The Sunday School Teacher: Designed to Aid in Elevating and Perfecting the Sabbath School System

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Johnson, 1844 - Sunday school teachers - 294 pages

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Page 184 - Alone, yet not alone am I, Though in this solitude so drear ; * I feel my Saviour always nigh, He comes the weary hour to cheer. I am with him and he with me, — E'en here alone I cannot be !" The Colonel desired her to sing the hymn as she used to do.
Page 204 - Mammy ! mammy !" and, in raising this delightful sound, all the rest simultaneously joined. My wife, who, though reluctant at first, had determined, on my accepting the situation, to give me her utmost aid, tried with myse.lf to calm the tumult, but our efforts were utterly in vain. The paroxysm of sorrow increased instead of subsiding; and so intolerable did it become, that she could endure it no longer, and left the room...
Page 289 - I could not refrain from paying him a farewell visit. Our conversation — the memory of it will never fade from the tablet of my mind — sealed my conversion. He gave me a book — it has ever been my constant companion — the study of it has formed my most delightful occupation — its contents have often consoled me.
Page 12 - Knowledge is an excellent thing," repeated he. " My boys know more at six and seven years old than I did at twelve. They can read all sorts of books, and talk on all sorts of subjects. The world is a great deal wiser than it used to be. Every body knows something of every thing now. Do you not think, sir, that knowledge is an excellent thing ?" " Why, sir," replied the old man, looking gravely, " that depends entirely on the use to which it is applied.
Page 189 - Content thee, boy ! in my bower to dwell, Here are sweet sounds which thou lovest well ; Flutes on the air in the stilly noon, Harps which the wandering breezes tune ; And the silvery wood-note of many a bird, Whose voice was ne'er in thy mountains heard.
Page 153 - All listen now." After a pause, " Yes, Sir, we hear it." He then took off the case, and held the case in one hand and the watch in the other. " Now, children which is the watch ? You &ee there are two which look like watches ?" " The littlest one in your right hand, Sir.
Page 13 - I see ! I see !" said the little man, " I see !" " When a ship is steered aright, the sail that she hoists up, enables her the sooner to get into port ; but if steered wrong, the more sail she carries, the further will she go out of her course.
Page 10 - While the world is impelled, with such violence, in opposite directions ; while a spirit of giddiness and revolt is shed upon the nations, and the seeds of mutation are so thickly sown, the improvement of the mass of the people will be our grand security, in the neglect of which the politeness, the refinement, and the knowledge accumulated in the higher orders, weak and unprotected, will be exposed to...
Page 180 - What is that, mother ? The swan, my love ! He is floating down from his native grove ; No loved one, now, no nestling nigh, He is floating down by himself to die; Death darkens his eye, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings. Live so, my love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home.

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