Address on the Power and Value of the Sunday School System: In Evangelizing Heathen and Re-constructing Christian Communitys, by an Improvement of the Religion and Morals, the Education and Literature, and the Social, Civil and Political Institutions of Every People : and on the Southern Enterprise of the American Sunday School Union ; Delivered in the Lutheran Church, City of Charleston, on Monday Evening, March 17, 1834

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Página 31 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 31 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 26 - And she said; Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
Página 31 - ... river ; the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations ; and the lamp which lights the way through time into eternity.
Página 20 - ... that science is valuable only for its utility ; that the New Testament is the only genuine moral constitution of society, and its principles the only safe and wise foundation of all civil and political establishments.
Página 34 - ... secrets of the great deep are invisible to his eyes, mysterious to his comprehension. What a striking analogy exists between him on the boundless Pacific and the ruler of a nation, looking abroad from the heights of ambition and power over the surface of society. Whilst he is employed in analyzing the interior details and harmonizing the external action of the machinery of government, I see that he does not even suspect the existence of a system of influences, which descending to the very depths...
Página 34 - I know that millions of unseen agents are silently but unceasingly and irresistibly at work beneath the surface. I know that in depths where the howl of the storm is never heard, where the conflict of waves is never felt, they are forever building upward, and that in due season, according to the appointments of Providence, their eternal edifice will appear above the subject waves, glorious in majesty, beauty and power. DR. WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr. William Oxley Thompson was the recipient...
Página 16 - Behold the wide spread ignorance and degrading superstition; the power of prejudice and the authority of custom ; the unchristian character of our systems of education ; and the dread of the frowns and ridicule of the world : and we discover at once a host of more formidable enemys to the progress of true religion, in Christian than in Heathen lands.
Página 4 - That we have beheld with deep interest the efforts of the American Sunday School Union, for the establishment of Sunday Schools in the Valley of the Mississippi...
Página 9 - From Greenland's icy mountains From India's coral strand : From Afric's sunny fountains, That roll on golden sand.

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