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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Warren
My dear daughter has from her earliest childhood had a pretty clear knowledge of the letter of divine truth, being, at the age of six, in great distress for fear she should never go to heaven. She was always very willing to go where the truth was preached, whatever part of the world she was in. At the age of…
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Grace And Glory
Vulgar minds have but very contracted ideas of the magnitude of that glorious luminary the sun. The most knowing of the children of men, form but very inadequate notions of the nature and properties of that grand source of light and heat. We daily see him however, feel his influence. This he incessantly sheds upon the whole creation freely. How…
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The Power Of The Resurrection
Have you ever noticed that throughout the Acts of the Apostles, whenever the apostles themselves were preaching, the theme was always the resurrection? You have it when they spoke to the priests concerning the raising of the lame man. You have it in the preceding chapter and in this chapter when they preached to the people. You have it in…
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The Life And Testimony Of Samuel Cox
We had the honour of speaking a few words over the remains of that venerable man, Mr. Samuel Cox, when his beloved family laid the mortal part in the grave, just at the rear of dear James Wells's vault in Nunhead cemetery, on Friday, June 18, 1880. We have attended funerals since 1820—sixty years since—we never saw one more respectably…
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The Lord Suffers His Dearest Children To Be Distressed
Such was the mournful complaint of David; yea, of Jesus too, the root and offspring of David. ‘Lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon Abraham, the father of the faithful.’ Gen. 15:12. So the Lord suffers his dearest children to be distressed; yet it is their privilege, and they are again and again exhorted, to ‘rejoice in the Lord…
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Who Will Build God’s Temple?
