...speak of divine things with great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. That text has been sadly misunderstood by me, as well...

...that he gave his only begotten Son to die for us. My sins have been many, very many. — yet is there more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine that went not astray." Soon after lie added, " I have pursued the world with avidity, and...

...individual for the next world rather than for this. They took to heart the assurance that there would be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance, and regarded as sinners all who had not experienced...

...Senator NEELY. I sincerely thank you. So far as I am concerned,, this is a case similar to that in which there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine from whom no repentance is required. Mr. GRONER. We come from adjoining States. I came from...

...Senator NEELY. I sincerely thank you. So far as I am concerned, this is a case similar to that in which there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine from whom no repentance is required. Mr. GRONER. We come from adjoining States. I came from...

...repentant heart in the sweat of his sober brow. The holy book gives us to understand that Jesus declared that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance; but that does not intimate that the sinner has more...

...all countries, especially as there is apparently a large premium offered to sinners. Christ says, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance" (Luke xv. 7). No wonder that sin abounds in all Christian...

...stifle their reason, and blindly to pay implicit obedience to the Priest : and, that " there wil1 le more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety tend nine just persons that need no repentance !" I challenge the world, to produce one sentence half...

...committed, who shall say what has been resisted?" They clinched the argument by quoting the Bible: "There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons."38 People moving west took the habit of benevolence with them. By 1829 Cincinnati...

...Thereafter it will feel and experience great wonders in itself, and. will recognise how true it is that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just persons, that need no repentance. He who prays aright, worketh inwardly with God,...