Words in Earnest: Or, The Path of Wisdom Made Plain |
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Words in Earnest, Or the Path of Wisdom Made Plain (Classic Reprint) William Wallace Everts No preview available - 2018 |
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amusements appeal associations become benevolence blessed Broadway theatre cerned character cholera Christian church cial commit conscience corrupting course crime criminal crowded house demoralization depravity desecration dissipation divine truth duty Eastern State Penitentiary employer entertainments evil excitements fear feeling fluences foster genius God's guilty habits happiness heart heaven human ignorance inflicted INFLUENCE OF CITIES institution intel interests J. W. ALEXANDER justice knowledge labor large communities learned look Lord means ment mental messen metropolis mind Moloch moral moral constitution nature Nehemiah ness night object offence passions penalty persons Phariseeism poor prevent principle profanation profes profession proper punishment pursuits reformation regard religion religious road to perdition ruin Sabbath sentiment social society soul spirit stage streets suffer taste temptations theatre theory things thousand tion true vagrancy vice vicious violation virtue virtuous wealth whole wickedness wise Xenophon young youth
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Page 261 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels : for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not : sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 261 - Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 260 - ... and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Page 112 - Are you in earnest? seize this very minute — What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Page 260 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ; or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee...
Page 239 - Thus saith the Lord ; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth ; and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts the holy mountain.
Page 158 - Resolved, that it be, and it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several states, to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof, and for the suppressing theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.
Page 14 - With dim mortality. It is not air That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The spoil of dunghills, and the putrid thaw Of nature...
Page 271 - Then I testified against them, and said unto them, " Why lodge ye about the wall ? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.
Page 53 - Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy...