Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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Page 14 - HOW blest the righteous when he dies ' When sinks a weary soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 87 - What amounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficiencies of those who have not obtained their regular allowance on the circuits ? 15.
Page 155 - Take my poor heart and let it be For ever closed to all but thee: Seal thou my breast, and let me wear That pledge of love for ever there.
Page 65 - IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT' Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Page 99 - Were all the preachers' characters examined?" was strictly attended to by calling over their names before the Conference.
Page 154 - ... the Sun of Righteousness arose upon him with healing in his wings.
Page 15 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.
Page 153 - He had fought a good fight, he had finished his course, he had kept the faith...
Page 29 - May we die the death of the righteous, and may our last end be like his !
Page 155 - He is too wise to err, and too good to be unkind.

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