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"A Book of Gems, or, Choice Selections from the Writings of Benjamin Franklin" by J. A. Headington and Joseph Franklin is a collection of inspirational writings and selections attributed to Benjamin Franklin, arranged for readers in the late 19th century. The work showcases Franklin's thoughts on a range of moral, philosophical, and religious topics, which were likely reflective of the period's values and concerns. The overall theme focuses on the elevation of human character and the promotion of virtuous living. The opening of the collection provides a preface emphasizing the enduring popularity and demand for Franklin's writings among the Christian community. It expresses gratitude for the public's interest in such a compilation, portraying it as a valuable treasure for Christian households. The preface also outlines the book's aim to serve as a monument to a great thinker and as a source of inspirational truths, suggesting a blueprint for moral living through the cherished wisdom of Franklin. As the reader delves into the selections, they engage with thought-provoking reflections on life, faith, and the human experience, setting the stage for a meaningful exploration of Franklin's insights. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

• The Project Gutenberg eBook ofA Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin
• ABOOK OF GEMS,
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• PREFACE.
• THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE.
• THE GRAND WORK BEFORE US.
• THE WORK OF CREATION.
• LOTTERIES.
• NO PREACHERS ON DANCING, ETC.
• HARDENING PHARAOH’S HEART.
• OUR CENSUS.
• TRUE MISSIONARIES.
• NO DEPARTURE FROM THE JERUSALEM CHURCH.
• BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT.
• A HIGHER MORALITY REQUIRED.
• POIMEEN—SHEPHERD—EVANGELIST—OVERSEER.
• CALL NO MAN REVEREND.
• PREACHER DID NOT SUIT.
• THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
• WILL YOU ALSO GO AWAY.
• THE GROUND OF UNION.
• IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON.
• EATING THE LORD’S FLESHAND DRINKING HIS BLOOD.
• CHURCH ORGANIZATION.
• THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
• PROGRESSING BACKWARD.
• NO DIVISION CAN COME.
• SOME THINGS CAN NOTBE SETTLED.
• OUTWARD APPEARANCE.
• LITTLE MATTERS.
• ONE IDEA ISM.
• MINISTERING ANGELS.
• NO SIDE STRUCTURE.
• LIGHT WITHIN.
• BE FIRM IN THE RIGHT.
• THE BIBLE WILL SAVE THE WORLD.
• NOT RECEIVING THE REFORMATION, BUT CHRIST.
• LIFTED ABOVE SECTS AND PARTIES.
• MAKING THE BIBLE SUPPORT HUMAN SYSTEMS.
• PIONEERS, SUPPORT, ETC.
• UNIVERSALISM.
• SUPPORT WORKERS.
• RECKLESS TWADDLE.
• THE KIND OF PREACHING REQUIRED.
• WE ARE A MISSIONARY PEOPLE.
• RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS.
• FINE CLOTHES.
• SUBTLETIES ABOUT IMMERSION.
• ALL THINGS COMMON.
• DELUDED.
• REFORMATION A SUCCESS.
• WHAT WE ARE FOR.
• A SUGGESTION.
• ANNIHILATION—FUTURE PUNISHMENT.
• DESIGN OF MIRACLES.
• CAIN’S WIFE.
• WHAT IS ESSENTIAL.
• WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT.
• INFANT SIN—INFANT SALVATION.
• OUR AUTHORITATIVE RELIGION.
• REFLECTIONS FOR DANCERS.
• SPIRIT OF INDIFFERENCE.
• APOLOGY FOR CREEDS.
• HEAR YE HIM.
• EVANGELISTS AND EVANGELIZING.
• A WORKING MINISTRY.
• PRESENT PUNISHMENT WILL NOT SAVE.
• THE MISSION OF INFIDELS.
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO AROUSE THE PEOPLE?
• A MOTHER’S GRAVE.
• TENDENCY OF UNIVERSALISM.
• VALUE OF LEARNING.
• THE BIBLE INFALLIBLY SAFE.
• EXCUSE FOR CREEDS.
• OVER AND THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.
• REASON, PROVIDENCE, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD, TEACH US TO OBEY GOD.
• WHAT IS CAMPBELLISM?
• YOUNG PREACHERS MUST BE PRACTICAL.
• CHRISTIANITY.
• KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE CHURCH.
• UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS.
• BOUNDARY LINE OF REPENTANCE.
• RECEIVING SINNERS WITHOUT BAPTISM.
• THE FALL OF BEECHER.
• SPEAK PLEASANTLY.
• VARIOUS KINDS OF SCEPTICISM.
• CHRIST THE CENTER.
• RICHES OF FAITH.
• ONE BAPTISM.
• DISTURBING ELEMENT.
• WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.
• WHO CRUCIFIED THE SAVIOR.
• CHRISTIAN ZEAL.
• JUDGMENT, THE GROUND OF REPENTANCE.
• THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST.
• ADHERING TO THE BIBLE.
• EXCHANGING PULPITS.
• KIND OF PREACHERS AND PREACHING NEEDED.
• WHERE IS THE POWER?
• COMMUNION.
• WANDERING PILGRIMS.
• DEDICATION OF CHURCH EDIFICES.
• THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS.
• SOUND MEN.
• CHRISTMAS.
• PREACHERS BELONGING TO NO CHURCH.
• A CHOIR.
• COURTESY IN FELLOWSHIP.
• PRAISE GOD BY SINGING.
• CHRIST WILL COME.
• ONE RELIGION.
• A. CAMPBELL’S SUCCESSORS AND CRITICS.
• AUTHORITY OF A SINGLE CONGREGATION.
• CLASSIFICATION OF MISSIONARY MEN.
• INFLUENCE OF THE DANCE.
• NO MODIFICATION OF THE DIVINE PLAN.
• ONE WAY TO GOD.
• POPULAR UNION MEETINGS.
• WHERE IS THE ARMY OF THE LORD?
• FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE LORD’S ARMY.
• FEET WASHING.
• SUCCESS TO GOOD MEN.
• OUR PLEA.
• NO CAMPBELLITES.
• CONVERTING THE CITIES.
• A HAPPY MEETING.
• CHURCH DECISIONS.
• REIGN OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
• METHODIST CLERICAL PRETENSIONS.
• MOODY AND SANKEY.
• TOO LATE FOR THE CARS.
• LORD’S DAY MEETINGS.
• LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.
• UNIVERSALISM UNBELIEF.
• PERSONALITY OF THE DEVIL.
• CLERICAL YOUNG PASTORS.
• EVERLASTING AND ETERNAL.
• ENDURING HARDNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS.
• HOW A PREACHER MAY STAND FAIR.
• DELAY IN TURNING TO THE LORD.
• WIELDING THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
• WE ARE NO SECT.
• MAINTAIN A PURE FAITH AND WORSHIP.
• THINGS NOT FORBIDDEN.
• BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH.
• WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.
• NOT OF ONE CLASS.
• HOW THE WORLD REGARDS DANCERS.
• SAVED WITHOUT BAPTISM.
• RECOGNITION OF, BY SECTS.
• WEALTH OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
• FAITH, REPENTANCE, AND BAPTISM, DO NOT PARDON.
• PROTRACTED MEETINGS, EXCITEMENTS. ETC.
• SCENE IN A HOTEL.
• “FAITH COMES BY HEARING.”
• WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
• EVANGELISTS—PASTORS.
• THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN PREACHING.
• TEDIOUSNESS IN PUBLIC DEVOTIONS.
• RESURRECTION—ADAMIC SIN.
• PAYING PREACHERS A STIPULATED SUM.
• SELF-LAUDATION.
• PREACH CHRIST, NOT OURSELVES.
• THE CHURCH OF CHRIST A PROSELYTING INSTITUTION.
• OBSERVING THE SABBATH.
• MARK THOSE WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS.
• RELIGION AND POLITICS.
• PRAYER BOOKS.
• UPWARD TENDENCY—REFORMATION NOT AFAILURE—MISSIONARY WORK.
• MEN CAN BELIEVE AND DO BELIEVE.
• CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
• BELIEVERS ONLY TO BE BAPTIZED.
• THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARYBEFORE BAPTISM.
• PAUL AND JAMES,ON JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
• CONTROVERSY.
• CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE SPIRIT.[A]
• SECTARIANISM.
• DANCING IS A HEALTHFUL EXERCISE.
• PRAYER.
• WE HAVE A PERFECT GOSPELTO PREACH.
• BIBLE NAMES.
• INDIVIDUALITY AFTER DEATH.
• BELIEF IN THE BIBLE ISINFALLIBLY SAFE.
• REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY.
• EARNESTLY CONTENDINGFOR THE FAITH.
• THIRTY YEARS AGO.
• JESUS REVEALED ASTHE SAVIOR.
• CAN NOT A MAN KNOW THATHE IS A CHRISTIAN?
• EXALTED POSITION OF JESUS.
• PUBLIC OPINION—INFANT DAMNATION.
• THE WARNING.
• HOW THE CAUSE OF REFORMATIONWAS ADVANCED.
• A PHALANX OF YOUNG MEN.
• BODIES RESURRECTED,NOT SPIRITS.
• ANOINTING WITH OIL.
• GIVING UP PRINCIPLES.
• MY CHURCH.
• THE BIBLE AND BIBLE MEN.
• BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• SMALL IMPROPRIETIESAND ANNOYANCES.
• ONE IMMERSION.
• INNOVATIONS IN THECHURCH OF CHRIST.
• THE BIBLE GROUND.
• THE WORK OF THE DISCIPLES.
• NOT TO KEEP COMPANY.
• EXTENT OF ONE MAN’S INFLUENCE.
• PULPITS.
• WHY INFIDELS OPPOSE THE BIBLE.
• MIRACLES.
• “AFFIRMATIVE GOSPEL.”
• HOUSEHOLD BAPTISMS.
• KNOWING AND NOT DOING.
• THE BIBLE VS. HUMAN CREEDS.
• GLORYING IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
• THE PARDONING POWER IS ONLY IN GOD.
• THE ACTION OF BAPTISM.
• SHORTER CATECHISMFOR UNIVERSALIANS.
• POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.
• ACTIVITY IN THE MINISTRY.
• SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS ON THE ACTION OF BAPTISM.
• “A MIGHTY GOOD FOUNDATION.”
• A HARD QUESTION FOR PREACHERS.
• MAN’S ACCOUNTABILITY.
• THE NEW AND THE OLD.
• “MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.”
• POLICY IN PREACHING.
• THE CAUSE OF CHRIST IS ABOVEPARTISAN POLITICS.
• “COME OUT OF BABYLON.”
• PREACH “FIRST PRINCIPLES.”
• DEVELOPING THE TALENTSOF THE YOUNG.
• WHAT A PREACHER MUST BE.
• THEORY AND PRACTICE.
• THE CONVERTING POWER.
• IMPERFECT MEDIUM FORA PERFECT REVELATION.
• OVERLOOKING HUMBLEBUT GOOD MEN.
• SUGGESTIONS TO A YOUNG SCEPTIC.
• DIALOGUE ABOUT THE PREACHER.
• “THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS.”
• CONCLUSION OF THE YEAR.
• Chapter 241
• Chapter 242
• Chapter 243
• Chapter 244
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
• Chapter 246

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