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A Book of Gems

by Benjamin Franklin

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Author
Franklin, Benjamin, 1812-1878
Title
A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin
Credits
Produced by Richard Hulse, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements
Subject
Churches of Christ
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 56404
Release Date
January 20, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.A BOOK OF GEMS,
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.PREFACE.
  5. 5.THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE.
  6. 6.THE GRAND WORK BEFORE US.
  7. 7.THE WORK OF CREATION.
  8. 8.LOTTERIES.
  9. 9.NO PREACHERS ON DANCING, ETC.
  10. 10.HARDENING PHARAOH’S HEART.
  11. 11.OUR CENSUS.
  12. 12.TRUE MISSIONARIES.
  13. 13.NO DEPARTURE FROM THE JERUSALEM CHURCH.
  14. 14.BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT.
  15. 15.A HIGHER MORALITY REQUIRED.
  16. 16.POIMEEN—SHEPHERD—EVANGELIST—OVERSEER.
  17. 17.CALL NO MAN REVEREND.
  18. 18.PREACHER DID NOT SUIT.
  19. 19.THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
  20. 20.WILL YOU ALSO GO AWAY.
  21. 21.THE GROUND OF UNION.
  22. 22.IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON.
  23. 23.EATING THE LORD’S FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD.
  24. 24.CHURCH ORGANIZATION.
  25. 25.THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
  26. 26.PROGRESSING BACKWARD.
  27. 27.NO DIVISION CAN COME.
  28. 28.SOME THINGS CAN NOT BE SETTLED.
  29. 29.OUTWARD APPEARANCE.
  30. 30.LITTLE MATTERS.
  31. 31.ONE IDEA ISM.
  32. 32.MINISTERING ANGELS.
  33. 33.NO SIDE STRUCTURE.
  34. 34.LIGHT WITHIN.
  35. 35.BE FIRM IN THE RIGHT.
  36. 36.THE BIBLE WILL SAVE THE WORLD.
  37. 37.NOT RECEIVING THE REFORMATION, BUT CHRIST.
  38. 38.LIFTED ABOVE SECTS AND PARTIES.
  39. 39.MAKING THE BIBLE SUPPORT HUMAN SYSTEMS.
  40. 40.PIONEERS, SUPPORT, ETC.
  41. 41.UNIVERSALISM.
  42. 42.SUPPORT WORKERS.
  43. 43.RECKLESS TWADDLE.
  44. 44.THE KIND OF PREACHING REQUIRED.
  45. 45.WE ARE A MISSIONARY PEOPLE.
  46. 46.RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS.
  47. 47.FINE CLOTHES.
  48. 48.SUBTLETIES ABOUT IMMERSION.
  49. 49.ALL THINGS COMMON.
  50. 50.DELUDED.
  51. 51.REFORMATION A SUCCESS.
  52. 52.WHAT WE ARE FOR.
  53. 53.A SUGGESTION.
  54. 54.ANNIHILATION—FUTURE PUNISHMENT.
  55. 55.DESIGN OF MIRACLES.
  56. 56.CAIN’S WIFE.
  57. 57.WHAT IS ESSENTIAL.
  58. 58.WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT.
  59. 59.INFANT SIN—INFANT SALVATION.
  60. 60.OUR AUTHORITATIVE RELIGION.
  61. 61.REFLECTIONS FOR DANCERS.
  62. 62.SPIRIT OF INDIFFERENCE.
  63. 63.APOLOGY FOR CREEDS.
  64. 64.HEAR YE HIM.
  65. 65.EVANGELISTS AND EVANGELIZING.
  66. 66.A WORKING MINISTRY.
  67. 67.PRESENT PUNISHMENT WILL NOT SAVE.
  68. 68.THE MISSION OF INFIDELS.
  69. 69.IS IT POSSIBLE TO AROUSE THE PEOPLE?
  70. 70.A MOTHER’S GRAVE.
  71. 71.TENDENCY OF UNIVERSALISM.
  72. 72.VALUE OF LEARNING.
  73. 73.THE BIBLE INFALLIBLY SAFE.
  74. 74.EXCUSE FOR CREEDS.
  75. 75.OVER AND THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.
  76. 76.REASON, PROVIDENCE, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD, TEACH US TO OBEY GOD.
  77. 77.WHAT IS CAMPBELLISM?
  78. 78.YOUNG PREACHERS MUST BE PRACTICAL.
  79. 79.CHRISTIANITY.
  80. 80.KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE CHURCH.
  81. 81.UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS.
  82. 82.BOUNDARY LINE OF REPENTANCE.
  83. 83.RECEIVING SINNERS WITHOUT BAPTISM.
  84. 84.THE FALL OF BEECHER.
  85. 85.SPEAK PLEASANTLY.
  86. 86.VARIOUS KINDS OF SCEPTICISM.
  87. 87.CHRIST THE CENTER.
  88. 88.RICHES OF FAITH.
  89. 89.ONE BAPTISM.
  90. 90.DISTURBING ELEMENT.
  91. 91.WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.
  92. 92.WHO CRUCIFIED THE SAVIOR.
  93. 93.CHRISTIAN ZEAL.
  94. 94.JUDGMENT, THE GROUND OF REPENTANCE.
  95. 95.THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST.
  96. 96.ADHERING TO THE BIBLE.
  97. 97.EXCHANGING PULPITS.
  98. 98.KIND OF PREACHERS AND PREACHING NEEDED.
  99. 99.WHERE IS THE POWER?
  100. 100.COMMUNION.
  101. 101.WANDERING PILGRIMS.
  102. 102.DEDICATION OF CHURCH EDIFICES.
  103. 103.THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS.
  104. 104.SOUND MEN.
  105. 105.CHRISTMAS.
  106. 106.PREACHERS BELONGING TO NO CHURCH.
  107. 107.A CHOIR.
  108. 108.COURTESY IN FELLOWSHIP.
  109. 109.PRAISE GOD BY SINGING.
  110. 110.CHRIST WILL COME.
  111. 111.ONE RELIGION.
  112. 112.A. CAMPBELL’S SUCCESSORS AND CRITICS.
  113. 113.AUTHORITY OF A SINGLE CONGREGATION.
  114. 114.CLASSIFICATION OF MISSIONARY MEN.
  115. 115.INFLUENCE OF THE DANCE.
  116. 116.NO MODIFICATION OF THE DIVINE PLAN.
  117. 117.ONE WAY TO GOD.
  118. 118.POPULAR UNION MEETINGS.
  119. 119.WHERE IS THE ARMY OF THE LORD?
  120. 120.FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE LORD’S ARMY.
  121. 121.FEET WASHING.
  122. 122.SUCCESS TO GOOD MEN.
  123. 123.OUR PLEA.
  124. 124.NO CAMPBELLITES.
  125. 125.CONVERTING THE CITIES.
  126. 126.A HAPPY MEETING.
  127. 127.CHURCH DECISIONS.
  128. 128.REIGN OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
  129. 129.METHODIST CLERICAL PRETENSIONS.
  130. 130.MOODY AND SANKEY.
  131. 131.TOO LATE FOR THE CARS.
  132. 132.LORD’S DAY MEETINGS.
  133. 133.LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.
  134. 134.UNIVERSALISM UNBELIEF.
  135. 135.PERSONALITY OF THE DEVIL.
  136. 136.CLERICAL YOUNG PASTORS.
  137. 137.EVERLASTING AND ETERNAL.
  138. 138.ENDURING HARDNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS.
  139. 139.HOW A PREACHER MAY STAND FAIR.
  140. 140.DELAY IN TURNING TO THE LORD.
  141. 141.WIELDING THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
  142. 142.WE ARE NO SECT.
  143. 143.MAINTAIN A PURE FAITH AND WORSHIP.
  144. 144.THINGS NOT FORBIDDEN.
  145. 145.BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH.
  146. 146.WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.
  147. 147.NOT OF ONE CLASS.
  148. 148.HOW THE WORLD REGARDS DANCERS.
  149. 149.SAVED WITHOUT BAPTISM.
  150. 150.RECOGNITION OF, BY SECTS.
  151. 151.WEALTH OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
  152. 152.FAITH, REPENTANCE, AND BAPTISM, DO NOT PARDON.
  153. 153.PROTRACTED MEETINGS, EXCITEMENTS. ETC.
  154. 154.SCENE IN A HOTEL.
  155. 155.“FAITH COMES BY HEARING.”
  156. 156.WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
  157. 157.EVANGELISTS—PASTORS.
  158. 158.THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN PREACHING.
  159. 159.TEDIOUSNESS IN PUBLIC DEVOTIONS.
  160. 160.RESURRECTION—ADAMIC SIN.
  161. 161.PAYING PREACHERS A STIPULATED SUM.
  162. 162.SELF-LAUDATION.
  163. 163.PREACH CHRIST, NOT OURSELVES.
  164. 164.THE CHURCH OF CHRIST A PROSELYTING INSTITUTION.
  165. 165.OBSERVING THE SABBATH.
  166. 166.MARK THOSE WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS.
  167. 167.RELIGION AND POLITICS.
  168. 168.PRAYER BOOKS.
  169. 169.UPWARD TENDENCY—REFORMATION NOT A FAILURE—MISSIONARY WORK.
  170. 170.MEN CAN BELIEVE AND DO BELIEVE.
  171. 171.CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
  172. 172.BELIEVERS ONLY TO BE BAPTIZED.
  173. 173.THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY BEFORE BAPTISM.
  174. 174.PAUL AND JAMES, ON JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
  175. 175.CONTROVERSY.
  176. 176.CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE SPIRIT. [A]
  177. 177.SECTARIANISM.
  178. 178.DANCING IS A HEALTHFUL EXERCISE.
  179. 179.PRAYER.
  180. 180.WE HAVE A PERFECT GOSPEL TO PREACH.
  181. 181.BIBLE NAMES.
  182. 182.INDIVIDUALITY AFTER DEATH.
  183. 183.BELIEF IN THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLY SAFE.
  184. 184.REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY.
  185. 185.EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH.
  186. 186.THIRTY YEARS AGO.
  187. 187.JESUS REVEALED AS THE SAVIOR.
  188. 188.CAN NOT A MAN KNOW THAT HE IS A CHRISTIAN?
  189. 189.EXALTED POSITION OF JESUS.
  190. 190.PUBLIC OPINION—INFANT DAMNATION.
  191. 191.THE WARNING.
  192. 192.HOW THE CAUSE OF REFORMATION WAS ADVANCED.
  193. 193.A PHALANX OF YOUNG MEN.
  194. 194.BODIES RESURRECTED, NOT SPIRITS.
  195. 195.ANOINTING WITH OIL.
  196. 196.GIVING UP PRINCIPLES.
  197. 197.MY CHURCH.
  198. 198.THE BIBLE AND BIBLE MEN.
  199. 199.BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
  200. 200.SMALL IMPROPRIETIES AND ANNOYANCES.
  201. 201.ONE IMMERSION.
  202. 202.INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
  203. 203.THE BIBLE GROUND.
  204. 204.THE WORK OF THE DISCIPLES.
  205. 205.NOT TO KEEP COMPANY.
  206. 206.EXTENT OF ONE MAN’S INFLUENCE.
  207. 207.PULPITS.
  208. 208.WHY INFIDELS OPPOSE THE BIBLE.
  209. 209.MIRACLES.
  210. 210.“AFFIRMATIVE GOSPEL.”
  211. 211.HOUSEHOLD BAPTISMS.
  212. 212.KNOWING AND NOT DOING.
  213. 213.THE BIBLE VS. HUMAN CREEDS.
  214. 214.GLORYING IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
  215. 215.THE PARDONING POWER IS ONLY IN GOD.
  216. 216.THE ACTION OF BAPTISM.
  217. 217.SHORTER CATECHISM FOR UNIVERSALIANS.
  218. 218.POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.
  219. 219.ACTIVITY IN THE MINISTRY.
  220. 220.SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS ON THE ACTION OF BAPTISM.
  221. 221.“A MIGHTY GOOD FOUNDATION.”
  222. 222.A HARD QUESTION FOR PREACHERS.
  223. 223.MAN’S ACCOUNTABILITY.
  224. 224.THE NEW AND THE OLD.
  225. 225.“MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.”
  226. 226.POLICY IN PREACHING.
  227. 227.THE CAUSE OF CHRIST IS ABOVE PARTISAN POLITICS.
  228. 228.“COME OUT OF BABYLON.”
  229. 229.PREACH “FIRST PRINCIPLES.”
  230. 230.DEVELOPING THE TALENTS OF THE YOUNG.
  231. 231.WHAT A PREACHER MUST BE.
  232. 232.THEORY AND PRACTICE.
  233. 233.THE CONVERTING POWER.
  234. 234.IMPERFECT MEDIUM FOR A PERFECT REVELATION.
  235. 235.OVERLOOKING HUMBLE BUT GOOD MEN.
  236. 236.SUGGESTIONS TO A YOUNG SCEPTIC.
  237. 237.DIALOGUE ABOUT THE PREACHER.
  238. 238.“THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS.”
  239. 239.CONCLUSION OF THE YEAR.

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