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... nature by having children of his own , can the more readily sympathize with the families entrusted to his care . He can understand their struggles . He can share their sorrows . He can identify himself with their several positions . And ...
... nature by having children of his own , can the more readily sympathize with the families entrusted to his care . He can understand their struggles . He can share their sorrows . He can identify himself with their several positions . And ...
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... Nature cannot satisfy . She knows but of sorrow . Dear though the voice of the Poet may be , dearer yet are the accents of the Preacher . I would listen again to the almost - inspired Dreamer of Bedford jail † — " The Valley of ...
... Nature cannot satisfy . She knows but of sorrow . Dear though the voice of the Poet may be , dearer yet are the accents of the Preacher . I would listen again to the almost - inspired Dreamer of Bedford jail † — " The Valley of ...
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... Sacramentum , " mentioned therein , was the most solemn Christian ordinance , of the nature of which the Roman was neces- sarily ignorant . But one grand damning sign of Apostasy is yet needed 28 Papers from a Parsonage :
... Sacramentum , " mentioned therein , was the most solemn Christian ordinance , of the nature of which the Roman was neces- sarily ignorant . But one grand damning sign of Apostasy is yet needed 28 Papers from a Parsonage :
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... nature of his call- ing , and he determined to follow it to the end . He did , in very deed , take up his Cross . He wore it on his bosom night and day continually . It went with him on his journeyings ; it was borne by him on shipboard ...
... nature of his call- ing , and he determined to follow it to the end . He did , in very deed , take up his Cross . He wore it on his bosom night and day continually . It went with him on his journeyings ; it was borne by him on shipboard ...
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... nature , and lifted up as Jesus Himself bore it , that there shall be no response ? " Come , take up the Cross ! " is still the summons - not , however , as of old in the sense given to it when perverted by men , but in the righteous ...
... nature , and lifted up as Jesus Himself bore it , that there shall be no response ? " Come , take up the Cross ! " is still the summons - not , however , as of old in the sense given to it when perverted by men , but in the righteous ...
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Page 280 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 272 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 242 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 222 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Page 6 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 49 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom...
Page 234 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 49 - And we also bless Thy holy Name for all Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith and fear ; beseeching Thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of Thy heavenly kingdom.
Page 73 - O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments...
Page 121 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.