 ... but, growing faint and weak, he closed the book, continuing, however, to hold it in his hands, with his eyes shut, and to press it with fervour and affection. I knelt by him, and read to him a chapter of St. John, and prayed : he joined faintly in...  The story of a life, by the author of Scenes and impressions in Egypt and Italy - Page 148by Joseph Moyle Sherer - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...he read a little in the morning out of the pocket-bible which you gave him on his tenth birth-day ; but, growing faint and weak, he closed the book, continuing,...I whispered to him peace, and told him it had been mightily atoned for. " Yes, I know," said he, " in whom I have believed. I love and trust him ; but... | |
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