Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; Or, Pioneer Life in the West

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Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author, 1856 - 455 sivua
 

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Sivu 404 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Sivu 183 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Sivu 386 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children : That the generation to come might know them, Even the children which should be born ; Who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in GOD, And not forget the works of GOD, But keep His commandments...
Sivu 377 - Unto Him that loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood ; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Sivu 398 - Will you sport upon the brink Of everlasting woe ! On the verge of ruin stop — Now the friendly warning take — Stay your footsteps — ere ye drop Into the burning lake. 2 Say, have you an arm like God, That you his will oppose ? Fear ye not that iron rod With which he breaks his foes ? Can you stand. in that dread day, Which...
Sivu 413 - You think it your duty to call sinners to repentance. Make full proof hereof, and we shall rejoice to receive you as a fellowlaborer. "Let him then rend, and carefully weigh what is contained therein, that if he has any doubt, it may be removed.
Sivu 366 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
Sivu 29 - ... to suppose that so bad a man could ever become an Indian at heart, like their brother Girty; that the Kentuckians were all alike, very bad people, and ought to be killed as fast as they were taken; and finally, they observed, that many of their people had come from a distance solely to assist at the torture of the prisoner, and pathetically painted the disappointment and chagrin with which they would hear that all their trouble had been for nothing.
Sivu 376 - O, the transporting scenes that fell upon my vision as the emerald portals, wide and high, rolled back upon their golden hinges! Then, in its fullest extent, did I realize the invocation of the poet: "Burst, ye emerald gates, and bring To my raptured vision All the ecstatic joys that spring Round the bright Elysian.
Sivu 221 - When he had ceased praying, he still continued in a kneeling position. All the rifles belonging to the party had been left at the wigwam. There was not a weapon of any kind to be seen at the place of execution, and the spectators were consequently unable to form any conjecture as to the mode of procedure, which the executioners had determined on for the fulfilment of their purpose. Suddenly one of the warriors drew from beneath the skirts of his capote, a keen, bright tomahawk, walked rapidly up...

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