Prayer for Colleges: A Premium EssayWilliam Seymour Tyler Dodd, Mead, for the Society, 1855 - 214 páginas |
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American colleges Amherst College apostles believing prayer benevolence blessing Christ Christian church college education common schools conversion Dartmouth College Dickinson College discipline duty earnest efficacy of prayer England established eternal evil exert faith and prayer Father foundation fountains friends gospel graduates Hampden Sydney hand Harvard Harvard College harvest hearts heaven holy honor human hundred influence institutions interest Jesuits labor learning leges less literary live Lord man-the Marietta College Middlebury College mighty wind ministers missionary moral Nassau Hall nations nature necessity never officers parents perpetual piety Pilgrim Fathers pious students political power of prayer pray for colleges Prayer for Colleges preach present professors of religion promise proportion religious revivals of religion rience sacred salvation seasons seminaries society souls Spirit teachers theological thing tian tion truth University unto Wabash College whole number Williams College wisdom word Yale College young youth
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Página 32 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Página 13 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Página 32 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Página 214 - Saviour, and longs to have him " see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied," would not delight, above all things, to see him honored by the cordial love and service of all the young men in our colleges ; and who that has the spirit of those holy men of old, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost...
Página 197 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples ; " The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
Página 122 - Him, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And never was there an audience more attentive to an able and eloquent preacher, or more susceptible of impression from solemn and weighty truth ; never a congregation more easily and" entirely swayed by the truth and the Spirit of God, like the waving corn by every wind of heaven, than is a congregation of college students in a season of unusual religious interest. The minds and hearts of students are peculiarly turned to each other,...
Página 213 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Página 61 - When youth are told, that the great men, whose lives and actions they read in history, spoke two of the best languages that ever were, the most expressive, copious, beautiful...
Página 182 - The works touching books are two: first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...
Página 142 - Classes enter and leave every year. Why should they not be converted every year ? Why should this not be distinctly contemplated, expressly aimed at, and specially provided for, like all the other regular exercises and arrangements of the institution ? This would not be inconsistent with the design of such institutions, or conflict with the studies or literary attainments of the student. On the contrary, it would harmonize with that design ; nay, more, it is due to that design: for colleges in their...