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... leading Orient , but whither ? " Bible study corrects our individual stand- ards and measurements . It spreads out be- fore us God's plan for human existence . It helps men to put first things first ; to see big things big , and small ...
... leading Orient , but whither ? " Bible study corrects our individual stand- ards and measurements . It spreads out be- fore us God's plan for human existence . It helps men to put first things first ; to see big things big , and small ...
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... leading Bible groups or forming boys ' clubs for study , service , and athletics . The college man , fresh from school , enjoys studying and applying the social principles of Christianity . He would be lured into taking 33 COLLEGE ...
... leading Bible groups or forming boys ' clubs for study , service , and athletics . The college man , fresh from school , enjoys studying and applying the social principles of Christianity . He would be lured into taking 33 COLLEGE ...
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... leading campaigns for small Bible classes ; forming large organized Bible classes for men ; training Bible teachers in the life of Christ ; or in the social and political teachings of the Bible ; securing up - to - date reference books ...
... leading campaigns for small Bible classes ; forming large organized Bible classes for men ; training Bible teachers in the life of Christ ; or in the social and political teachings of the Bible ; securing up - to - date reference books ...
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... leading laymen who are college graduates . Last college year there were 2,308 stu- dents leading Bible groups in North Amer- ican colleges . Such students must be trained if the groups are to succeed in maintaining the interest 35 ...
... leading laymen who are college graduates . Last college year there were 2,308 stu- dents leading Bible groups in North Amer- ican colleges . Such students must be trained if the groups are to succeed in maintaining the interest 35 ...
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... leading Bible study groups . The school is located at Miyazu , on the west coast of Japan , and is largely beyond the reach of other Western influence . Mr. Caldwell often goes two months without seeing a foreigner . In one meeting in ...
... leading Bible study groups . The school is located at Miyazu , on the west coast of Japan , and is largely beyond the reach of other Western influence . Mr. Caldwell often goes two months without seeing a foreigner . In one meeting in ...
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Page 56 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 13 - The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow And hears its winding murmur, and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.
Page 42 - The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Page 56 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 22 - The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 42 - By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the interval between two eternities; and earns the blessings or the curses of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil, even as they also are earning their payment for their work?
Page 104 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 158 - He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God...
Page 56 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 42 - English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world.