The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, Volume 1, Issues 1-12John and Charles Mozley, 1851 |
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... heaven - sent name of yore , And through their lives they strove to be Like that good name they bore . And Thou , O Saviour , art to us What Thy Name doth imply , Our Jesus and Immanuel , Our God for ever nigh . ' Miss O. Yes , that ...
... heaven - sent name of yore , And through their lives they strove to be Like that good name they bore . And Thou , O Saviour , art to us What Thy Name doth imply , Our Jesus and Immanuel , Our God for ever nigh . ' Miss O. Yes , that ...
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... heaven . ' Miss O. And as His Members , the whole family in heaven and earth bear one of His blessed names . Audrey . O , I know some verses about that , which I like very much : — ' Old Antioch shall answer ye What title I would claim ...
... heaven . ' Miss O. And as His Members , the whole family in heaven and earth bear one of His blessed names . Audrey . O , I know some verses about that , which I like very much : — ' Old Antioch shall answer ye What title I would claim ...
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... In Bible pages found . Mother ! whose accents made most sweet What else I held in shame , Dost thou yet whisper up in heaven , My poor lost Christian name ? Brothers and sisters , mockers oft Of the quaint name 22 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
... In Bible pages found . Mother ! whose accents made most sweet What else I held in shame , Dost thou yet whisper up in heaven , My poor lost Christian name ? Brothers and sisters , mockers oft Of the quaint name 22 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
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... heaven , Who have served Him here below . THE hamlet of Woodleigh had , during many years , been growing up near the town of Somerton . We often see hamlets grow up in this way , like the offshoots of some great tree , no longer showing ...
... heaven , Who have served Him here below . THE hamlet of Woodleigh had , during many years , been growing up near the town of Somerton . We often see hamlets grow up in this way , like the offshoots of some great tree , no longer showing ...
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... heaven for help ; but she did not know what to say , so she only spoke her sympathy and kind wishes , and , telling her who she was , promised that her brother should soon call at the cottage . There was an old woman standing at the ...
... heaven for help ; but she did not know what to say , so she only spoke her sympathy and kind wishes , and , telling her who she was , promised that her brother should soon call at the cottage . There was an old woman standing at the ...
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Page 419 - weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from
Page 99 - to deserts. Not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. ' Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm Icing
Page 75 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying know the Lord, for they all shall know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their
Page 99 - thy watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed; nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and
Page 419 - I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, even my servant David; He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd. ' And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them.
Page 408 - I shall see Him, but not now ; I shall behold Him, but not nigh. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite all the corners of Moab.
Page 417 - eyes ! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend ; See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings, And heaped with products of Sabean
Page 415 - And in soft silence shed the kindly shower ! The sick and weak, the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white robed innocence from heaven descend.
Page 152 - Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them. O taste and see how gracious the Lord is; blessed is the man that
Page 99 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee. Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up