Jb stoney biography
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Discipline in the school of God : its nature and effect / [by] J. B. Stoney
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- Stoney, J. B
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- Hampton Wick, Eng. : Stow Hill Bible and Tract Depot,
- p. ; 17 cm.
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- Bible -- Biography
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- Plymouth Brethren
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James Butler Stoney
JAMES BUTLER STONEY was born at Portland,Co. Tipperary, on 13th May, His father was a strict Puritan and his mother (nee Butler) equally strict from a different point of view. Her four sons remarkably answered to her culture in mind, in address, and in manner of life. They had private tutors, and lived in a country home, with only country pursuits and pleasures.
J.B.S. entered Trinity College, huvudstaden i irland, at fifteen, taking his place at 70 out of At nineteen he was Senior Freshman and well up in Classics and lag. His first religious impression was as a boy, when the Rev. Baker Stoney, Rector of Castlebar, the friend and fellow-worker with Mr. Nagle of Achill, came to Portland. At family prayers he read Acts 9, and dwelt on the fact that God's salvation was so great that He could send a "light out of Heaven" to arrest one soul, and in that light was seen a Saviour in the glory of God for a man on earth who was stamping out His Name from the earth. He saw that just O
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Two biographies of J B Stoney
1. James Butler Stoney by our late brother Gavin Simpson
James Butler Stoney was born in Portland, County Tipperary, on May 13, , and when only 15, he entered Trinity College Dublin to study for the Bar. In during an outbreak of cholera, he was taken ill, and his first thought was &#;How can I meet a holy God?&#; Alone, he threw himself on his face and cried to the God he had heard of as a boy, who alone could receive the chief of sinners because the &#;Crucified One&#; was at His right hand. A long sleep restored him but he had been &#;born again.&#; &#;No more law for me,&#; he said, &#;I&#;ll be a witness to grace&#;—the grace that could only be revealed from glory for sinners. He joined the Divinity Class at the same College and completed his studies but was not ordained. During this period he spent time studying the Scriptures.
He married Mary Frances Elwood in Dublin in She was a daughter of Robert Elwood of Knockadoo County Roscommon in th