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... turned Chris- 66 Well , Mat D- tian - how is it ? " M- replied , with undisturbed tranquillity and solemn emphasis , " I hope that through the mercy of God I have been brought to a knowledge of the truth . " “ Tell me , ” responded his ...
... turned Chris- 66 Well , Mat D- tian - how is it ? " M- replied , with undisturbed tranquillity and solemn emphasis , " I hope that through the mercy of God I have been brought to a knowledge of the truth . " “ Tell me , ” responded his ...
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... turned to gaze again upon the face of my dear mother . A death - like expression sat upon that face . I closed the door . The heavens were still hung with blackness - a sense of perfect desolateness came over me . The thought was ...
... turned to gaze again upon the face of my dear mother . A death - like expression sat upon that face . I closed the door . The heavens were still hung with blackness - a sense of perfect desolateness came over me . The thought was ...
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... turned back . On the other hand , it became but too apparent to all around her that she was wasting down to death . As she lay stretched on the couch of languishing , day after day growing more and more feeble , she herself came to the ...
... turned back . On the other hand , it became but too apparent to all around her that she was wasting down to death . As she lay stretched on the couch of languishing , day after day growing more and more feeble , she herself came to the ...
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... turned the eye of my poor Jane to Jesus . Poor Jane ! she died about three years ago ; but she died blessing Elizabeth M'Ellen , and rejoicing in God her Saviour . " - Here the worthy man drew the back of his hand across his face , to ...
... turned the eye of my poor Jane to Jesus . Poor Jane ! she died about three years ago ; but she died blessing Elizabeth M'Ellen , and rejoicing in God her Saviour . " - Here the worthy man drew the back of his hand across his face , to ...
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... turned from this funeral scene , and hastened on my way to a station where I had an appointment to preach the same evening , the remarks of an eminent servant of God occurred to me , which he offered just after describing the interment ...
... turned from this funeral scene , and hastened on my way to a station where I had an appointment to preach the same evening , the remarks of an eminent servant of God occurred to me , which he offered just after describing the interment ...
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Page 131 - For thy Maker is thine husband ; The Lord of hosts is his name ; And thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Page 175 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 361 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 132 - For this is as the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth ; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Page 104 - 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 149 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Page 61 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 382 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 347 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 309 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.