Home Words for Heart and HearthJ. Nisbet, 1877 - Christian fiction, English |
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AGNES GIBERNE answer asked Bible bird Bishop Bishop of Gloucester Bishop of Lincoln blacksmith blessed child Christ Christian Church comfort cottage Cranchester Cranmer death Dorothy dress England England's Martyr-Bishops evil eyes face faith father flowers FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL garden girl give God's grace hand happy head heard heart heaven Henry VIII Holy Home Words hope HUGH LATIMER Hylton Jacob Jesus king labour lady Latimer LITTLE FOXES live look Lord ma'am master mind Miss Eveleigh Miss Penny morning mother never Nicholas Ridley night once peace poor pray prayer Prov Rachel Rachie RICHARD WILTON Ridley Rose Ruth Scripture seemed sing smile Sophy sorrow soul speak spirit SUMMERTIDE sure sweet tell TENDER GRAPES Thee things THOMAS CRANMER Thou thought Tyndall unto voice wait walk Witherby Wynkyn
Popular passages
Page 66 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 25 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 106 - Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Page 201 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse heels, So that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 178 - 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 60 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 242 - Thou, who didst come to bring On Thy redeeming wing Healing and sight, Health to the sick in mind, Sight to the inly blind, — Oh, now to all mankind Let there be light...
Page 68 - I WAS a wandering sheep, I did not love the fold ; I did not love my Shepherd's voice, I would not be controlled.
Page 178 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 142 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...