The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 34-35Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1881 - Baptists |
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... speak one would have thought he had no piously nurtured childhood to remember , and that he had never looked upon religion but to despise it . But it was not so . A noble and gentle - hearted man came to see the dying soldier . He ...
... speak one would have thought he had no piously nurtured childhood to remember , and that he had never looked upon religion but to despise it . But it was not so . A noble and gentle - hearted man came to see the dying soldier . He ...
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... speaking some words of sympathy , he looked at me with his blue eyes - he could not move - it was the night before he died - and breathed into my ear these words : " I am strong in Him . " The words were few , and uttered feebly . They ...
... speaking some words of sympathy , he looked at me with his blue eyes - he could not move - it was the night before he died - and breathed into my ear these words : " I am strong in Him . " The words were few , and uttered feebly . They ...
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... speak , during certain hours of the day , and this they do with such regularity that one can pretty cor- rectly tell the time from the opening or closing of their petals . Many people suffer from chronic indigestion from the mere fact ...
... speak , during certain hours of the day , and this they do with such regularity that one can pretty cor- rectly tell the time from the opening or closing of their petals . Many people suffer from chronic indigestion from the mere fact ...
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... speaking in such a manner ? " The gentleman said he knew nothing about God , for he had never seen Him The baron did not notice at this time what the gentleman said , but the next morning took occasion first to show a beautiful picture ...
... speaking in such a manner ? " The gentleman said he knew nothing about God , for he had never seen Him The baron did not notice at this time what the gentleman said , but the next morning took occasion first to show a beautiful picture ...
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ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS . THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE . - I was speaking the other day to a man whose views are what is termed infidel : he thought that there was nothing in the Christian's religion . I said that the Christian had nothing to ...
ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS . THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE . - I was speaking the other day to a man whose views are what is termed infidel : he thought that there was nothing in the Christian's religion . I said that the Christian had nothing to ...
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Page 63 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 107 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 54 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 72 - There is an eye that never sleeps Beneath the wing of night; There is an ear that never shuts, When sink the beams of light.
Page 25 - No good in creatures can be found, But may be found in thee : I must have all things, and abound, While God is God to me.
Page 24 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee...
Page 72 - BE not afraid to pray — to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope ; but ever pray, Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light. Far is the time, remote from human sight, When war and discord on the earth shall cease ; Yet every prayer for universal peace Avails the blessed time to expedite. Whate'er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven, Though it be what thou canst not hope to see: Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so...
Page 115 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him •where the stranger was : he replied, ' I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee.
Page 89 - In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Page 10 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed, is done...