| James Freeman Clarke - Prayer - 1854 - 250 pages
...we share, Tor the gift without the giver is bare." Therefore we cannot be what every Christian ought to be, — the " salt of the earth," the " light of the world," a fixed axis around which other things shall revolve. The Christian who is inwardly near to Christ,... | |
| Reformed Church - 1854 - 660 pages
...Thy ministering servants, the dispensers and stewards of the mysteries of God, that they may truly be the salt of the earth, the light of the world and proclaim with fiery tongues the wonderful works of the Lord. Heal the divisions and distractions which... | |
| Octavius Winslow - Holy Spirit - 1856 - 324 pages
...happy and a holy walk — as you would be jealous for the honour and glory of the Lord — as you wish to be the "salt of the earth," the "light of the world" — .to be a savour of Christ in everyplace, — O seek the sealing of the Spirit. Rest not short of... | |
| Thomas Alexander (minister of Belgrave Presbyterian ch, London.) - 1857 - 168 pages
...another, are Christianity, and the Papacy. The spirit of true Christianity is that its disciples are to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. For this purpose it sends out its followers, everywhere, that life may grapple with death, and light... | |
| Australia - 1858 - 668 pages
...that fervent prayer -which has power with God. Christians must aspire to be, what indeed they ought to be — the " salt of the earth," the " light of the world," the pervading and conserving power in the community, — and this view of our obligations as colonists... | |
| Thomas Griffith - God - 1862 - 290 pages
...generations yet to come. The Israelites were made God's holy ones, not for their own advantage alone, but to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the seed whence should germinate throughout the desolate wilderness flowers and fruit. For this ultimate... | |
| Henry Venn Elliott - Sermons, English - 1865 - 348 pages
...disciples, Acts xix. 2 ? conveying the highest blessings to their fellow- men. Christians in general are to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. This day should carry us all beyond ourselves and our own conversion, beyond the Baptism of repentance... | |
| George Washington Natt - Sermons, American - 1867 - 420 pages
...that makes them shrink from being regarded as what their very profession supposes and requires them to be; the salt of the earth; the light of the world; a city set on a hill that cannot be hid. There can be no doubt or question as to what is a 11* Christian's... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Sermons, English - 1868 - 378 pages
...all its sins, he loved Jerusalem. For more than a thousand years, he had put his name there. It was to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the city set on a hill, which could not be hid. From Jerusalem was to go forth to all nations the knowledge... | |
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