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... Christian public . In it he trusts is embodied , under the names of truly eminent writers , a mass of sacred erudi- tion ; where the most remarkable incidents in the Holy Scriptures are clearly elucidated , and made equal to the ...
... Christian public . In it he trusts is embodied , under the names of truly eminent writers , a mass of sacred erudi- tion ; where the most remarkable incidents in the Holy Scriptures are clearly elucidated , and made equal to the ...
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... CHRIST , THE SAME YESTERDAY , TO - DAY , AND FOREVER . Rev. C. C. Vanarsdale , D. D. . . Philadelphia DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN . Rev. M. A. De Wolf Howe , D. D. . • 14 • • 27 Philadelphia 29 • CONSOLATION FOR MORTALITY . W. Cullen ...
... CHRIST , THE SAME YESTERDAY , TO - DAY , AND FOREVER . Rev. C. C. Vanarsdale , D. D. . . Philadelphia DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN . Rev. M. A. De Wolf Howe , D. D. . • 14 • • 27 Philadelphia 29 • CONSOLATION FOR MORTALITY . W. Cullen ...
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... CHRIST With His crown of thorns and broken reed ! How rare a Face ! The thoughtless passer stands Transfixed , as that meek , mournful eye meets his , And sees no longer Art's elaborate work , But CHRIST Himself , as on that mournful ...
... CHRIST With His crown of thorns and broken reed ! How rare a Face ! The thoughtless passer stands Transfixed , as that meek , mournful eye meets his , And sees no longer Art's elaborate work , But CHRIST Himself , as on that mournful ...
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... Christian dispensation , we yet have , proceeding from the Holy Oracle , a sure prophecy against tyranny and sin . The roll of fallen empires , which have trampled upon weakness and oppressed humanity , is not complete . The ruined ...
... Christian dispensation , we yet have , proceeding from the Holy Oracle , a sure prophecy against tyranny and sin . The roll of fallen empires , which have trampled upon weakness and oppressed humanity , is not complete . The ruined ...
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... Christian Revelation ; the Gospel of truth , grace , and joy . As we contemplate it in its dark beginnings , among the hills of Judea , among the hard trials of him who issued it , and the obdurate hearts of those who rejected it , may ...
... Christian Revelation ; the Gospel of truth , grace , and joy . As we contemplate it in its dark beginnings , among the hills of Judea , among the hard trials of him who issued it , and the obdurate hearts of those who rejected it , may ...
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Page 39 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 80 - Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Page 96 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 133 - And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him, Saying ; What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee ? And he said $ Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Page 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon.
Page 79 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 40 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the...
Page 39 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 96 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 171 - Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again : but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.