Vicissitudes Illustrated: In the Experience of Nancy Towle, in Europe and America

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authoress, 1833 - 310 páginas
The author's memoirs of her conversion and experiences as a traveling preacher in the United States, England and Ireland. Includes an account of her encounter with the Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio, a history of Mormonism, and her conclusion that it "was one of the most deep-concerted-plots of Hell, to deceive the hearts of the simple."--Page 150-157.
 

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Página 306 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Página 307 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Página 262 - And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God"? art thou come hither to torment us before the time ? 30 And there was, a good way off from them, an herd of many swine feeding.
Página 191 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Página 120 - Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness...
Página 54 - that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts...
Página 270 - ... the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven...
Página 233 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite : let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women : but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Página 275 - God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ! For love I sigh, for love I pine : This only portion, Lord, be mine, Be mine this better part...
Página 90 - If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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