 As I believe most firmly that God reigns, I cannot believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the cause of God or of humanity. And before I began my work at Harper's Ferry, I felt assured that in the worst event it...  Once a Week - Page 108edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...cannot believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the canse of God or of humanity. And before I began my work at...expressed that belief ; and I can now see no possible canse to alter my mind. I am not as yet, in the main, at all disappointed. I have been a good deal... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 688 pages
...cannot believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the canse of God or of humanity. And before I began my work at...certainly pay. I often expressed that belief; and lean now see no possible canse to alter my mind. I am not as yet, in the main, at all disappointed.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 604 pages
...believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the cause of God or humanity. And before I began my work at Harper's Ferry,...in the worst event it would certainly pay. . . . I have been a good deal disappointed as it regards myself in not keeping up to my own plans ; but I now... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 566 pages
...believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the cause of God or humanity. And before I began my work at Harper's Ferry,...in the worst event it would certainly pay. . . . I have been a good deal disappointed as it regards myself in not keeping up to my own plans ; but I now... | |
 | Richard J. Hinton - 1894 - 754 pages
...done, suffered, or may yet suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or humanity. And before I begun my work at Harper's Ferry, I felt assured that in the worst event it would certain ly /#>>." Henry Ward Beecher preached in Plymouth Church on Sunday morning, October 3oth, 1859,... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley - 1900 - 442 pages
...hour. He had anticipated all the cost, whatever occurred. In the letter above referred to he says : "And before I began my work at Harper's Ferry, I felt...that in the worst event it would certainly pay.:' Thus was he enabled to go back to his dungeon in the spirit of a conqueror ; he had looked at the gallows... | |
 | John James Ingalls - 1902 - 552 pages
...believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer will be lost to the cause of God or humanity, and before I began my work at Harper's Ferry...assured that in the worst event it would certainly pay." "Tell your father that I am quite cheerful; that I do not feel myself in the least degraded by my imprisonment,... | |
 | 1860 - 326 pages
...cannot believe that any thing I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or of humanity. And before I began my work at...belief ; and I can now see no possible cause to alter my mind. I am not as yet in the main at all disappointed. I have been a good deal disappointed as it... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1909 - 428 pages
...pp. 579-580. may yet suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or of humanity. And before I began niy work at Harper's Ferry, I felt assured that in the...belief ; and I can now see no possible cause to alter my mind. I am not as yet, in the main, at all disappointed. I have been a good deal disappointed as... | |
 | Evan Carton - 2006 - 401 pages
...they fear." In a letter to a friend from prison, John Brown wrote: "Before I began my work at Harpers Ferry, I felt assured that in the worst event it would...certainly pay. I often expressed that belief; and I can see no possible cause to alter my mind." Brown's work began to pay immediately by forcing to the surface... | |
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