Prayer for Colleges: A Premium EssayWilliam Seymour Tyler Dodd, Mead, for the Society, 1855 - 214 páginas |
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alumni American colleges Amherst College apostles believing prayer benevolence blessing CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT Christ Christian church college education common schools conversion Dartmouth College discipline duty earnest efficacy of prayer England established eternal evil exert faith and prayer Father foundation fountains friends gospel graduates Hampden Sydney hand Harvard College harvest hearts heaven holy honor human hundred influence institutions interest Jesuits labor learning leges less literary live Lord man-the Marietta College Middlebury College mighty wind ministers missionary moral Nassau Hall nations nature necessity never officers parents perpetual piety Pilgrim Fathers pious students political power of prayer pray for colleges Prayer for Colleges preach present professors of religion promise proportion religious revivals of religion sacred salvation seasons seminaries society souls Spirit teachers theological thing tian tion truth University unto Wabash College whole number Williams College wisdom word Yale College young youth
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Página 32 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Página 13 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Página 197 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples ; " The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
Página 213 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Página 126 - Christian excellence, who cannot forget often to remind them, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding...
Página 182 - The works touching books are two: first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...
Página 76 - To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers," it was ordered in all the Puritan colonies " that every township, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to...
Página 18 - And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases among the people.
Página 45 - God will interpose in behalf of his " elect, who cry day and night unto him," our Lord concludes with this searching inquiry : " Nevertheless " — notwithstanding the irresistible evidence, the absolute certainty of this interposition — " NEVERTHELESS, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth ? " Of all the touching and pathetic appeals that fell from the lips of him, who spake as never man spake, none is more touching, none more pathetic, than this, unless it be the severe,...
Página 61 - When youth are told, that the great men, whose lives and actions they read in history, spoke two of the best languages that ever were, the most expressive, copious, beautiful...