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... light burning at a certain window which they well knew , " Hush ! " one said to the others , " our pastor is watching for us " ; and so , indeed , this valiant soldier of the cross did watch and wrestle for his people . He prayed by ...
... light burning at a certain window which they well knew , " Hush ! " one said to the others , " our pastor is watching for us " ; and so , indeed , this valiant soldier of the cross did watch and wrestle for his people . He prayed by ...
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... light , to cause the lamp to burn always . " IT is related in the biography of one who lived to become a devoted Christian man , that while he was yet a little boy , the passage read from the Bible in the family on a certain occasion ...
... light , to cause the lamp to burn always . " IT is related in the biography of one who lived to become a devoted Christian man , that while he was yet a little boy , the passage read from the Bible in the family on a certain occasion ...
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... light descending from the enthroned Christ is reflected in a dazzling star . By which I have always understood Tintoret to mean what Holman Hunt means by his " Light of the World , " but with the further lesson that the visitation which ...
... light descending from the enthroned Christ is reflected in a dazzling star . By which I have always understood Tintoret to mean what Holman Hunt means by his " Light of the World , " but with the further lesson that the visitation which ...
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... light . A memorable incident we give in the words of his loving biographer . She is recording a conversation which her father had with her sister - in - law , Mrs. Macpherson , who says : " I had a long talk with dear papa upon the ...
... light . A memorable incident we give in the words of his loving biographer . She is recording a conversation which her father had with her sister - in - law , Mrs. Macpherson , who says : " I had a long talk with dear papa upon the ...
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... light with you walk while ye have the light . " There is something very sug- gestive in the motto upon a sun - dial over an old cottage at Bishopthorpe , near York , " Tempus labile , " slipping time . Over the porch of East Leake ...
... light with you walk while ye have the light . " There is something very sug- gestive in the motto upon a sun - dial over an old cottage at Bishopthorpe , near York , " Tempus labile , " slipping time . Over the porch of East Leake ...
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Page 180 - See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down ! Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small ; Love, so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.
Page 103 - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Page 224 - I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves...
Page 140 - The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ; Without our aid He did us make ; We are His flock, He doth us feed, And for His sheep He doth us take.
Page 318 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 201 - If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Page 142 - Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 106 - A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Page 148 - My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Page 139 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.