Life of Rev. L. B. Stateler: A Story of Life on the Old Frontier, Containing Incidents... of Methodist History in the West and Northwest

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Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1907 - 356 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 336 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Pàgina 337 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Pàgina 335 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Pàgina 90 - When I tell my poor, blind people, after one more snow in the big council, that I did not bring the Book, no word will be spoken by our old men or by our young braves. One by one they will rise up and go out in silence. My people will die in darkness, and they will go on the long path to other hunting grounds. No white man will go with them, and no white man's Book to make the way plain. I have no more words.
Pàgina 90 - My people sent me to get the white man's Book of Heaven. You took me where you allow your women to dance, as we do not ours, and the Book was not there. You took me where they worship the Great Spirit with candles, and the Book was not there.
Pàgina 90 - I came with one eye partly opened, for more light for my people, who sit in darkness. I go back with both eyes closed. How can I go back blind to my blind people? I made my way to you with strong arms, through many enemies and strange lands, that I might carry back much to them. I go back with both arms broken and empty.
Pàgina 336 - For none of <us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we •die unto the Lord : whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Pàgina 148 - That they are decidedly opposed to modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention to interfere in the civil and political relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slaveholding states in this Union.
Pàgina 60 - The stranger's eye wept, that, in life's brightest bloom, One gifted so highly should sink to the tomb ; For in ardor he led in the van of the host, And he fell like a soldier — he died at his post.
Pàgina 18 - He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men §§ ; enabling them also to wrestle against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places |||| ; and He bruised * Luke x.

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