| Moses Waddel - 1818 - 190 páginas
...can be given here; therefore it will not be attempted. On the subject of worldly amusement, she was uncommonly earnest and forcible. In speaking on this...devotional exercises ? We are such frail creatures that we constantly require some excitement to lead us to God, and not to estrange us from him. Will... | |
| 1819 - 610 páginas
...friends, she said, "let no person, endowed with rational powers, call them innocent or harmless. How cnn that be innocent, which leads to a prodigal waste...amusement be harmless, which has a direct tendency to unjk the mind for devotional exercises? We are such frail creatures that we constantly require some... | |
| David Francis Bacon - 1833 - 630 páginas
...not be attempted. On the subject of worldly amusement, she was uncommonly earnest and forcible. Tn speaking on this subject to some friends, she said...devotional exercises ? We are such frail creatures that we constantly require some excitement to lead us to God, and not to estrange us from him. Will... | |
| rev. James Gardner - 1841 - 428 páginas
...they would assuredly find him. On the subject of worldly amusements she thus expresses herself:— " Let no person, endowed with rational powers, call...devotional exercises? We are such frail creatures that we constantly require some excitement to lead us to God, and not to estrange us from him. Will... | |
| 1850 - 654 páginas
..."Let no person, endowed with rational powers, call them innocent or harmless. How can that be harmless which leads to a prodigal waste of precious time ?...tendency to unfit the mind for devotional exercises ? VVe are such frail creatures that we constantly require some excitement to lead us to God, and not... | |
| Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1893 - 636 páginas
...mouths of babes and sucklings shall praise be perfected." On the subject of worldly amusement she was uncommonly earnest and forcible. In speaking on this...which has a direct tendency to unfit the mind for devotionaliexercises. We are such frail creatures that we constantly require some excitement to lead... | |
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