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... Ye waters , peace , be still ! " The chaf'd waves sank reposing , As wild herds rest on field and hill , When clear calm days are closing . And turning to the startled men Who watch'd that surge 1 * THE TEMPEST STILLED Gilborne, LL D.
... Ye waters , peace , be still ! " The chaf'd waves sank reposing , As wild herds rest on field and hill , When clear calm days are closing . And turning to the startled men Who watch'd that surge 1 * THE TEMPEST STILLED Gilborne, LL D.
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... rest upon the world's unwritten history , this at least we know— that boundless wealth , and luxuriant harvests , and broad domains , and mighty ramparts , can never avert a country's fall , unless the people be virtuous and free , and ...
... rest upon the world's unwritten history , this at least we know— that boundless wealth , and luxuriant harvests , and broad domains , and mighty ramparts , can never avert a country's fall , unless the people be virtuous and free , and ...
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... rest . If we turn from the dispensation of our 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 ...
... rest . If we turn from the dispensation of our 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 ...
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... rest . We must endeavor if we would attain to any gen- erous satisfaction . Men may think to resist the de- cree . But it is as fixed as the nature of their minds and the conditions of their being . There is no more peace for those who ...
... rest . We must endeavor if we would attain to any gen- erous satisfaction . Men may think to resist the de- cree . But it is as fixed as the nature of their minds and the conditions of their being . There is no more peace for those who ...
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... other of these ; while the demands for great exertion are often remitted , and hardship and imminent danger are to many scarcely known . These are more depressing , too , than the rest . They 24 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE .
... other of these ; while the demands for great exertion are often remitted , and hardship and imminent danger are to many scarcely known . These are more depressing , too , than the rest . They 24 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE .
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ancient apostle Babylon beasts beautiful beggar Behold Bethany blessed blind bosom brought called character Christian cometh comfort Cyrus darkness death disciples divine earth Egypt eternal Euphrates faith Father fear feel feet Galilee gates give glory gospel grace hath heart heaven Herodotus holy hope hour invisible Israel Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth Jews Judas Judea king king of Babylon land Lazarus light living look Lord Mary Medes mercy mighty mind Mortal vision mother Mount of Olives mountain mourning Nazareth passeth Nineveh o'er palace perish Persians Peter Pharaoh's daughter piety Pilate PONTIUS PILATE prayer prophet rebuke rejoice RESCUE OF MOSES river rock ruins sacred salvation Samaria Samaritans Saviour says sorrow soul spirit summit tears Temple of Belus thee things thirst tion true truth utter voice walls wept woman wonder words worship youth
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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.