The reverend Eliot began the service with a prayer in English, pronounced with the deep pathos of that voice always so touching. The wind made, as it were, melodious responses, as it stirred the reedy branches of the hemlock. Every heart was touched and... Naomi: Or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago - Page 92by Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gotthold Salomon - Jewish sermons - 1839 - 264 pages
...O BREATH, AND BREATHE UPON THESE SLAIN, THAT THEY MAY LIVE. So I PROPHESIED AS HE COMMANDED ME, AND THE BREATH CAME UNTO THEM, AND THEY LIVED, AND STOOD UPON THEIR FEET, AN EXCEEDINGLY GREAT ARMY (Ezekiel chap. xxxvii.) These bones betoken the little flock of Israel. Say... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 1848 - 652 pages
...hemlock, whose deeply-dark and spreading branches threw an imposing shade upon the noble and serioujs faces of the pale men, contrasting so strongly with...sorrow, and indignation struggled upon the uplifted faces of the women, and many of them wept aloud. This seemed to show the kind of preaching they needed... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...meek, subdued countenances stamped with the seal of patient endurance and humble servitude. • • The reverend Eliot began the service with a prayer...sorrow and indignation struggled upon the uplifted faces of the women, and many of them wept aloud. This seemed to shew the kind of preaching they needed... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - New England - 1857 - 488 pages
...winds, 0 Breath, and breathe upon these that they may live ; so I prophesied as be commanded me, and the breath came unto them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army." This discourse lasted for an hour, and one would be gratified now to know... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - New England - 1857 - 502 pages
...winds, 0 Breath, and breathe upon these that they may live ; so I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came unto them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army." This discourse lasted for an hour, and one would be gratified now to know... | |
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