John Strachan Quotes

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• To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling…
• In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully…
• This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.
• The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
• Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death…
• St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever…
• The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
• When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were…
• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human…
• In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the…
• In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are…
• In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater…
• The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical,…
• At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history…
• Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as…
• Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I…
• In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do…
• As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding…
• With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced…

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