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2921 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WITHSTAND.1 (Noah Webster)
WITHSTAND, v.t. [with and stand. See Stand .] To oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand the attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
2922 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WORLDLING.2 (Noah Webster)
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument.
2923 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WORTH.11 (Noah Webster)
If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.
2924 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. evangelism.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… deep arguments. It depends upon the simplicity of the message and its adaptation to the souls that are hungering for the bread of life” (COL 231). Thus, “studied …
2925 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 46.3 (D. A. Delafield)
His face angry, her husband rose to defend her. With his Bible in his hand, he exclaimed, “The Bible is all we want. I shall not give up the Bible for visions.” Mrs. White had often heard the argument used against her.
2926 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 92.2 (D. A. Delafield)
… clever arguments and manner of gesturing. Others tried to defend Christianity, but soon gave up when he defeated their every attempt.
2927 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 95.1 (D. A. Delafield)
… complicated arguments with the scoffing man. To have done so would have given him a chance to twist the discussion to his own advantage. Instead she exposed …
2928 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 149.3 (D. A. Delafield)
… the argument around Sekuba continued, the Bantus became offended. They feared the Bushmen, yet looked down on them as inferior. They took Sekuba’s wish to …
2929 Campfire Junior Stories from the days of S.D.A. Pioneers, p. 21.2 (Arthur Lacey White)
… their arguments and explanations, she said quietly, “I think you are right. Now I want to ask you one question. Why do you keep Sunday for the Sabbath?”
2930 His Messenger, p. 24.3 (Ruth Wheeler)
… any argument, for the presence of the holy angels was too greatly felt as the people earnestly sought for the truth.
2931 Stories of My Grandmother, p. 87.3 (Ella May White Robinson)
Alarmed, Loughborough went at once with Mr. Orton and several others to a meeting at the mission. He was fully armed with texts and arguments to show up the errors of these Seventh-day preachers.
2932 There Shines A Light, p. 36.3 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… strong argument. Her constant appeal to the Bible established her connection with the source of inspiration. But besides these evidences, for the extraordinary …
2933 A Gift of Light, p. 19.4 (Roger W. Coon)
… Age. Arguments given in favor of the proposition of abolition (which many Catholics and Protestants hold) are interesting, but subject to refutation. According …
2934 A Gift of Light, p. 20.2 (Roger W. Coon)
… this argument, the British scholar J. P. Baker declares:John R. W. Stott, Baptism and Fullness (Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity Press, 1976), pp. 100-102.
2935 A Gift of Light, p. 26.3 (Roger W. Coon)
… of arguments adduced from Scripture. Seven months later Ellen had a vision (on April 3, 1847) in which God showed her the binding claims of His law today. (It is …
2936 A Prophet Among You, p. 41.2 (T. Housel Jemison)
… little argument to support them. Paul might well have added to his description of himself that he was “a preacher of preachers,” and the “teacher of teachers …
2937 A Prophet Among You, p. 176.3 (T. Housel Jemison)
… “main argument concerns the establishment of his fundamental thesis—Christ’s premillennial advent and subsequent glorious reign on earth.”
2938 A Prophet Among You, p. 179.4 (T. Housel Jemison)
… convincing argument upon the proofs of Christianity,” than in one of Wolff’s lectures to which he had listened.
2939 A Prophet Among You, p. 189.2 (T. Housel Jemison)
… the arguments, singly or combined, could do nothing to still the voice of conviction and conscience. His distress became so marked that he then and there promised …
2940 A Prophet Among You, p. 303.3 (T. Housel Jemison)
“As the cry of Mormonism is often raised, especially in the west, at the introduction of the Bible argument of the perpetuity of spiritual gifts, I have felt anxious that my brethren should know what my experience has been, and where it has been.