...and receiving it in the affections, that he could immediately detect any mis-quotation, and always " ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him." He was a man of strong mind, but of weak bodily powers: he passed indeed through much bodily suffering...

...half a century, he kept the faith, maintained a consistent Christian character, and was at all times ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him. It was to Mr. Wood a source of great comfort that his beloved mother became a partaker of like " precious...

...member had a " thus saith the Lord " for its doctrines and practice, and this conviction made him ever ready to give " a reason for the hope that was in him." In the April of 1856, our dear friend removed from Magdalen to an estate of his own at Fishtoft, near...

...ready for his call. In the workshop and in the world he was always firm to his principles, and ever ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him. In the class-meeting his experience was always ripe and rich, more like the experience of an aged Christian....

...subtleties of a scholastic theology, he was deeply versed in experimental piety, and, therefore, was ever ready to "give a reason for the hope that was in him with meekness and fear." At an equal remove from an exclusive and censorious spirit, and from a vague...

...again to encounter the united opposition of the partialists of every denomination. Ho was repeafedly attacked in public, and that in no very mild or Christian-like...thy wonderful works, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward, for they are thoughts of peace and not of evil.'' The General Convention of the Universalist...

...make an effort to communicate such truths as he believed calculated to awaken and convince. Always <D \ne c m o0W >h % , A& fa ,$@ e+ he was not troubled with pseudodiffidence in the presence of such as he was well assured would not...

...no more faith; but with the freedom of a believing and enlightened spirit, he aimed at being always ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him. It would seem then that every attempt to add 1 St. Luke xxii. 32. ' Tennyson's Poems, " The Two Voices,"...

...family, or the sanctuary, but which was manifest in his daily walk. On all fitting occasions he was ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him, and to commend to others, in public and in private, the salvation which was his own solace for life...

...authority of our Lord, Churches were to "judge those that were within;" and that every Christian was to be "ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him." With regard to Pharisaism, the best view of a professing Christian is not that he thinks himself righteous,...