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... holy things , those mysteries of the Bible which to some are so dark and intricate . The Editor rejoices that he is permitted to be the instru- ment in the presentation of the following work to the Christian public . In it he trusts is ...
... holy things , those mysteries of the Bible which to some are so dark and intricate . The Editor rejoices that he is permitted to be the instru- ment in the presentation of the following work to the Christian public . In it he trusts is ...
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... Holy Land . The vision deepens let me write it here : - ' Twas evening in Judea . Through the day The Saviour taught the people , and the crowd Still lingered , for the magic of His words Held every ear , and gently won their hearts ...
... Holy Land . The vision deepens let me write it here : - ' Twas evening in Judea . Through the day The Saviour taught the people , and the crowd Still lingered , for the magic of His words Held every ear , and gently won their hearts ...
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... holy lips are pressed ; and then He says , " My Father's kingdom is of such as these . " How blest those mothers as from His embrace They took again their children to their own ! How blest those children , into whose young hearts The ...
... holy lips are pressed ; and then He says , " My Father's kingdom is of such as these . " How blest those mothers as from His embrace They took again their children to their own ! How blest those children , into whose young hearts The ...
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... 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 cities , destined to declare through ages the terrible doom ...
... 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 cities , destined to declare through ages the terrible doom ...
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... holy religion to the common appointments of life , we shall be struck with the same thing ; - gracious effects from rigid causes ; -water out of the rock . Let us go and put questions to Labor , and Hard- ship , and Peril , and Pain ...
... holy religion to the common appointments of life , we shall be struck with the same thing ; - gracious effects from rigid causes ; -water out of the rock . Let us go and put questions to Labor , and Hard- ship , and Peril , and Pain ...
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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.