Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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T. Mason and G. Lane, 1890 - Methodist conferences
 

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Page 95 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 114 - He learned the trade of a carpenter, and followed it until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the 17th Connecticut volunteers, and served as private until the close of the war.
Page 116 - ... of General Armstrong to educate the head, the heart and the hand of the student, to make strong school teachers and skilled mechanics and agriculturalists, and his aims have been amply justified by results. General Armstrong was born of missionary parents in Hawaii. He was educated in this country. He was a soldier in the war for the preservation of the union and commanded a regiment of black soldiers. His was a pious and lovable nature which delighted to do the Master's work by reaching out...
Page 103 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, 0 ye my friends ; for the hand of GOD hath touched me.
Page 80 - Was the Character of each Preacher Examined ? This was strictly done, as the name of each Preacher was called in open Conference.
Page 118 - Ohio, where he remained until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, when he...
Page 98 - yes, without a cloud ! My Saviour's arms are open to receive me." To a friend who visited him shortly before his death, he said, " I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith...
Page 104 - Institution, paid him this high tribute : " Kinsman Atkinson is a young man of refined feelings^ ardent piety, and the best scholar in his class.
Page 91 - Wyandotte, to be supplied. OKLAHOMA COUNTRY. Alfred, to be supplied. Crescent City, to be supplied. Edmond, LA Doane. El Reno, to be supplied. Frisco, J. £. Robert».
Page 100 - ... old; nor did he ever manifest the slightest inclination to embrace new views of Church polity or doctrine from a mere morbid desire for novelties. No cunning of men or wind of doctrine could turn him aside from the deliberate convictions of his mind. His personal experience was so inwoven with the grand, fundamental doctrines of the Cross, that he could not be otherwise than firmly "rooted and grounded" in the faith delivered to the saints.

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