| Anna M. Stoddart - Abolitionists - 1899 - 346 pages
...goes. While eating his breakfast he gave us his parting counsel — ' Well, friends, let us continue to prove all things, and hold fast that which is good, and remember it is a small thing to be judged of man's judgment.' " Elihu Burritt came from the United... | |
| Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Church of the Brethren - 1899 - 700 pages
...to him, for it is only when we are in such a state that the truly divine Spirit who will enable us to prove all things and hold fast that which is good and useful, will come forth and lead us as the lambs of Christ into all truth. Blessed is the man who does... | |
| James Esdaile - Hypnotism - 1902 - 178 pages
...of the creature. The object of man's life here clearly is — to separate the good from the evil ; "to prove all things, and hold fast that which is good ;" and this can be done in Mesmerism, as in anything else: the abuse, and not the use of any great power,... | |
| Commonwealth Club of California - California - 1910 - 542 pages
...inspired not by emotion but by reason. It proceeds not with enthusiasm but with resolution. We seek to prove all things and hold fast that which is good. And thereby, as I believe, our work will be all the more useful and all the more enduring. At the conclusion... | |
| John Harvey MacVicar - Ontario - 1904 - 380 pages
...that which it begets and fosters. This Book invites and provokes discussion, and fearlessly tells men to " prove all things, and hold fast that which is good." And hence the more fully we imbibe its spirit, the more truly progressive do we become and the less inclined... | |
| 1904 - 1048 pages
...the dose of a 3Oth potency looks mighty small to the natural eye, but following the maxim of St. Paul to "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good," and encouraged by the testimony of such men as Hahnemann himself, followed by Boenninghauson, Hering, Dunham,... | |
| George Beckwith - Almanacs - 1857 - 774 pages
...to set me right, yet 1 see nothing in his argument that refutes any of my positions. It become* as to "prove all things, and hold fast that which is good," and my columns will be always open as a channel of investigation to those wh« are seeking to effect those... | |
| Allan Menzies - Philosophy - 1906 - 956 pages
...instance it is the best we can get, and use it we must as best we can. The apostle Paul directs us to " prove all things and hold fast that which is good," and the Confession of Faith leaves us free to give due consideration to the " Word in our hearts," which,... | |
| Gustav Spiller - Education - 1909 - 392 pages
...would of itself lead to mutual respect and co-operation. Let Christian and non-Christian both seek to prove all things and hold fast that which is good, and the community will morally prosper. With regard to the differences which we are discussing, we must... | |
| 1911 - 862 pages
...learned and skilful that we can afford to dispose with or drive from the field. It is an apostolic maxim, to prove all things, and hold fast that which is good ; and that can be done only where there is a liberty. A profession hedged in by penal restrictions can never... | |
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