“LEICESTER, Jan. 17th, 1793. "DEAR AND HONOURED FATHER,—The importance of spending our time for God alone, is the principal theme of the gospel. I beseech you, brethren, says Paul, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“All his past knowledge of nature and of books, all his favourite reading of voyages and of travels which had led his school-fellows to… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“23rd.—With all the cares of life, and all its sorrows, yet I find that a life of communion with God is sufficient to yield… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“I felt ruined and helpless." Then to his spiritual eyes, purged of self, there appeared the Crucified One; and to his spiritual intelligence there… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“what a treasure, what an harvest must await such characters as Paul, and Eliot, and Brainerd, and others, who have given themselves wholly to… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Ryland had been always loyal to the journeyman shoemaker he had baptised in the river, and he gives us this record:—"If all the people… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“LEICESTER, Jan. 17th, 1793. "DEAR AND HONOURED FATHER,—The importance of spending our time for God alone, is the principal theme of the gospel. I… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“During his preaching for more than three years at Barton, which involved a walk of sixteen miles, he did not receive from the poor… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“1. Desirous of making an effort for the propagation of the gospel among the heathen, agreeably to what is recommended in brother Carey's late… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared that shoemakers had given to the… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“He was the first of the true Anastatosantes of the modern world, as only an English-speaking man could be—of the most thorough, permanent, and… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers at Calcutta,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and books which,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
