Catharine and Craufurd Tait: Wife and Son of Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canterbury : a Memoir

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Macmillan, 1880 - Clergymen's families - 395 pages

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Page 172 - HERE we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again, In heaven we part no more ! Oh, that will be joyful, Joyful, joyful, joyful ! Oh, that will be joyful, When we meet to part no more ! All who love the Lord below, When they die to heaven will go, And sing with saints above.
Page 157 - I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the Lord's leisure ; be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the Lord.
Page 286 - Lord, honourable ; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words : then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 247 - I have a son, a third sweet son ; his age I cannot tell, For they reckon not by years and months, where he is gone to dwell. To us for fourteen anxious months, his infant smiles were given, And then he bade farewell to earth, and went to live in heaven.
Page 67 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light ? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 183 - He who asked of thee Loveth a cheerful giver." So she raised Her gushing eyes, and, ere the tear-drop dried Upon its fringes, smiled — and that meek smile, Like Abraham's faith, was counted righteousness.
Page 249 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Page 183 - What shall I render thee, Father Supreme, For thy rich gifts, and this the best of all?" Said the young mother, as she fondly watched Her sleeping babe. There was an answering voice That night in dreams : — "Thou hast a tender flower Upon thy breast — fed with the dews of love : Send me that flower. Such flowers there are in heaven.
Page 128 - Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 6 - It was a strange turn of fate which made her open her heart next year to the very candidate whose success she had deprecated, and become the happy partner of his life at Rugby, Carlisle, Fulham, Lambeth ; sharing in all his deepest and truest interests ; helping forward for thirty-five years every good work which he was called to promote ; united to him in the truest fellowship of soul ; while still tempering, by the association of her early Oxford bias, whatever might otherwise have been harsh in...

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