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Abbott Eliot Kittredge , best known as A. E. Kittredge, was an American leader of the Presbyterian Church.

Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Kittredge graduated from Williams College in 1854; taught in Wilton, Connecticut, for a year, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1859. He was ordained Sept. 14, 1859, as pastor of the Winthrop church, Charlestown, where he remained until 1863; he then led the Howard St. Presbyterian church in San Francisco, California, 1864 and was pastor of the Eleventh Presbyterian church of New York City from 1865 to 1870, and then of the Third Presbyterian church of Chicago, Illinois, from 1870 to 1886. His work in presiding over the Chicago congregation attracted nationwide attention. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1878.In 1896 he returned to New York city to lead the Madison Avenue Reformed church, until 1896. He was relieved of work for a time on account of ill health, and later, after extended travel, he again assumed the responsibility of the services.He was twice married, his first wife having died in the late 1870s, and was survived by his second wife and three daughters, including social worker Mabel Hyde Kittredge. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Luglio 1834 – 17. Dicembre 1912
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“A divine life is hidden in every seed we sow for Jesus. It matters not how small the seed may be, nor in what secluded part of the vineyard it may be sown — a prayer, a word, a look, a pressure of the hand — God's almighty energy is enfolded in every seed which we sow in the Master's name and for His glory.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 128.

“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 69.

“The "wise men " were journeying to the manger — we to the throne. They to see a babe — we to look upon the King in His beauty. They to kneel and worship — we to sit with Him on His throne. That trembling star shone for them through the darkness of the night, lighting their way — Jesus is always with us, our star of hope; and the pathway is never dark where He leads; for He giveth "songs in the night."”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 54.

“I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the CROSS, the CROSS — God's hammer, God's fire.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 144.

“Beloved, I congratulate you, that you are at the feast of redeeming love, that you know the riches of grace in Christ Jesus; but this is only the "early meal" (introductory feast); the " grand supper "is awaiting you, at the close of the day, in the palace of the King, where the fellowship will be perfect and eternal, where the table will be beyond all the mists and fogs of sin, where death never enters to disturb the festivities, and where we shall see the Lamb face to face. O! if the feast with Jesus here is so precious, what, what must heaven be!”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 372.

“This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 371.

“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.

“Parents, I urge you to make the Bible the sweetest, the dearest book to your children; not by compelling them to read so many chapters each day, which will have the effect of making them hate the Bible, but by reading its pages with them, and by your tender parental love, so showing them the beauty of its wondrous incidents, from the story of Adam and Eve to the story of Bethlehem and Calvary, that no book in the home will be so dear to your children as the Bible; and thus you will be strengthening their minds with the sublimest truths, storing their hearts with the purest love, and sinking deep in their souls solid principles of righteousness, whose divine stones no waves of temptation can ever move.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 39.

“Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?"”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.

“Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 87.

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.

“The hoary centuries are full of Him; the echoes of His sweet voice are heard to-day; His love has perfumed the past eighteen hundred years, and He lives to-day, as the Head of His church; He lives to-day, the object of the warmest adoration, the most passionate love, for whom millions would die this very hour. Empires have fallen, thrones have crumbled; but Jesus lives, His empire extending every day, His throne gaining new trophies of His grace.”

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Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

“Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there "which passeth knowledge," and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.

“And this is the mission of the church — not civilization, but salvation — not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality, and liberty, but FIRST, the " kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 149.

“A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 155.

“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 22.

“The Lord's Supper! the marriage supper of the Lamb! There are vacant seats around the table here. Will there be dear ones missed at the table there?”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 374.

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever."”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.

“O! to abide ever in Christ— to know His fellowship, to keep our hearts resting upon His infinite love, and there to grow from spiritual infancy to the full stature in holiness and love and joy and peace. May this be your experience every day and hour, strong in Him, fruitful in Him, happy in Him, until with the crumbling of the tabernacle of clay, the fellowship is perfect in the house not made with hands, where we shall see Him as He is.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 609.

“This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.

“Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.

“I love to think of Him in the world of light to-day, my brother; mine though angels bow before Him, and archangels veil their faces; mine though I am very far from heaven's holiness and heaven's joy; yet He is my brother, and every beating of His heart is a brother's love for me, and though high and lifted up, H'sarm, a brother's, is around me, and will keep me and uphold me, until He gives me a brother's welcome to His and my home in the better land.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.

“Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 35.

“"I am trying to trust," said one to me this past week, who had heard the earth falling on the casket which held the cold form of the dearest human friend, " I am trying to trust," and so I have seen a bird with a broken wing trying to fly. When the heart is broken, all our trying will only increase our pain and unrest. But if, instead of trying to trust, we will press closer to the Comforter, and lean our weary heads upon His sufficient grace, the trust will come without our trying, and the promised "perfect peace" will calm every troubled wave of sorrow.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.

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