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Plymouth Pulpit (1); A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Pulpit A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher - 1 Author:Henry Ward Beecher Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: J. B. Ford and Company. Subjects: Congregational churches Sermons, American Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the o... more »riginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Bless all the members of this Church. Bless the families that are represented in it, and all the dear children that belong to them. Be near to our Sabbath-schools and Bible classes. We pray that the superintendents and teachers and officers may be sanctified of Ood, and made able ministers of the werd. We pray that thou wilt bless not only those that are in the Church, bnt those that are in any way counected with it. Bless all the region round about it. Bless all churches. Grant that their couspiring lights may shine as so many stars of glory in the vanlt of heaven, and that the whole earth may receive the power and the blessedness and the sweetness of the Gospel of Christ. Send abroad those that shall preach, more and more. Bless those who labor for the establishment of schools and academies and colleges. Bless those who diffuse sound and useful knowledge from day to day, and from week to week. Bless those wh teach in poor and waste places, and among the neglected and outcast. May those who thus humble themselves into obscurity and contempt in imitation 01 their divine Master that they may raise up the lowest and make them wise unto salvation, have thy presence evermore with them; and in their hut and hovel may they find the light of God's countenance more than the light of the sun. And we prey that the leaven which they are infusing, the seeds of thought which they are implanting in dark mind...« less