place, that _elevated moral sentiments are no certain proof of piety toward God and man_. keywords: character; christ; christian; conscience; creature; day; death; divine; duty; earth; eternity; fact; fear; feeling; future; god; good; guilt; heart; holiness; holy; human; knowledge; law; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; nature; perfect; place; power; religion; righteousness; self; sense; sin; sinful; soul; spirit; state; subject; things; thou; thy; time; truth; work; world cache: 13204.txt plain text: 13204.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 13941 author: None title: The Divine Right of Church Government Wherein it is proved that the Presbyterian government, by preaching and ruling elders, in sessional, Presbyterial and synodical assemblies, may lay the only lawful claim to a divine right, according to the Holy Scriptures date: None words: 126818 flesch: 72 summary: Whatsoever formal power of church government Christ committed to any, he committed it only to those that were properly subordinate to his mediatory kingdom. Church power or authority for government in the Church. keywords: acts; apostles; authority; body; christ; church; church authority; church government; church guides; church members; church officers; church power; churches; cor; divine; elders; god; hath; holy; iii; jesus christ; lord; magistrate; matt; new; people; power; right; rule; ruling; scripture; spiritual; subject; testament; things; tim; viz; word; xii cache: 13941.txt plain text: 13941.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 14139 author: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) title: New Tabernacle Sermons date: None words: 99529 flesch: 81 summary: Many men you have known and loved have had few charms of physiognomy. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city, taking an attitude defiant of everything. keywords: ages; away; battle; bible; blood; book; children; christ; christian; church; city; coming; country; cry; day; dead; death; die; door; earth; eternity; fact; feet; field; friends; glory; god; good; gospel; half; hand; head; health; heart; heaven; home; hour; house; human; jerusalem; jesus; judgment; king; know; land; law; life; live; look; lord; lord god; lost; love; man; men; morning; nations; new; night; pay; people; place; power; religion; road; room; sea; sin; sins; soul; spirit; stand; sun; text; things; throne; time; want; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 14139.txt plain text: 14139.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 15251 author: Bonar, Andrew A. (Andrew Alexander) title: The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne date: None words: 73918 flesch: 79 summary: Perhaps there are many souls that would never have been saved under my ministry, who may be touched under yours; and God has taken this method of bringing you into my place. Many things lost somewhat of their importance in our view, when examined amid the undistracted reflections of the long desert journey, where for many days we had quiet, like the quiet of death, around us all night long, and even during the bright day. keywords: bible; brother; christ; church; day; days; death; deep; dundee; evening; father; fear; flock; friend; god; good; grace; hand; heart; holy; jesus; life; little; lord; love; m'cheyne; man; meeting; men; mind; ministers; ministry; morning; night; people; place; prayer; preaching; sabbath; sin; sins; soul; spirit; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; way; word; work; years cache: 15251.txt plain text: 15251.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 15693 author: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) title: T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him date: None words: 131002 flesch: 75 summary: The whole thing was a spectacle of the ignorance of men about great men. There are two men in every one man, and for this reason Mr. Blaine was the most misunderstood of great men. keywords: american; book; brooklyn; business; character; children; christian; church; churches; city; cleveland; congregation; country; day; days; dead; death; doctor; england; europe; face; fact; family; father; following; friends; general; god; going; good; gospel; governor; great; hall; hand; heart; heaven; home; hotel; house; human; john; know; lecture; left; letter; life; london; look; lord; man; meeting; men; milestone; minister; money; morning; mother; mrs; national; new; new york; night; pastor; people; philadelphia; place; power; prayer; preach; preacher; president; public; pulpit; read; rev; room; russia; senator; sermon; service; south; spring; states; street; summer; tabernacle; talmage; things; thought; time; united; visit; voice; war; washington; way; week; white; william; work; world; years; york; young cache: 15693.txt plain text: 15693.txt item: #7 of 13 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: #8 of 13 id: 19100 author: None title: The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation date: None words: 148186 flesch: 68 summary: Lord God, the eye of this kingdom is distempered, dim, and dark; and then how great is this darkness! Ye know in the beginning of the reformation, there was small likelihood that the work should go up, and be finished, because of the great power that was against it; yet the Lord brought it forward against all impediments; and put the cope-stone on it: that same God lives yet, and is as able to put the cope-stone on this work, as He was then, if ye believe. keywords: act; authority; bring; cause; christ; church; come; covenant; covenant god; crown; day; duty; enemies; england; faith; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; hand; hath; heart; high; holy; house; jesus; king; kingdom; kirk; land; laws; league; let; lord god; majesty; man; men; mountain; national; oath; parliament; people; persons; place; power; present; promise; reformation; religion; scotland; second; set; sin; sins; solemn; spirit; swear; thee; things; thou; thy; time; union; way; word; work; yea cache: 19100.txt plain text: 19100.txt item: #9 of 13 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: #10 of 13 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: #11 of 13 id: 42945 author: Whittles, Thomas D. (Thomas Davis) title: The Lumberjack Sky Pilot date: None words: 40301 flesch: 77 summary: Well, the prodigal was in the same boat, for they said to him as they said to you, 'Go up the river, old man. Mr. Higgins has labored with no thought of fame, but with devotion to God and man; and so I write not to exalt the missionary, but to introduce you to his interesting parishioners. keywords: bemidji; boys; camp; christ; christian; church; day; days; forest; frank; frank higgins; god; good; higgins; home; life; logging; love; lumberjacks; man; men; minister; minnesota; missionary; night; pilot; place; preacher; river; saloon; saw; service; sky; sky pilot; time; town; way; winter; woods; work; years cache: 42945.txt plain text: 42945.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 53576 author: Bryce, George title: John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies date: None words: 41845 flesch: 70 summary: MY DEAR SIR,--In the name of our Synod's Home Mission, and for behoof of our poor brethren at Red River in the Hudson's Bay Territory, I have to solicit your aid in obtaining for a time the services of Mr. John Black, whom we have fixed on as a fit person to make an exploratory visit to the settlement. Mr. John Black, as a member of the Relief Executive, took an active part in relieving the distress, and was in his element in comforting the discouraged and the suffering. keywords: bay; black; canada; canadian; church; college; company; country; day; days; fort; french; good; highland; home; hudson; indian; john black; kildonan; land; life; manitoba; miles; minister; missionary; new; parish; pastor; people; place; presbyterian; red river; rev; river settlement; school; scotland; selkirk; settlement; settlers; time; way; west; winnipeg; work; writer; years; young cache: 53576.txt plain text: 53576.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 9171 author: Ross, F. A. (Frederick Augustus) title: Slavery Ordained of God date: None words: 37583 flesch: 76 summary: It is that God has appeared in person, and _told_ man in WORD that he is GOD; and _told_ him first in WORD (to be expanded in studying _creation_ and _providence_) that God is a Spirit, eternal, infinite in power, wisdom, goodness, holiness,--the Creator, Preserver, Benefactor. You may tell the truth, Edwards replies, but I want _primary ground_ for my belief, and I must hold your word suspended until I examine into my reason, my feelings, my conscience, my will,--to see if your WORD _harmonizes_ with my HEART,--to see if what you reveal tends to _happiness_ IN MY NOTION OF HAPPINESS; _or tends to right_ keywords: bible; church; god; good; government; law; liberty; life; man; master; men; new; north; power; question; relation; right; rule; sin; sir; slave; slavery; south; southern; subject; things; thou; time; wife; word cache: 9171.txt plain text: 9171.txt