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... lot of canal - drivers - such a sermon as they would listen to a good deal quicker than to a sermon from Talmage or Spurgeon , because I could speak to them in their own language : " And they were amazed and marveled , saying one to ...
... lot of canal - drivers - such a sermon as they would listen to a good deal quicker than to a sermon from Talmage or Spurgeon , because I could speak to them in their own language : " And they were amazed and marveled , saying one to ...
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... lots of bravado ; but down in my heart I was sick , because I had to go back to " school , " as I did to the asylum . O that I had known something about Jesus at that time , or that I had been taught that Jesus loved me ! It seemed to ...
... lots of bravado ; but down in my heart I was sick , because I had to go back to " school , " as I did to the asylum . O that I had known something about Jesus at that time , or that I had been taught that Jesus loved me ! It seemed to ...
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... lot who had not been in this country long , and did not know how we did things here . Well , I was with two more who were like myself , and I promise you we did not sleep much that night ! What a sight there was in the morning ! Men ...
... lot who had not been in this country long , and did not know how we did things here . Well , I was with two more who were like myself , and I promise you we did not sleep much that night ! What a sight there was in the morning ! Men ...
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... lots of boodle , and nothing to do but spend it . I joined the fire department as " minute man , " and was connected with it some three or four years , and was presented by the boys with a silver cup , the tragedian , the late John ...
... lots of boodle , and nothing to do but spend it . I joined the fire department as " minute man , " and was connected with it some three or four years , and was presented by the boys with a silver cup , the tragedian , the late John ...
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... lots of money out of it ; but I won't tell how I made it , because it will do no good , and it might lead others to do the I lived off from it a whole summer , and it took lots of money to keep me ; but they " tumbled to " it at last ...
... lots of money out of it ; but I won't tell how I made it , because it will do no good , and it might lead others to do the I lived off from it a whole summer , and it took lots of money to keep me ; but they " tumbled to " it at last ...
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Page 108 - Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation ; on thee do I wait all the day.
Page 196 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 39 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 155 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 12 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 150 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 167 - Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the »cts. He seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men.
Page 167 - Her rest is broken — the sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned by melancholy dreams — " dry sorrow drinks her blood," until her enfeebled frame sinks under the slightest external injury. Look for her, after a little while, and you find friendship weeping over her untimely grave, and wondering that one, who but lately glowed with all the radiance of health and beauty, should so speedily be brought down to "darkness and the worm.
Page 68 - I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Page 167 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.