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... unto him into the ark . " XII . Noah's Prayer . GEN . viii . 20. " And Noah built an altar unto the Lord . " TRADITION has preserved the prayer of Noah , and the learned John Gregory gives it to us as he gathered it from the Arabic and ...
... unto him into the ark . " XII . Noah's Prayer . GEN . viii . 20. " And Noah built an altar unto the Lord . " TRADITION has preserved the prayer of Noah , and the learned John Gregory gives it to us as he gathered it from the Arabic and ...
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... unto her , Thou God seest me . " SOME years since a trio of gentlemen , members of a large mercantile firm , came into the office of the writer , and , under injunctions of profound secrecy , desired the favour of using the window for a ...
... unto her , Thou God seest me . " SOME years since a trio of gentlemen , members of a large mercantile firm , came into the office of the writer , and , under injunctions of profound secrecy , desired the favour of using the window for a ...
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... unto Thee . " THE late Bishop Selwyn used often to quote that motto of John Wesley's , " Save all you can and give all you save , " and he did not think that charity began until after a tithe had been paid to God . " Whatever your ...
... unto Thee . " THE late Bishop Selwyn used often to quote that motto of John Wesley's , " Save all you can and give all you save , " and he did not think that charity began until after a tithe had been paid to God . " Whatever your ...
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... unto Thee . " " TAKE it quick , quick , " said a merchant , who had promised , like Jacob , to return to the Lord a tenth of all that he should give him , and found that it amounted to so large a sum , that he said , " I cannot give so ...
... unto Thee . " " TAKE it quick , quick , " said a merchant , who had promised , like Jacob , to return to the Lord a tenth of all that he should give him , and found that it amounted to so large a sum , that he said , " I cannot give so ...
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... unto his brethren , I am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? " THE Huguenots were persecuted beyond measure in southern France , and were not allowed to meet together for worship . On New Year's Day , 1756 , the Church at Nîmes held a ...
... unto his brethren , I am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? " THE Huguenots were persecuted beyond measure in southern France , and were not allowed to meet together for worship . On New Year's Day , 1756 , the Church at Nîmes held a ...
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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.