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Excerpt from Five-Minute Talks for Young People, or the Way to SuccessHese Talks have been selected from many valuable articles of the late Dr. Richard Newton written for The Youth's World and other periodicals of the American Sunday School Union. They are written in that earnest, happy vein which was characteristic of the author, charming the reader by their sparkling simplicity, and captivating him by practical sense and great wisdom, enforc...

Excerpt from Rills From the Fountain of Life: Or, Sermons to ChildrenBut Wisdom shows a narrow path, With here and there a traveller.Now, there are six things which help to make a road pleasant to those who travel it, and all these are found in Wisdom's ways.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

Excerpt from Pluralities IndefensibleI.-that plurality of benefices with cure of souls, is contrary to the first design of parochial endowments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original forma...

Excerpt from The Great Pilot and His LessonsThe office of a pilot is a very important one. He goes on board of a vessel in order to carry her safely into the harbor which she desires to enter. There are, generally, many rocks and shoals and danger ous places about the entrance to a harbor. The captain, who has navigated his vessel across the ocean, is not always able to steer it through those difficult places. It requires the assistance of som...

Excerpt from String of Pearls, From an Old CasketThere are two things which specially characterize these extracts, Viz., eminent spirituality, and great concentration of thought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from The Right and Wrong Uses of the BibleMy children don't know anything about the Bible. I cannot read it to them, for I do not know what to say when they ask me questions. I no longer believe as I was taught about it: what, then, can I teach them?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work....

Excerpt from Bible ModelsIN ancient Rome it was the custom for fathers to put up in the halls of their dwellings statuesof cele brated men, where the children of their households might see them, and thus, perhaps, be in¿uenced to follow their example. This was-a wise Ihing to do, for it no. Doubt led many of the Roman boys and girls to admire the famous personages in the past history of their nation, and made them try to become like them.About...

Excerpt from Bible JewelsNatural jewels are so valuable that many of us can never afford to buy them. Nor is this necessary, for we can be happy without them. But these Bible jewels are a thousand times more valuable, and with out them we cannot be happy. Yet, valuable as they are, the poorest person who reads this book, whether young or old, may become the owner of all the Bible jewels of which it speaks. And this is the reason why this book ...

Excerpt from Bible Bulwarks: Or a Sevenfold Argument in Defence of the ScripturesAnd when the Jew was complying with this injunction: when he was walking about Zion, or Jerusalem when he was marking well her bulwarks, it was an interesting position which he occupied. He was examiningr the ground of his trust - the foundation of his confidence as he settled down firmly in the convic tion that Jerusalem was a strong city, and that he was acting ...

Excerpt from The Giants, and How to Fight Them, And, Wonderful ThingsThe Philistine spoken of here, was the giant Goliath. N OW let us put the word Giant instead of the Philistine, and then the text Will read in this way: 80 David prevailed over the giant with a sling and a stone, and smote the giant, and slew him. All young people like to hear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Philistinism: Plain Words Concerning Certain Forms of Modern ScepticismIn the third and last section of the series, no complete defence of the Essential Faiths is to be expected - since none was contemplated. I sought, not to prove them true but, simply to indicate that no most modern knowledge can prove them false. I confined myself, there fore, to the consideration of the prime factors of those faiths. I did not attempt to carry...

Excerpt from Covenant Names and PrivilegesThat comes from IT the best bank, and the reasons for IN vesting IN IT the things prepared for A prepared people christ's prayer for his people the servant OF god dismissed and rewarded the introduction To heaven the world OF light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important ...

Excerpt from The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3Philip had a friend named Nathanael. The next time he met him, he said, we have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. But Nazareth was a despised place, and had a bad reputation. Nathanael had a very poor Opinion of the place, and he asked Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him Come and see.An...

Excerpt from The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 2A covenant means a bargain, or agreement made between two or more persons. One of these persons promises to do certain things, provided that the other will do certain other things. For example, we read in Genesis, twenty-ninth chapter, about Jacob going to live for awhile with his uncle, Laban, in Padanaram, where Abraham had formerly lived. Laban and Jacob made an agreement or covenan...

Excerpt from Leaves From the Tree of Life: A Verse of Scripture With Words of Comment or Illustration, for Every Day in the YearThe chief means that He makes use of, in healing souls, is the truth about Jesus, of which the Bible tells us. He sent His word and healed them, says David.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an ...

Excerpt from The Life of Jesus Christ for the YoungBethlehem - Chapel where the stable is said to Bethlehem - Convent of the Nativity, Bethlehem from the North.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

Excerpt from A Series of Papers on Subjects the Most Interesting to the Nation in General and Oxford in Particular: Containing Well-Wishers to the University of Oxford and the Answers, Collected Together and Submitted to the Judgment of the PublickPrinted for W. Owen at Homer's Head near tetle-bar and (old by S. Parker, in Oxford.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

Excerpt from Bible BlessingsWhen the children of Israel had reached the borders of the land of Canaan, Moses sent some men to go up and see what kind of a land it was, and to bring back some specimens of its fruit. Among other things which those men brought, were some bunches of grapes, so large and fine that they had to be carried on a pole borne on the shoulders of two of their number. What noble samples those were of the rich fruit that gre...

Excerpt from Bible BlessingsWhen the children of Israel had reached the borders of the land of Canaan, Moses sent some men to go up and see what kind of a land it was, and to bring back some specimens of its fruit. Among other things which those men brought, were some bunches of grapes, so large and fine that they had to be carried on a pole borne on the shoulders of two of their number. What noble samples those were of the rich fruit that gre...

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