Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor: For Over Forty Years Pastor of the Seaman's Bethel, BostonB. B. Russell, 1873 - 445 pages |
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... coming from a church crowded with enchained auditors . He entered the porch , and stood hearing . The preacher went on ; and , at last , the sailor - boy became so interested , that he walked clear up the aisle , so that he could see ...
... coming from a church crowded with enchained auditors . He entered the porch , and stood hearing . The preacher went on ; and , at last , the sailor - boy became so interested , that he walked clear up the aisle , so that he could see ...
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... coming down to mingle with those beloved brethren whom he had left laboring below . It was a thought full of rapture and joy . Here the whole audience seemed deeply moved in sympathy , as though actually realizing the animating presence ...
... coming down to mingle with those beloved brethren whom he had left laboring below . It was a thought full of rapture and joy . Here the whole audience seemed deeply moved in sympathy , as though actually realizing the animating presence ...
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... coming thither on a stormy night , a good ways from his boarding - house , that his first - remembered jest was uttered : when she asked him how he got there on such a night , he answered , " On my mother's colt . " He was beloyed by ...
... coming thither on a stormy night , a good ways from his boarding - house , that his first - remembered jest was uttered : when she asked him how he got there on such a night , he answered , " On my mother's colt . " He was beloyed by ...
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... coming when you will be glad of a single drop of the sweat now run- ning down my back to cool your parched tongues . " He kept up his peddling and preaching - itinerancy for four or five years . We find him once 60 FATHER TAYLOR .
... coming when you will be glad of a single drop of the sweat now run- ning down my back to cool your parched tongues . " He kept up his peddling and preaching - itinerancy for four or five years . We find him once 60 FATHER TAYLOR .
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... coming to Boston to preach to seamen , she adopted the sons of the ocean ' as her sons , her fidelity was ceaseless . Never did she forget them in the meet- ings or at home : they were her accepted burden . A sailor - boy sitting before ...
... coming to Boston to preach to seamen , she adopted the sons of the ocean ' as her sons , her fidelity was ceaseless . Never did she forget them in the meet- ings or at home : they were her accepted burden . A sailor - boy sitting before ...
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Page 390 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 391 - For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut...
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Page 180 - And he led them forth by the right way, That they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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