One Talent Improved: Or, the Life and Labors of Miss Susan G. Bowler: A Successful Sunday-school Teacher

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Carlton and Porter, 1845 - Sunday school teachers - 197 pages
 

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Page 76 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Page 110 - Quick as the apple of an eye, O God, my conscience make ! Awake my soul when sin is nigh, And keep it still awake.
Page 78 - Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Page 1 - Come forth to gird the weak, untutored mind, — Yet ask no payment, save one smile refined Of grateful love, — one tear of contrite pain, — Meekly ye forfeit to your mission kind The rest of earthly Sabbaths. — Be your gain A Sabbath without end, mid yon celestial plain.
Page 95 - Oh wretched state of deep despair; To see my God remove, And fix my doleful station where I must not taste His love...
Page 105 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Page 83 - Though in affliction's furnace tried, Unhurt, on snares and death I'll tread ; Though sin assail, and hell, thrown wide, Pour all its flames upon my head ; Like Moses' bush I'll mount the higher, And flourish, unconsumed, in fire.
Page 114 - And hallow'd my whole heart to thee. 3 When pain o'er my weak flesh prevails, With' lamb-like patience arm my breast, When grief my wounded soul assails, In lowly meekness may I rest. 4 Close by thy side still may I keep, Howe'er life's various current flow ; With steadfast eye mark every step, And follow thee where'er thou go.
Page 156 - Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee,
Page 123 - Stand all engaged to make me blest. 2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise, Thou art my Father and my God; And I am thine by sacred ties, Thy son, thy servant bought with blood.

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