An Apostle of the Wilderness: James Lloyd Breck, D.D., His Missions and His Schools |
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Page 188 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 94 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 104 - I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound : in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
Page 33 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 116 - Trusting in him, they mount up on wings as eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and are not faint.
Page vii - Yes, we are all there, — from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf...
Page 45 - ... pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarines :' Acts xxiv. 5. Of this calumny we find the unbelieving Jews also making their advantage against the Christians ; for thus they accuse them to the magistrates of Thessalonica, ' These who have turned the world upside down are come hither also :
Page 18 - ... men, whose term is expiring this year, have re-enlisted. It is a pleasant thing to learn that the Americans, in this war for their nationality, this war for the rights of man, have been so blessed in their efforts, that it has " cost them no sacrifice ; " that the barrel of meal has not wasted, nor the cruse of oil failed.
Page 107 - It assists the native to subsist by work, and it instructs him in the work ; so that there is scarcely an Indian family that has not a distinct garden under cultivation, and some of these are quite large. The government has built a sawmill for the Indian but a short distance from us, so that he hereby greatly encouraged to build and live in homes like the white man."1 In 1850 Dr.
Page 189 - Heaven saj'ing unto me, write, from henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.