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... seeking for pearls , and finding many of great beauty , at last found the most beautiful one , of surpassing brilliancy , and joyfully surrendered all they had to make this precious pearl their own . Others , without seeking ...
... seeking for pearls , and finding many of great beauty , at last found the most beautiful one , of surpassing brilliancy , and joyfully surrendered all they had to make this precious pearl their own . Others , without seeking ...
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... seeking truth and righteousness , were led by deliverance from bodily suffering , which they obtained in answer to the believing prayers of Christians , to a participation in the spiritual blessings of heavenly good . We are reminded of ...
... seeking truth and righteousness , were led by deliverance from bodily suffering , which they obtained in answer to the believing prayers of Christians , to a participation in the spiritual blessings of heavenly good . We are reminded of ...
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... seek out of him- self what he ought to seek in the depths of his own being . Hence arose the numberless forms of superstition , in which a conscience ill at ease takes refuge . The unhappy life of those men who day and night were ...
... seek out of him- self what he ought to seek in the depths of his own being . Hence arose the numberless forms of superstition , in which a conscience ill at ease takes refuge . The unhappy life of those men who day and night were ...
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... seek out the poor peasants in their hovels , and country churches were formed under their own pastors , heathenism lingered the longest among the rude peasantry ; hence , at a period when Christianity had been generally spread , heathen ...
... seek out the poor peasants in their hovels , and country churches were formed under their own pastors , heathenism lingered the longest among the rude peasantry ; hence , at a period when Christianity had been generally spread , heathen ...
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... seek . How powerfully these needs pressed upon men in that age , is tes- tified by the memorable words of the heathen philosopher , in the third century , who used every effort , in order , by the Hellenic religion as artificially ...
... seek . How powerfully these needs pressed upon men in that age , is tes- tified by the memorable words of the heathen philosopher , in the third century , who used every effort , in order , by the Hellenic religion as artificially ...
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