 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1895 - 436 pages
...1791, Mr. Wesley wrote from his deathbed to Mr. Wilberf orce the celebrated letter in which he said : " Unless the Divine power has raised you up to be as...ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it." That was on February 24, 1791. Look on sixteen years— sixteen years to a day — it is the day when the... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - University extension - 1897 - 476 pages
...will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you, who can be against you ? Oh ! be not weary of well-doing. Go on in the name...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. Your affectionate servant, JOHN WESLEY." — Letter to \Vilberforce, February 24, 1791. F. THE HUMANITARIAN... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Clergy - 1903 - 336 pages
...for you, who can be against you ? Are all of them together stronger than God ? O " be not weary in well-doing." Go on, in the name of God, and in the...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. b " II", Sky, And Earth and Sen with all their Train.' His Truth for e.ver ftands pmn i-iiqnis fccore;... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Clergy - 1906 - 336 pages
...champion God-speed in his crusade against human slavery. "Go on," wrote Wesley, "in the name of God and the power of his might, till even American slavery,...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it." On his return to London next day, Friday, February 25, he repaired to his room in City Road, and never... | |
 | Jesse Page - Bishops - 1908 - 508 pages
...addressed to Wilberforce, urging him to persevere in his " glorious enterprise." " Go on," he writes, " in the name of God and in the power of His might till...that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it." It must not be forgotten, however, that the Society of Friends, lifting through the darkest hours of... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you, who can be against you ? Oh, be not weary of well-doing. Go on in the name...saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. That He Who has guided you from your youth up may continue to strengthen you in this and in all good things... | |
 | Harry Frederick Ward - Christian sociology - 1910 - 336 pages
...contemporary. Witness the last letter of his life, the letter to William Wilberforce, in which he tells him to "go on, in the name of God and in the power of his...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it." "The noblest result of the religious revival" — so writes John Richard Green — "was the steady... | |
 | Harry Frederick Ward - Christian sociology - 1910 - 332 pages
...contemporary. Witness the last letter of his life, the letter to William Wilberforce, in which he tells him to "go on, in the name of God and in the power of his...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it." "The noblest result of the religious revival" — so writes John Richard Green — "was the steady... | |
 | James Mudge - 1910 - 524 pages
...wrote, a few days before he died, was to William Wilberforce, bidding him be not weary in well doing: "Go on in the name of God and in the power of his...that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it." Coke and Asbury, coming to this country from such surroundings, were equally unrelenting and outspoken... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...on in the name of God, and in the power of his might, till even American slavery, "The Vilest Thing That Ever Saw The Sun," shall vanish away before it. That He who has guided you from your youth up may continue to strengthen you in this and all things, is the... | |
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Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you, who can be against you ? Are all of them together stronger than God ? Oh ! be not weary of well-doing. 
