 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, " I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...adjournment ; if it is, I choose to be found doing niy duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought." A similar darkness has sometimes gathered... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...the example. Colonel Davenport objected. — " The day of judgment," he said, "is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought." IMBECILITY OF INFIDELITY. Infidels and Atheists usually lose courage and confidence in their opi nions... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 546 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, " I am against an adjournment. The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." The other instance took place at Danbury, at the Court of Common Pleas ; of which he was Chief Justice.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 554 pages
...adjournment. The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no ran-.' for an adjournment : if it is, I choose to be found...duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." The other instance took place at Danbury, at the Court of Common Pleas ; of which he was Chief Justice.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 554 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, " I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought." To his friends Colonel Davenport extended his acts of kindness, as if they had been his children. I... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1828 - 280 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, " I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." Dwight's Travels, Vol. 3. \ Webster. " candles were lighted up in their houses ; the birds having sungtheir... | |
 | John Hayward - Names, Geographical - 1829 - 530 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, 'I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for...duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." Staiidish, Me. Cumberland co. This township is bounded on the N. and NE by Sebago Lake, and SW by Saco... | |
 | John Whitecross - Anecdotes - 1831 - 300 pages
...judgment,'.' said he, " is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjourning ; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." ... | |
 | John Whitecross - Anecdotes - 1831 - 302 pages
...example. Colonel Davenport objected. — " The day pf judgment," said he, " is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjourning ; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duly. I wish therefore that candles may ho hrought,"... | |
 | John Warner Barber - History - 1836 - 598 pages
...Davenport was asked, he answered, ' I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment: if it is, I clioose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.' " The other instance... | |
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The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment : if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought. 
