| Rebecca Theresa Reed - 1835 - 142 pages
...I ought to go back to the world, and make me offers of worldly pleasures, and promise me happiness. In order to prevent this, I must watch and pray all...thoughts from my mind, and throw holy water at the evil * See note on page 19. t I have since learned it was my sister and another lady. They say he told them... | |
| Rosamond Culbertson, Samuel B. Smith - Cuba - 1836 - 336 pages
...published at Boston, Mass., it is written, that in order to keep off the assaults of the Devil : " I must watch and pray all the time, and banish entirely...they dare. Perceiving the unpleasant effect this had on my feelings, he (the bishop of Boston,) portrayed, in lively colors, the happiness which would flow... | |
| Rebecca Theresa Reed - 1851 - 116 pages
...I ought to go back to the world, and make me offers of worldly pleasures, and promise me happiness. In order to prevent this, I must watch and pray all...spirits, and challenge them to come if they dare. * See note on page 19. t I have since learned it was my sister and another lady. They say he told them... | |
| James R. Lewis - Religion - 2003 - 292 pages
...I ought to go back to the world; and make me offers of worldly pleasures, and promise me happiness. In order to prevent this, I must watch and pray all...and banish entirely worldly thoughts from my mind" (Reed 1835, 89). These tales typically consisted of the recounting of one atrocity after another, held... | |
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