...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1668, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity : " GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS." By an instinct of our nature, we all love to learn the places of our birth, and the chief circumstances...

...that has throughout our history made the words of William Stoughton, spoken in 1688, still ring true: "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness." And now he turned his back upon the certainty of an honorable old age spent in such comfort as the...

...their true sincerity of purpose, sincerely as we believe, in the language of William Stoughton, that " God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choice grain into the wilderness," looking back, with silent admiration at their desperate conflicts with temporal and spiritual temptations,...

...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1688, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity ; * GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS V It seems almost superfluous to add any corroboration of these opinions ; yet the case may be strengthened...

...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1688, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity ; ' GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS1." It seems almost superfluous to add any corroboration of these opinions ; yet the case...

...it was at last violated. The Pilgrims belonged to that class of men of whom it has been said, that " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness ; " and their bright example will give new courage to the oppressed everywhere, and inspire in them...

...to religious freedom. They were also the best blood of all England. One of the fathers truly said, " God sifted a whole nation, that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." Their common customs show how deeply these people were dyed with the Christian religion. To mention...

...were the best of their stock, and as William S to ugh to n said in his election sermon of 1668 : * God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness.* " In every way equal in authorship to the volume above noticed is the remarkable work, also by Col....

...ministers were men of no common powers, nor learning. Says Stonghton, in his Election Sermon, 1668 : "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain, into this wilderness. They were men of great renown, in the nation from which the Laudian persecution exiled...

...— but they were a select class of Anglo-Saxons. As Houghton, a New England divine, said, in 1688, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness." The leading families of the Virginia colonists are well known to have been of a high English type, but...