Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie, D.D.

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W. Isbister & Company, 1874
 

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Page 245 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 248 - Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Page 135 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 139 - Saxon tongue — the mother tongue of my hearers. I studied the style of the addresses which the ancient and inspired prophets delivered to the people of Israel, and saw how, differing from dry disquisitions or a naked statement of truths, they abounded in metaphors, figures, and illustrations. I turned to the Gospels, and found that He who knew what was in man, what could best illuminate a subject, win the attention, and move the heart, used, parables or illustrations, stories, comparisons, drawn...
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Page 400 - The Year of Praise ; being Hymns with Tunes, for the Sundays and Holidays of the Year. Large type, with music, 3s. 6d. ; without music, is. Small type, with music, is. 6d; without music, 6d. Tonic Sol-fa Edition, crown 8vo, is.
Page 139 - M clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic, throwing more pathos into appeals, and copying God in His works by adding the ornamental to the useful. The longer I have lived and composed, I have acted more and more according to the saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds in his " Lectures on Painting," that God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labour.
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Page 400 - Edition, crown 8vo, is. 6d. How to Study the New Testament. Part I. The Gospels and the Acts.— II. The Epistles (first section). — III. The Epistles (second section) and the Revelation. Small 8vo, 3s. 6d. each.
Page 139 - Many have supposed that I owe any power I have of modulating my voice, and giving effect thereby to what I am delivering, to a musical ear. On the contrary, I am, as they say in Scotland,

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