... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of t...hose candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Ch...rist God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saint...s for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the eave-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast,... Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cann...ot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.... He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer mis...sionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »