There is sunshine in my soul today, More glorious and bright Than glows in any earthly sky, For Jesus is my Light. Refrain O there’s sunshine, blessèd sunshine, When the peaceful, happy moments roll; When Jesus shows His smiling face, There is sunshine in the soul. There is music in my soul today, A carol [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Philadelphia’
Hannah Whitall Smith – birth, Feb. 7, 1832
Posted in born today, lady writer, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged "Higher Christian Life", 1875 published, 2/7/1832, “new experience”, born this datw, converted to Plymouth Brethren, daughter of Quaker parents, England, Hannah Whitall Smith, married Robert Piersall Smith, NJ, PA, Philadelphia, speaking tour of the United States and Europe, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, Westwood on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The lump of clay, from the moment it comes under the transforming hand of the potter, is, during each day and each hour of the process, just what the potter wants it to be at that hour or on that day, and therefore pleases him. But it is very far from being matured into the [...]
William Pitt, Earl of Charham – birth, Nov. 15, 1708
Posted in born today, philosophy, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 11/15/1708, 1754, 1851, A Compendium of English Literature, “General Advice to Youthful Student”, Bath, born this date, Charles D. Cleveland, E.C.& J.Biddle, England, Hayes, If you are not right towards God, January 14, Kent, Philadelphia, Pitt “He never hesitated to rebuke in severest terms his own country when he saw she was in the way of wrong doing”, Pitt died May 11 1778, quotes above are from a letter, said to have placated no magnates to have refused all bribes, the wits and rakes of Cambridge, today in history, under his influence England became the most powerful country on the globe, Westminster, William Pitt, William Pitt Earl of Charham, you can never be so towards man. on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If obliged to differ…do I with all possible candor, and an unprejudiced desire to find and ascertain truth, with an entire indifference to the side on which truth is found. – William Pitt, “General Advice to Youthful Student,” in A Compendium of English Literature, ed. Charles D. Cleveland (Philadelphia: E.C.& J.Biddle, 1851), 642. [...]
William Penn – arrived in America, Oct. 27, 1682
Posted in QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 10/27/1682, 1688, 1792, a colonist, arrived in America, Benjamin Johnson, English Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania, Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, No Cross no Crown; a Discourse showing the Nature & Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, on this date, PA named after his father, Philadelphia, today, William Penn on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…He that covets can no more be a moral man than he that steals; since he does so in this mind. Nor can he be one that robs his neighbor of his credit, or that craftily undermines him of his trade, or office. – William Penn, Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (Philadelphia: [...]
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim – birth, Oct. 9, 1693
Posted in born today, education, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 10/9/1693, 1693, 1747, 1798, “claims and privileges of humanity”, born this date, borrowed clergy, celibacy of clergy, chancellor of the University of Göttingen, Church historian, clergy, conversion, died 9/9/1755, doctrine of Augustine, Ecclesiastical History, excommunication, fatal source of wars, from the pagan superstitions, Germany, his law adapted to the corrupt nature of man, hunting, Johann (John) Lorenz von Mosheim, Johann Mosheim, Lubeck, Lutheran, massacres, Mosheim John Lawrence, persuaded such multitudes to embrace his religion, Philadelphia, Piedmont, rebellions, Sanctification, Stephen Ustick, still more remote from their sacred character, terror of Mahomet’s arms, their gluttony, their lust, their luxury, this century [Cent. VII], to military studies and enterprises., today in history, Valdenses, Vaudois, Vigilantius, Waldenses, wrote An Ecclesiastical History on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…Vigilantius…denied that the tombs and the bones of the martyrs were to be honored…maintained that prayers addressed to departed saints were void of all efficacy; and treated with contempt fasting and mortifications, the celibacy of clergy… – Mosheim, John Lawrence, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (Philadelphia: Stephen Ustick, 1798), 49. …imperfect mortals…are much more [...]
Joseph John Gurney – birth, Aug. 2, 1788
Posted in born today, holy living, Jesus Christ, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1838, 1938, baptizing influence of the Holy Ghost, born 8/2/1788, by Joseph John Gurney, City of Philadelphia, Contrary to Holy Scripture, Edward, Eighteenth, either in opinion or practice, First-day Afternoon, friend, greater purification, Hopper, Joseph John Gurney, Kay & Brother, narrow way, never by any possibility contradict itself, never lead any man, New Street, North Meeting-house, Philadelphia, Quaker, Second Month, Sermons and Prayers Delivered, Spirit of truth, the path of self-denial, they are displeased at the cross, turning to the right hand or to the left, unflattering and uncompromising voice of the Spirit of God, way of peace, we must follow him in his walk of holiness on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…Beloved friends, the professing church of Christ stands in need of greater purification than it has yet attained to…there are many spots on her garments; she is defiled by the dust of the earth; and her garments are very much tattered. But when the professing church of Christ under every name, comes under the baptizing [...]
Charles Albert Tindley – birth, Jul 7, 1851
Posted in born today, poet American, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1851, 1933, 7/7/1851 Berlin, “By and By.” Tindlay died 7/26/1933., “Leave It There”, “Nothing Between”, battle array, born in slavery, born this date, Charles Albert Tindley, faults and failures, friends misunderstand, growing old, In tribulation, knowest all about me, life becomes a burden, Lily of the Valley, Maryland, Methodist church, nearing chilly Jordan, never lost a battle, old and feeble, persecution, Philadelphia, rose to pastor, savèd Paul and Silas, ship upon the sea, stand by me, storms of life, strength begins to fail, the hosts of hell, the world is tossing me, wrote on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the storms of life are raging, Stand by me (stand by me); When the storms of life are raging, Stand by me (stand by me); When the world is tossing me Like a ship upon the sea Thou Who rulest wind and water, Stand by me (stand by me). In the midst of tribulation, [...]
