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Abbot AMERICAN EDUCATION beloved benevolent enterprise benign beseech bestowed Bible blessed blood brethren calculable charity Christian benevolence Christian public Church co-operate connexion continued support course crease crushed earth educated ministers effort enterprise their united eternal Europe exert eyes forward fastened felt forever friends of religion fund give a cent give this godlike glory gnash godlike enterprise Gospel GRADUATE SCHOOL grand grow hail hands happiness HARVARD UNIVERSITY heathen heaven hell hundred well educated Hundreds and thousands ignorance increasing INFIDEL infinite influence intellect kingdom left undone mand members of Christ ministry misery missions Norris obscurity patriot peasantry pelf perishing Phillips pious youth pity plod population poverty public to give purest raise rave rejoice religion to give republican rise sacred office salvation Samuel John Mills scholarship SCHOOL OF EDUCATION selfishness seven hundred millions Socie society spirit squandered swell things throne tions union vigorous wealth wretched
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Page 13 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 10 - The world are fast waking up to the conviction that the silver and the gold are the Lord's. My seventh argument is, that these exertions are necessary to bring to Christ the seed and the kingdom, the victory and the triumph, promised him as his reward. This world belongs to Christ. No other being has a right to erect an interest on this ground. And yet, after the lapse of eighteen centuries, two thirds of the earth remain in pagan or Mahometan darkness.
Page 15 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our sake became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich.