Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley: Or, Pioneer Life in the West

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Printed at the Methodist book concern, for the author, 1855 - 455 páginas
 

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Página 181 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Página 402 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Página 384 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children : That the generation to come might know them, Even the children which should be born ; Who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in GOD, And not forget the works of GOD, But keep His commandments...
Página 411 - You think it your duty to call sinners to repentance. Make full proof hereof, and we shall rejoice to receive you as a fellowlaborer. "Let him then rend, and carefully weigh what is contained therein, that if he has any doubt, it may be removed.
Página 364 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
Página 196 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 375 - To Him that hath loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood, to him be glory both now and forever.
Página 27 - ... so bad a man could ever become an Indian at heart, like their brother Girty — that the Kentuckians were all alike — very bad people- -and ought to be killed as fast as they -were taken — and, finally, they observed that many of their people had come- from a distance, solely to assist at the torture of the prisoner — and pathetically painted the disappointment and chagrin with which they would hear that all their trouble had been for nothing.
Página 364 - They were generally opened with a sermon, at the close of which there would be an universal outcry ; some bursting forth into loud ejaculations of prayer, or thanksgiving for the truth. Others breaking out in emphatical sentences of exhortation ; others flying to...
Página 219 - When he had ceased praying, he still continued in a kneeling position. All the rifles belonging to the party had been left at the wigwam. There was not a weapon of any kind to be seen at the place of execution, and the spectators were consequently unable to form any conjecture as to the mode of procedure, which the executioners had determined on for the fulfilment of their purpose. Suddenly one of the warriors drew from beneath the skirts of his capote, a keen, bright tomahawk, walked rapidly up...

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