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The Baptists In America
Dear Brother in Christ,—-I have read the “Gospel Standard" for a little more than three years, and have felt a sweet fellowship for those generally whose sentiments and experiences have been presented through its pages. At my suggestion, also, a few of my brethren took it the past year, and some more are taking it this year. The doctrine it…
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A Book Review: The Trial Of Job, By Silas Durand
The book of Job is one of the most remarkable in the Bible. It contains the history of the trials of a man of whom God himself declares that he was a perfect man and upright, fearing God and eschewing evil. It fills the mind with wonderment at the extent of the good man's calamity, and the mystery of God's…
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The Life And Ministry Of Silas Durand
Silas Durand, of Southampton, Pa., son of Daniel and Asenath Durand, was born in Bradford County, Pa., June 5, 1833, and was the eleventh in a family of fourteen children. His childhood and early youth were spent on his father's farm. In his eighteenth year, he began teaching, and in 1858 entered the law office of Hon. H. P. Wright,…
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The Life And Testimony Of Ellen Tatley
From a child she was of a quiet and peaceable disposition, and was brought up by strictly honest and very "pious" parents, but they were Arminians. At an early age she had serious and solemn impressions of mind with reference to her never-dying soul and the realities of eternity. She became a member of the Wesleyan Methodists and a Sunday-school…
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Our Friend Lazarus
There are some very remarkable features about this very sacred incident. The shadows of death were already gathering over the dear Redeemer, as the cross at Calvary became nearer and nearer His experience. Here, in our text this evening, we have a woman who had some (we do not know how much), but certainly some discernment as to what lay…
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Two Immutable Things
It is the glory of the gospel that it reveals glad tidings to hopeless sinners. It finds nothing in us to entitle us to the favour of God: but it brings all hope and consolation to the soul, founded upon the most absolute promises, and the strongest assurance of an immutable God, as verily as it is impossible for any…
