 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 404 σελίδες
...repentance at the " eleventh hour" is as good as in the early stages of youth or manhood, that— " While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return ;" yea, thousands have been led, by such delusive doctrine, to proerastinate their attempts and determination... | |
 | Ellis Merton Coulter - 1999 - 460 σελίδες
...Harris came to Nashville and called on Brownlow, who was said to have exclaimed as he greeted him, "While the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return." The Governor and the ex-Governor then for a few minutes held pleasant converse, after which the K Acts... | |
 | Mary Boykin Chesnut - 2002 - 268 σελίδες
..."I am glad to see you so comfortable." He groaned. In the tone of an exhorter at a revival he said, "While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." 7 "Ah please Dick! Never mind all that now. Here is a present for you. Somebody is coming—that I... | |
 | Helen Margaret Buss, Helen M. Buss, Judith Hudson Beattie - 2003 - 548 σελίδες
...pardoned, I do not wonder at your anxiety. Heaven or Hell awaits on every breath but remember that "while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return and the Lord himself has promised to cast out none that come unto h1m," go to him therefore and cast... | |
 | Sharon M. Harris, Ellen Gruber Garvey - 2004 - 326 σελίδες
...I'm an optimist, and I've seen such progress lately that I have faith enough to believe — ." "That 'while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return'? Then there's hope for the District of Columbia, where nobody votes; where there is not one atom of... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 σελίδες
...vilest sinner may return" — Thoreau's rewriting of a line from the popular hymn by Isaac Watts ["And while the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return"]; it is tempting to read the part beginning "You may have known your neighbor yesterday for a thief.... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 2005 - 492 σελίδες
...and drew back to knock him out. The Apostle caught his arm and repeated his motto: "No, no, deacon, while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return." I le knelt and drew Bill to his knees beside him, while Jeff scowled disapproval. The preacher concentrated... | |
 | David W. Levy - 2005 - 348 σελίδες
...Gittinger's words, "Pratt was obviously happy to see Reaves, greeting him with a couplet from an old hymn: 'While the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return.' Pratt indicated that other applicants had been visiting him."11 Pratt's visitors included both those,... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 σελίδες
...deny the doctrine of unpardonable sin. As in Christianity it is taught, so in this they teach, that "While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." (1.276) In keeping with the sentiments of the hymnal, they expose the hypocrisy of those who hold to... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 σελίδες
...repudiates. Rather, Lincoln ties the new champions to traditions of Christianity that stress (as he puts it) "While the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return," borrowing here from the famous English hymnody of Isaac Watts, whose eighteenth-century nonconformist... | |
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And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return. 
