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title: 'Patience Essential to Success: A Commencement Discourse Preached in the College Chapel of the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute, July 9th, 1854'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Samuel Kennedy Talmage'
date: 1854-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Devotional (General)'
- 'Preaching'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 8'
- 'James 5'
- 'Romans 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1854-patience-essential-to-success-a-commencement-discourse-preached-in-the-college-chapel-of-the-forsyth-female-collegiate-institute-july-9th-1854
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# Patience Essential to Success: A Commencement Discourse Preached in the College Chapel of the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute, July 9th, 1854

1854 commencement sermon urging patient, persevering Christian growth—'bring forth fruit with patience.' Argues lasting character, intellect, and service arise from steady, laborious endurance.

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