PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 10
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THIRDS 362 THIRTY YEARS' WAR tant events. He died Jlay 17, 1853. Dryander's dis- course delivered at the tuiitral ulTlnlo was published at Halle in 1853; and a brief characterization oCTliilo was given by iMeier in the IJnUi^'chvr SektionskitUdiy (1853- 64); and another in Can re is.- Lea-ikon d. (ieyeiaairt (1841 )…
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Thirst (X'm, diipoc) is a painful natural sensation occasioned by the absence of moistening liquors from the stomach. As this sensation is acconqianied by vehe- ment desire, the terra is sometimes used in Scripture, in a moral sense, for a mental desire, as in Jer. ii, 25, '■ With- hold thy throat from thirst; but thou…
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4. Third Stage of the War. — Gustavus landed on the island of Usedom, in June, 1630, and drove away the im- perial garrisons from Pomeraniaand Mecklenburg, where he reinstated the expelled princes. He tlien formed alliances with Hesse, Saxe - Weimar, Magdeburg, and France ; and was afterwards joined by the electors of …
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iiid the setting sun n the right of Pho- or (I'eor). son, behind the road which leads to the west on the left of Knphaiii. [AnotherMS. reads Ge- briel, Cydisciis, and Ka- phaini, "fir Bihil, Edisse, aud Kapliain.] Hebrew version of the passage, and may be pointed in two ways, so as to mean eitlier "from the inhabita…
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THOLUCK 36; THOLUCK ticulm; The third of these works appeared in 1826, and was one of learning — Speculations Dj't/ic Later Oriental- ists respecting the Doctrine of the Trinity. Wliile at Berlin, the great crisis in his religions life was approaching, and actually took place. In order to understand this, it is nec…
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The state of things which he found when he went to Halle in 1826 is described by himself as follows : "It is universally known how a dead orthodoxy had, throughout the 17th century, been predominant in Ger- man churches and universities. . . . Almost thrmighont the breadth of the country the tendency to 'rationnlism,'…
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" iJut, at the same time, the life of a professor is not all pleasure and enjoyment. If upon every word an echo would resound in' the awakened heart; if upon every warning spiritual breath green >ho(>is would spring up; if on every bestowal of a gift there would follow iis recep- tion— then it would be nothing but enjo…
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THOMAS 367 THOMAS ing telegram to Dr. Schaff, who was then at Stuttgart, announcing his death, together with his last words: "Ham.k, June 10,1877. "This day, at4 o'clock P. M., my dear husband, Dr. Au- gust Thohick, after long suffering, i;ei]tly entered into that blessed rest for which lie had l)een longing from t…
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(«.) The first trait is found in his speech when our Lord determined to face the dangers that awaited liim in Jud;ea on his journey to Bctliany. Thomas said to. his fellow-disciiik'S. " Let us also go (Ka\ i)f^ific'), that we may die with him" (John xi, 16). He entertained no hope of his escape — he looked on the journ…
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In the New Test, we hear of Thomas only twice again — once on the Sea of (ialilee with the seven disci- ples, where he is rai.ked next after Peter (.John xxi, 2), and again in the assemblage of the apostles after the Ascension (Acts i, 13). 3. Traditions. — Thomas is said to have been born at Antioch, and (as aljove s…
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THOMAS 369 THOMAS liberally endowed. See Eadie, Eccles. Cyclop, s. v. ; Far- rar, Eccles. Diet. s. v. See Nestorians. THOMAS {St.), Day of, a festival observed, Dec. 21, in memory of Thomas the apostle. It was held by the Greek Church on Oct. G. THOMAS {St.), Writings of. These are as fol- lows: 1. TnoM.E Acta {A…
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Thomas of Villanova. See Villeneuve. Thomas, Barnabas, one of Wesley's early heli> ers, was a native of Cornwall, England. He was ad- mitted on trial by the Conference in 1764 and preach- ed in Wales, and was likewise stationed in Cork. He was named in the deed of declaration. He at length desisted from an itinerant l…
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moved to Kentucky. He lived to a great age, and for some time before his death was nearly blind. The in- fluence of this faithful servant of Clirist was good and pennanent. See Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers, p. .5 1-53. (.1. C.S.) Thomas, David (2), a Welsh Congregational min- ister, was born at CoNvbridge, ISla…
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Thomas, Ed'ward, an Episcopal clergyman, was born in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C, Sept. 28, 1800, and received his early education at the grammar-school in Pineville. In 1817 he entered the sophomore class in the South Carolina College, Columbia, and graduated in 1819. He lived in Cambridge, JNIass., in order to studv a…
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Thomas, John (1), LL.D., an English prelate, was born at Carlisle, Oct. 14, 1712; was educated at the gram- mar-school at Carlisle, and Queen's College, Oxford. Af- ter his graduation he became an assistant at a classical academy, Soho Stjuare, London; then private tutor to the younger son of Sir William Clayton. He wa…
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Thomas, Samuel (3), an English Congregational minister, was born at Pontreych, Nov. 20, 1815. He graduated at Brecon College in 1843, and was ordained to the pastorate of F^benezer Chapel, Newport. Under his personal superintendence a new chapel was erccte<l, and the Cliurch membership greatly increased. In IStSO he re…
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Thomasius, Gottfriko, a German Protestant di- vine, was born in the year 1802 at Egenhausen, in Fran- conia. In 1821 he graduated at the gymnasium in Ans- pach, and prosecuted his theological studies at the uni- versities of Erlangen, Halle, and Berlin. In 1829 he was preacher at the Church of the Holy (iliost in Nurem…
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Thoni'oi (Bo^toi', Vulg. Coesi), a corrupt (ireek form (1 Esdr. V, ;)2) of the Ileb. name (^lizra ii, 53; Xeh. vii, 55) T.VMAIl or THA.MAII (4. v.). Thompson, Alexander Scroggs, a Presbyte- rian minister, was born April 28, 18o-l, at Big Spring (Springfield), Cumberland Co., Pa. He received his early education at Newv…
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Thompson, George C, a INIethodist Episcopal minister, was bmii at Nanticoke, Luzerne Co., Pa., Jan, 15, 1817. He was converted in December, 1832, edu- cated at Cazenovia Seminary, licensed to preach Aug. 6, 1836, received on trial in the Oneida Conference in 1840, and appointed to Dundaff Station: in 1841, to Montrose …
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t was resolved that there should be no private owner- ship in the building. In ]8t;3 the society paid off 25,000 of this indebtedness; the remaining sum of $40,000 was paid in March, 1864. Notwithstanding Dr. Thompson's immediate pastoral labors, he was always busy with his pen. In 1845 he printed a Memoir of David Hal…
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Thompson, Otis, a Congregational minister, was born iu 1773, and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1798. After his graduation he was a tutor in the university for two years (1798-1800). Having pursued his theological studies with Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, Mass.. he was settled for life as pastor of the …
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Thompson, Thomas, a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was liorn in Beaver County, l*a. ; awakened at a camp-meeting untler the jireaching of the Rev.William Swayze; admitted on trial in the Pittsburgh Conference in 1831, and appointed to Lcesburg Circuit. He labored as follows: Centreville, INIercer, Newcastle, Richmond,…
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Thomson, Edward, D.D., a bishop of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was born at Portsea, England, Oct. 12, 1810, and, with his father's family, came to America in 1818, settling, in 1820, in AVooster, O. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving his diploma when nineteen years of age, and comm…
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you appear? What skilful things can you perform? In this place no one is permitted to remain wiio does not distinguish himself in some art or science." Loki an- swered him that he thought himself to be a great eater, and did not believ^ any one was able to cope with him. " We shall see immediately," said the king, and …
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Thorn is the rendering, in many passages of the A. v., of eleven diflferent Hebrew words and two (accu- rately onlj' of one) Greek Avords ; but, as we will see below, there are no less than twenty -two words in the original languages of the Bible variously translated "thorn," "thistle," " brier," etc., and signifying t…
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THORN 380 THORX Zizyphus Spina Christi. (1. The full plant. 2. Details of stem, flower, and fruit.) prickles, fjrowing in pairs, the one straight, the other Somewhat recurved (Tristram, A't?,/. His/, of the Bible. p. 429). Some, however, have tixed upon Paliiirus uculeaivs, and others upon Li/ciiim horridnm, as the…
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7. CiiSnEK (P'^H; Sept. OKav^a, ff))Q tKrpioyujv ; Yulg. spina, paliurus) occurs in Prov. xv, 19, "The way of the slothful is as a hedge of ch.edek (A. V. 'thorns')," and in Mic. vii, 4, where the A. V. has "brier." The Alexand. MS., in the former passage, in- terprets the meaning thus, "The ways of the slothful are st…
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Ononis spinosa. 12. NAATsfTS Cj^!!!!?^) occurs only in two passages of Isaiah, in both of whicii it is translated " thorn" in the A.V. Tbus (vii, 18, 19), '"Jehovah shall hiss for the tiy that is in the uttermost ])art of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria; and they shall come, and sha…
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THORN 383 THORN Acacia surroniirled by a Brier Bush in Wnrly Saal, near Sinai. (From a phutosraph by the Editor.) chers de granit un mespilus voisin de roxyacantha." Dr. Koljinsou mentions it as called zarur, but it is evident that we cannot have anything like proof in favor of either plant. Tristram remarks (jVaf.…
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20. SiKi'li) (1310) is mentioned only once as a des- ert shrub (Isa. Iv, 13), "And instead of the brier (sir- pad, Sept. KOi'(>^>;, Yulg. urtiat) shall come up the myr- tle." Though this has generally been considered a thorn}' and prickly plant, it does not follow from the context that such is necessarily meant. It wou…
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See, in addition to the monographs cited by Volbe- ding. Index Progi-ammatum, p. 81 ; and by Danz, Wur- terb. p. 567, Bagot, Thorn in the Flesh (Lond. 1840); Princeton Review, July, 1863. See Paul. Thorn, Cojjference of, also known as " the Chari- table Conference'' (Colloquium Charitativum), was one of those efforts …
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TIIORN-HEDGE 386 THORN WELL The A'i(6A;, or Dhom {Zizyphus spina Christi). the psalmist alludes, " Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall sweep them away as with a Whirlwind" (Psa. Iviii, 9) ; where "the brightness of the flame, the height to which it mounts in an instant, the fury with which it seems to ra…
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Thorn ■well, James Henuy, D,D., an eminent Pres- byterian divine and educator, was born in Marlborough District. S. C. Dec. 9, 1812. He received a good com- mon-school training; prepared for college at theCheraw Academy, S. C. ; graduated at South Carolina College in 1831 ; and subsequently studied at Harvard Universit…
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Thoth. The Egyptian deity of written learning, the author of the mystical treatises on medicine and sacred literature, called by the Greeks the Hermetic books, and himself, as the author of them, Hermes Tris- megislus, and, in his character of introducer of souls in Hades, Hermes Psychopompos. He had many names and occ…
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The only other passage, if any, containing an allusion to Thrace to be found in the Bible is Gen. x, 2, where — on the h}'pothesis that the sons of Japhet, who are enumerated, may be regarded as the eponymous repre- sentatives of different branches of the Japetian family of nations — Th-as has bj' some been supposed to…
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The phrase " three and four," so often repeated (Amos i), means abundance, anything that goes on towards ex- cess. It finds its parallel in Virgil's well-known words, 0 terque quaterque beati (" O three and four times hap- py," .Ell. i, 94 ; see also Odyss. v, 306). 'I hree has also been considered, both by Jews and …
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Threshing (prop, d^tl; but sometimes T^'^'^'^H, to tread out, cikoativ; and occasionally li^l^). The He- brews made use of three different processes for separa- ting the grain from the stalk (comp. Isa. xxviii, 27 sq.), an operation always carried on in the open air. See Straw. 1. In the earliest period, and even late…
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As in the East there is no rain during the harvest season (Hesiod, 0pp. 558), the threshing-floors were in the open field, and were carefully selected and managed {'ViTgi\,Geo7-ff. i, 178 sq. ; Pallad. vii, 1 ; Pliny, Ilisf. Nut. xii, 32; xv, 8; xvii, 14; xviii, 71, etc.). The farmers remained on the corn-floor all nig…
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Kings i, 46 ; 2 Chron. vii, 18). The characteristic feat- ure in the royal throne was its elevation : Solomon's throne was ajiproached by six steps (1 Kings x, 19; 2 Chron. ix, 18); and Jehovah's throne is described as "high and liftetl up" (Isa. vi, 1; comp. Horn. OJyss. i, 130; iv, loG ; Curtius, v, 2, 13). The mater…
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ing the solemn recital of divine office. During mass, and on occasions when services took place at the altar, his throne was ])laced against the north wall within the sanctuary. INIost of the English thrones are of wood, ricldy carved, while abroad they are frequently of stone. At St. Mark's, Venice, the Cathedral of M…
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In honor of their guardian deity, there is a temple dedicated at Bindachul, near Jiirzapur, to the north of Bengal. When about to go out upon a murdering ex- pedition, the Thugs betook themselves to the temple of the goddess, presented their prayers, supplications, and offerings there, and vowed, in the event of succes…
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THUNDER 394 THURIBLE 17); and is introduced in visions (Rev. iv, 5: vi, 1 ; viii, 5; xi, 19; xiv, 2; xvi, 18; xix, G; Esther [Apoc] xi, 5). So in Kev.x, 3, 4, "seven thunders." See Skven. It is adopted as a comparison. Thus '• as lightning is seen before the thunder is heard, so modesty in a jierson before he speaks…
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Thundering Legion. See Legion, Thunder- ing. Thurarii, a name given by Tertullian to those who sold frankincense to heathen temples, and whose busi- ness could not be free from the imputation of idolatry, because it furnished what was necessary to the wor- ship of idols. Thurible, a censer used in some of the service…
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It is called in German Thyatira. carried off in a foray, conducted jointly by Eumcnes of Pergamos and a force detached by the Roman admiral from Canre, during the war against Antiochus. During the campaign of B.C. 190, Thyatira formed the base of the king's operations; and after his defeat, which took place only a fe…
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The principal deity of the city was Apollo, wor- shipped as the sun-god under the surname Tyrimnas. He was no doubt introduced by the Macedonian col- onists, for the name is Macedonian. One of the three mythical kings of Macedonia, whom the genealogists placed before Perdiccas — the first of the Temenidaj that Herodotu…
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Thym, Johann Frieorich Wiliielji, a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in Berlin, Sept, 5, 1768. and died there May 21, 1803. He wrote, De Vita Mosis a Philone Conscripta (Halle, 1796): — Versuch einer hi- storisch-kritischen Darstellung der jud. Lehre von einer Fortdauer nach dem Tode (Berlin, 1795) : — Theol.…
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Heiodian Coin of Tiberias, OJrerje— Legend in Greek " of Herod the Tctrarch ;" palm-branch and the date 33 (A.D, 29). i^ctierse— Wreath with legend " Tiberias." 2. Scriptural Mention.- — It is remarkable that the Gospels give us no information that the Saviour, who spent so much of his public life in Galilee, ever vi…
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Town and Lake of Tiberias, from the North-west. summit in Galilee. In addition to the language of the ' particular country, as Poland, Germany, Spain, from which they or their families emigrated, most of the ] Jews here speak also the Kabbinic Hebrew and modern Arabic. They occupy a quarter in the middle of the town, …
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basing. The only palliation of his monstrous crimes and vices which can be offered is that his disgust of life, occasioned by his early domestic troubles, may have driven him at last to despair and insanity. Tiberius died at the age of seventy-eight, after a reign of twenty- three years. The ancient writers wlio supply…
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Ti'dal (Heb. Tidal' ,hv-iT\, im\\em\i\c=fear [V^e- senius] or renoivn [Flirstl ; but, according to Leiiormant, Accadian =,9/-ea< son; Sept. QapydX v. r. Qa\ya\ Jo- sephus, QuSaXoQ, Ant. i, 9, 1; Vulg. Thadal), the last named (Gen. xiv, 1, 9) of the three subordinate "kings" who, in confederation with Chcdorlaomer, atta…
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TIGLATH-PILESER 402 TIGLATH-PILESER invasion cannot at present be fixed ; but it was appar- ently many years afterwards tliat Tiglatli-pileser made 11 second expedition into these parts, wliicli had more important results than his former one. It appears that after the date of his lirst expedition a close league was …
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Tiglath-pileser's wars do not generally appear to have been of much importance. In Armenia he re- duced the rebel princes, and afterwards conquered the city of Arpad after a year's resistance. In Babylonia he took Sippara (Sepharvaim) and several places of less note in the northern portion of the country ; but he does …
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history, as in Tobit (vi, 1), Judith (i, 6), and Ecclesias- ticus (xxiv, 25). The meaning and various forms of the word have been considered under Hiudkkel (q. v.). It only remains, therefore, in the present article, to de- scribe more particularly the course, character, and his- torical relations of the stream. 1. Th…
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Tiie water of the Tigris, in its lower course, is yel- lowish, and is regarded as unwholesome. The stream abounds with fish of many kinds, which are often of a large size (see Tobit vi, 11, and comp. Strabo, xi, 14, 8). Abundant water-fowl float on the waters. The banks are fringed with palm-trees and pomegranates, or …
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raTTGii/utcrei isov. 1. 1 Kings xii, 16, where " to his God (T^n^xb), O Israel . . . and Israel went to their God" (TTl?XP) is civen "to your tents ("ji^nxb) . . . to their tents" (Vbrixb), be- cause the separation of Israel from the house of David was regarded as a necessary transition to idolatry ; it was looked upo…
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TILE, IN ArchitilCture, is a thin plate of baked clay used to cover roofs. In England there are but two kinds of tiles in ordinary use, plain tiles and pan- tiles. The former of these, whicli are by far the com- monest, are perfectly flat; the latter are curved, so that when laid upon a roof each tile overlaps the edge…
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A profusion of good examples still exists of single tiles, and sets of four, nine, sixteen, or a greater num- ber of tiles, forming by their combination a complete design, and presenting, for the most part the charac- teristic style of ornament which was in vogue at each successive period , but examples of general arra…
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Tillage (prop. JTTizy, aboddk, 1 Chron. xxvii, 26; Neh. X, 37, work; i. e. " service" or " bondage," as else- where rendered; so occasionally "in", to "till," " till- eth," "tiller," etc., lit. worker; but 1^3, nir, Prov. xiii, 23, means Jidloiu ground, as elsewhere rendered). See Aguicultuke. Tillemont, Louis Sebasti…
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Tillotson, John, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sowerby, Yorkshire, in October, 1G30. He en- tered Clare Hall, Cambridge, April 23, 1647, and, grad- uating in 1650, was made a fellow in 1651. He left col- lege in 1G56, and became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, Cromwell's attorney-general. Ileceiving his fi…
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and when any of them were sick, be went to anoint them with oil and offer the prayer of faith, and thus frequently raised them up, while doubtless some of their sins were forgiven them. His presence with any Church was a benediction ; for if he found even a crooked godli- ness, it was precious to him in being godliness…
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