Hidden Life: Memorials of John Whitmore WinslowJohn F. Shaw, 1872 - 214 pages |
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... experience of the gifted and holy subject has most in sympathy . It was to the author a touching and expressive incident that , while the present edition was being revised for the press , he received the personal testimony of a Cleryman ...
... experience of the gifted and holy subject has most in sympathy . It was to the author a touching and expressive incident that , while the present edition was being revised for the press , he received the personal testimony of a Cleryman ...
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... experience , that there is no friend like JESUS : and that while other friends are fickle and change- able , He changes not . Oh that we followed not this poor world as we do ! We chase it like a bubble in the air , and with all its ...
... experience , that there is no friend like JESUS : and that while other friends are fickle and change- able , He changes not . Oh that we followed not this poor world as we do ! We chase it like a bubble in the air , and with all its ...
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... experience has not taught us to bear the trials of life with the same fortitude as they do . Much depends upon our constitu- tional temperament . I must confess that I myself am naturally soon made anxious and sorrowful . But I trust ...
... experience has not taught us to bear the trials of life with the same fortitude as they do . Much depends upon our constitu- tional temperament . I must confess that I myself am naturally soon made anxious and sorrowful . But I trust ...
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... experience the happy art of float- ing serenely and safely upon the ruffled waters of early life - even in cultivating a close , prayerful intimacy with JESUS . We strike upon another rich vein of spiritual thought in the following ...
... experience the happy art of float- ing serenely and safely upon the ruffled waters of early life - even in cultivating a close , prayerful intimacy with JESUS . We strike upon another rich vein of spiritual thought in the following ...
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... experienced . I have felt such a willingness to die ! a feeling that death would be no awful thing to me , having a wish to quit this more awful world . But painful , yet no less blessed , trial has done it all . And oh , may I be able ...
... experienced . I have felt such a willingness to die ! a feeling that death would be no awful thing to me , having a wish to quit this more awful world . But painful , yet no less blessed , trial has done it all . And oh , may I be able ...
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Page 161 - And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet; and heard his word. 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Page 77 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 84 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 166 - Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 196 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and, with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves.
Page 214 - Some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna, at the end of the Seventeenth Century, extracted from the Official and Private Correspondence of Robert...
Page x - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 62 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 28 - Who points the clouds their course, Whom winds and seas obey, He shall direct thy wandering feet, He shall prepare thy way.
Page 167 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.