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... sorrows . He can identify himself with their several positions . And by many a sick bed , and particularly by those of her own sex , comes the minister's wife , and her soft tread when perceived brings an audible blessing from the lips ...
... sorrows . He can identify himself with their several positions . And by many a sick bed , and particularly by those of her own sex , comes the minister's wife , and her soft tread when perceived brings an audible blessing from the lips ...
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... 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 Humiliation is the best and most fruitful ground ...
... 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 Humiliation is the best and most fruitful ground ...
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... sorrow , to give us the stillness of submission , and to perfect His strength in our weakness . A little domestic scene . arises before me . There is a Mother , whose last daily employment is visiting her children's nursery , that lies ...
... sorrow , to give us the stillness of submission , and to perfect His strength in our weakness . A little domestic scene . arises before me . There is a Mother , whose last daily employment is visiting her children's nursery , that lies ...
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... sorrow for them , even as others which have no hope . Of our prayers they have no need . God has done for them exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think . He has taken them home , and has housed them from the storm . And ...
... sorrow for them , even as others which have no hope . Of our prayers they have no need . God has done for them exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think . He has taken them home , and has housed them from the storm . And ...
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... sorrows . No marvel is it , therefore , that there be some who live less in the Present than in the Past , or that one of our noblest English poems should endeavour to deli- neate " the Pleasures of Memory . " Sobered thought , however ...
... sorrows . No marvel is it , therefore , that there be some who live less in the Present than in the Past , or that one of our noblest English poems should endeavour to deli- neate " the Pleasures of Memory . " Sobered thought , however ...
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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.