Social Evils: And Their Remedy, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... holy simplicity , is the remedy for the thousand evils , which are effects to the real cause of all misery and suffering , — that cause is sin . - If we propose to reform society , we begin at the wrong end , if we begin merely with the ...
... holy simplicity , is the remedy for the thousand evils , which are effects to the real cause of all misery and suffering , — that cause is sin . - If we propose to reform society , we begin at the wrong end , if we begin merely with the ...
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... Holy Bible . At last I was roused from my gloom by a ring at the door bell , or , I should say , a ring several times repeated . I heard it , without attending to the sound at first . I found Mary Armstrong , a kins- woman of my father ...
... Holy Bible . At last I was roused from my gloom by a ring at the door bell , or , I should say , a ring several times repeated . I heard it , without attending to the sound at first . I found Mary Armstrong , a kins- woman of my father ...
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... . He showed me what was good by his example , but he did not sufficiently instruct me by those holy precepts which the parent finds written for his use in the Word of God . He left me entirely to learn THE MECHANIC . 21.
... . He showed me what was good by his example , but he did not sufficiently instruct me by those holy precepts which the parent finds written for his use in the Word of God . He left me entirely to learn THE MECHANIC . 21.
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... holy Eli . They do not teach enough by precept , they do not make sufficient use of written means of grace , or they teach idly , or in a dry uninteresting manner ; their heart is full of love to Christ and things divine ; but out of ...
... holy Eli . They do not teach enough by precept , they do not make sufficient use of written means of grace , or they teach idly , or in a dry uninteresting manner ; their heart is full of love to Christ and things divine ; but out of ...
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... Holy Communion . Would to God I had profited by the lesson of humility he then taught me from that holy example ! My mind and memory retained it , heart and my practice were not altered by it . my The first evening of my arrival in ...
... Holy Communion . Would to God I had profited by the lesson of humility he then taught me from that holy example ! My mind and memory retained it , heart and my practice were not altered by it . my The first evening of my arrival in ...
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Page 111 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 100 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 94 - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Page 79 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him ; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 92 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 99 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 82 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Page 1 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 27 - In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 127 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.