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The Presiding Elder To His Official Members Aug 2011

The Presiding Elder To His Official Members

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"DEAR BRETHREN: I have now become thoroughly acquainted with the condition, wants, embarrassments, and encouragements of all your Churches. My sympathies are fully enlisted in your behalf, and in your noble work. The Church has respected and honored you in calling you to the offices which you fill. God help you to fulfill that high and holy trust!"


Lay Aside Malice Aug 2011

Lay Aside Malice

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"Cruelty, hatred, malice, ill-will-all these are fruits of the flesh. Kindness, love, gentleness, goodness-all these are fruits of the Spirit. What, then, is a malicious man like? He is like Cain, who slew his brother; he is like the Jews, who crucified the Lord of glory; he is like the devil himself, the author of all evil. But what should a man be like?"


Letter To A Young Preacher On Minor Clerical Manners Aug 2011

Letter To A Young Preacher On Minor Clerical Manners

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A letter of advise about various manners that need to be employed by a preacher, including: table manners, hospitality, and visitation.


The Preacher's Study Of The Bible, Rev Jt Duryea Aug 2011

The Preacher's Study Of The Bible, Rev Jt Duryea

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"IT is the sole business of the preacher to interpret, illustrate, apply, and enforce the word of God as contained in the sacred Scriptures. He is not appointed to teach in any of the various departments of science, philosophy, secular history, or of domestic, social, and political economy. He has no call to enter the several fields of investigation described by these titles, except in so far as the special truths discoverable within them may be made serviceable for the elucidation and practical adaptation of that definite body of truth that has been revealed by the Holy Ghost. It is …


How The Pastors Took Up The Collection, Rev Ld Barrows Aug 2011

How The Pastors Took Up The Collection, Rev Ld Barrows

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"WE always notice with much interest the manner in which pastors take their public benevolent collections.. In no place or duty can we more readily and accurately discover whether or not they are men of taste, culture, and earnest simplicity, agreeable or repulsive, efficient or inefficient, than in this important department of their work."


A Presiding Elder's Suggestions To The Preachers On His District, Rev Gr Van Horne Aug 2011

A Presiding Elder's Suggestions To The Preachers On His District, Rev Gr Van Horne

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A list of things to do as a preacher, including: issues with probationers, new members, public worship, announcements, benevolent collections, parsonage, study, pastoral work, religious experience, financial guidelines, and reporting.


The Cabin Boy Bob Aug 2011

The Cabin Boy Bob

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A story of one small boy's kindness and how God used it to save a hard-hearted ship captain.


Hints To Young Ministers, Rev William Jones Aug 2011

Hints To Young Ministers, Rev William Jones

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"You are separated from the general business of life by being called of God to the work of the ministry. The Holy Ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereto I have called them." Paul said to Timothy, "Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace." "And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." Your ministry, therefore, is not a profession but a divine calling; not a department of life, of …


What Will Make A Death-Bed Easy? Aug 2011

What Will Make A Death-Bed Easy?

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"I know of no prayer I ever offered, no service I ever performed, but there has been such a mixture of what was wrong in it, that, instead of commending me to the favor of God, I needed his pardon through Christ for the same. I have no hope in what I have been or done, yet I am full of confidence; and this is my Confidence - there is a hope set before me; I have fled, I still flee, for refuge to that hope; in Christ I trust; in him I have strong consolation, and shall assuredly be …


The Necessity Of Repentance, Rev J. Edmondson Aug 2011

The Necessity Of Repentance, Rev J. Edmondson

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"THE greatest sufferers in this world are not always the greatest sinners. We have clear proofs of this in the case of Job, and in the two cases mentioned in the preceding verses. "Suppose ye," says Christ, "that those Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices, or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." From these words we shall consider what is implied in repentance, and then …


To-Day! To-Day! A True Story Aug 2011

To-Day! To-Day! A True Story

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A story about a young man's sudden death and the writer's appeal to the reader to decide for Christ today.


Do You Know The Way? Aug 2011

Do You Know The Way?

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"YOU are, doubtless, aware that the Bible speaks of the condition of unpardoned sinners as most perilous. It is declared that God is angry with the wicked every day; that, though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished; .... You, perhaps, even now feel a reluctance to abandon yourself to such a dread possibility, and would gladly avail yourself of any means to escape. You believe in the Scriptures, are concerned to find so much previously unobserved danger, and would fain hasten away from the mouth of the yawning pit. You would fly; but whither would you …


He Was Praying Aug 2011

He Was Praying

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What was Jesus doing when ...the Spirit God descended on him? ...he was transfigured? ...He was in the garden of Gethsemane? What was Daniel doing when the angel Gabriel appeared? What was the congregation of Israel doing when Gabriel appeared to Zacharias? ...


Understanding Mates, Marriage, Samuel Blanco Aug 2011

Understanding Mates, Marriage, Samuel Blanco

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No abstract provided.


A Service For The Worship Of God In Celebration Of The Life And Resurrection Of Jonathan Todd Cannon, Timothy M. Warner Aug 2011

A Service For The Worship Of God In Celebration Of The Life And Resurrection Of Jonathan Todd Cannon, Timothy M. Warner

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No abstract provided.


On Which Side? Aug 2011

On Which Side?

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"None can be neutral where God and the Saviour are concerned. All who are not the decided friends of Christ are considered by him decided foes; for he has said, 'He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." "


Anti-Annihilation - Tract Iii, Rev Nd George Aug 2011

Anti-Annihilation - Tract Iii, Rev Nd George

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"By employing the unauthorized mode of interpretation that annihilationists of the materialistic school use in connection with certain texts to estab1ish their doctrine, we can prove most conclusively by Scripture testimony that not only is annihilation the doom of the wicked, but of the righteous also. Bear in mind the doctrine, namely: that man is not a compound being, consisting of body and soul, but is a unit; that the man is but living, organized dust; that at death, he ceases to be, and without the resurrection he has no future life."


The Picture Album Aug 2011

The Picture Album

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The photograph is a wonderful invention. "But there is a more wonderful, more important, and more interesting work than this continually going on in every human soul, which may he compared to the process above described, and which may be called the moral photograph. A prepared tablet, most wonderfully made, exists within us, on which the light is painting and fixing scenes and objects which can be called forth for our own observation, and which will all hereafter be brought out and spread in order before us, to our honor or shame, our joy or grief."


Have I No Father? Aug 2011

Have I No Father?

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"Unbelieving soul, ask now, Have I no Father? Ask it now, lest in the hour of danger and of death thou shouldst have to answer "No!" "God willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. Come, while yet there is room; come and prove that God is the Father of all them that believe. ... with true penitence by faith in Jesus Christ, the Mediator and Advocate, the Captain of our salvation; in whom, to every believer, God is well pleased to be a father and a Friend forever."


The Bankrupt Aug 2011

The Bankrupt

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"By reason of your sins you stand in relation to God as a bankrupt debtor to his creditor. To God as your Creator you owe perfect obedience, ... you owe great love, ... you owe great service, ... But you are not only a debtor, but bankrupt."


What Will The End Be? Aug 2011

What Will The End Be?

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"Reader, weigh well the probable, nay, certain end of the course you are pursuing. You may readily come to a conclusion on this point; for the end of all things may be expressed in these words - happiness or misery - heaven or hell! ... you have a never dying life - an accountable immortal soul."


Give Me Thine Heart Aug 2011

Give Me Thine Heart

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"The heart is required for God by the first and great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind." Luke x, 27. This commandment is binding on all on earth and all in heaven. No intelligent being can be exempt from obligation to love his Creator; and no child of man, from the still weightier obligation to love the divine Redeemer."


Anti-Annihilation - Tract Ii, Rev Nd George Aug 2011

Anti-Annihilation - Tract Ii, Rev Nd George

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"That national calamity is the theme of the prophet here, and not the punishment of individuals in the future state by annihilation, may be clearly seen by examining the short hook of Obadiah. Yet this brief sentence is considered a mighty prop in support of annihilation! It is a motto text printed upon the title-paged of some of their publications, and is a most gross perversion."


The Guide Aug 2011

The Guide

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"Reader, you are a traveler through this world, and you stand as much in need of a guide as he who journeys through the forest, over the mountains, or in the pathless desert. ... But the book of providence cannot teach you how you may attain everlasting life. ... The light of conscience is not, therefore, a sufficient guide. ... But because neither nature, providence, nor conscience can conduct you safely to eternal bliss, God has provided a sure and unerring guide. This is his revealed word-the Bible, applied by the Holy Spirit."


Anti-Annihilation - Tract Iv Aug 2011

Anti-Annihilation - Tract Iv

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This tract is in a question and answer format. It is missing a page or two.


A Methodist, Rev John Wesley Aug 2011

A Methodist, Rev John Wesley

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This tract espouses the marks or distinguishing characteristics of a Methodist. They have nothing to do with his opinions, but his beliefs.


Common Cases: Are They Yours? Aug 2011

Common Cases: Are They Yours?

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"Reader, these are a few of the many vain excuses made by persons, to justify their neglect of religion, which have come under the writer's personal observation. What now, fellow traveler to an eternal world, what is your state before God?"


How To Hear, Adam Clarke Aug 2011

How To Hear, Adam Clarke

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"Let it ever be remembered that the great Bishop of souls, the Lord Jesus, who had every ministerial qualification in absolute perfection, preached the everlasting Gospel to many who were not profited by it; and that, he departed from a certain place in which he could do no mighty works, because of the people's unbelief. Matt. xiii, 58. In this case it is manifest that the fault could not be in the preacher, nor in the matter of his discourse, but in the hearers only. The grand business, therefore, of the people is to inquire in the most serious manner …


The Great Advocate Aug 2011

The Great Advocate

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"Whether you wish to hear any more about this Advocate will depend upon whether you feel your want of him or not. The prisoners would not have cared about an advocate if they had not known themselves to be in danger. So neither will you unless you feel and know yourself to be overtaken by divine justice - a criminal having no excuse to offer, awaiting the day of trial, and uncertain what the end may be. Is this your case?"


I Did Just As You Told Me Aug 2011

I Did Just As You Told Me

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"Mary Cass had-though living an outwardly moral and respectable life-been ignorant about the way of salvation through Christ until the time of her illness, but as soon as she was taught the truth she immediately obeyed it. "I did just as you told me," was her own account of the matter. Now contrast this with the conduct of her mother. Mary's mother trifled with her opportunity and lost it."