Memories of Scottish scenes and sabbaths more than eighty years ago; or, Sketches of religious life among the peasantry of Ayrshire

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Andrew Elliot, 1902 - 78 halaman

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Halaman 57 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Halaman 78 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Halaman 52 - For over it the wind doth pass, And it away is gone ; And of the place where once it was It shall no more be known. 17 But unto them that do Him fear God's mercy never ends ; And to their children's children still His righteousness extends...
Halaman 72 - Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven : for the King will say of many who would be guests at his heavenly table, " Bind them hand and foot, and take them away, and cast them into outer darkness — there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Halaman 77 - It appears to be the aim and effort of these "liberals" or "modernists" to gain the control wherever possible of the missionary work of the Churches. God seems to be moving our missionaries to rise up and to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Halaman 58 - By this time all the ministers who were to assist on the occasion had arrived. Of such there were usually three and sometimes four. And it was no season of idleness or ease with them. Ample work was found for them all on Sabbath. After the dismissal of the congregation on Saturday,, the members of the church carefully and kindly invited to their homes those who had come up from neighbouring congregations to celebrate with them the death of their common Lord. In those days...
Halaman 61 - As ten of the clock approaches numbers are pouring in from the country, not only those who are wont to come thither to worship, but strangers as well, many on foot, some on horseback, some in carts, and a few in more comfortable conveyances. And the townsfolk begin to move in family groups with silent tread toward the Meeting House and the adjoining Green, the centre to which all tend on this sacramental morn.
Halaman 56 - Scotland where the 55 religious element predominated, will bear me out in saying that the coming sacrament threw its solemn shadow over days and weeks before. Conduct, which at other times might be indulged in, not being deemed in itself sinful, though bordering on levity or unlicensed enjoyment, was watchfully avoided as the communion season drew on. The walk became more careful. Mirth and everything that savoured of jollity were abjured and banned in view of the pending solemnity.
Halaman 20 - IN a dream of the night I was wafted away, To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay ; Where Cameron's sword and his Bible are seen, Engraved on the stane where the heather grows green 'Twas a dream of those ages of darkness and blood, When the minister's hame was the mountain and wood ; When in Wellwood's dark moorlands the standard of Zion, All bloody and torn, 'mang the heather was lying. It was morning, and summer's young sun, from the east, Lay in loving repose on the green mountain's breast,...
Halaman 15 - David, when he deliberately avowed that a day spent in the courts of the Lord's house

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