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Page 2 - ADVICE TO A YOUNG CHRISTIAN, on the Importance of aiming at an elevated standard of piety. By a Village Pastor. With an Introductory Essay by the Rev. Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, NJ 18mo.
Page 15 - ... East Indies, and many natives of Europe, of course. It was therefore proposed, that at the next meeting, the three young gentlemen first referred to, together with an eminently pious young nobleman of Holland, should each give a particular narrative of the rise and progress of the work of grace in his soul.
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| Title | Advice to a Young Christian: On the Importance of Aiming at an Elevated Standard of Piety |
| Author | Jared Bell Waterbury |
| Contributor | American Tract Society |
| Publisher | J.S. Taylor, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 196 pages |
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