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... prayer , are what the Committee most appreciate and seek after , being fully persuaded that men of this class , if otherwise eligible , will soon improve and become good Missionaries . " The work of the Mission is , of course , quite ...
... prayer , are what the Committee most appreciate and seek after , being fully persuaded that men of this class , if otherwise eligible , will soon improve and become good Missionaries . " The work of the Mission is , of course , quite ...
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... its truthfulness is perceived to admit of no question . May its appalling character stimulate every Christian heart to increased prayer and increased effort ! most neglected portions of London . It seeks to effect INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... its truthfulness is perceived to admit of no question . May its appalling character stimulate every Christian heart to increased prayer and increased effort ! most neglected portions of London . It seeks to effect INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... prayer in many a pious heart . The condition of the humbler classes is most materially affected , both spiritually and tempo- rally , by want of education . The writer has pursued most extensively a system of inquiry , and the result ...
... prayer in many a pious heart . The condition of the humbler classes is most materially affected , both spiritually and tempo- rally , by want of education . The writer has pursued most extensively a system of inquiry , and the result ...
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... prayers as you bid me , and I puts my hands afore my eyes so , ( covering his face with his hands , ) well , I sees such beauti- ful things , sparkles like , all a floating about , and I wished to ax yer sir , if that aint a something ...
... prayers as you bid me , and I puts my hands afore my eyes so , ( covering his face with his hands , ) well , I sees such beauti- ful things , sparkles like , all a floating about , and I wished to ax yer sir , if that aint a something ...
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... prayer . Mrs. T. , who was an aged woman , always listened respectfully to my reading in the Scriptures , instruction , and prayers ; and as I regarded her as one of my special cases , I had up to the period of her decease , about a ...
... prayer . Mrs. T. , who was an aged woman , always listened respectfully to my reading in the Scriptures , instruction , and prayers ; and as I regarded her as one of my special cases , I had up to the period of her decease , about a ...
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Page 31 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 147 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 219 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 133 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 59 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 338 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 331 - ... THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale...
Page 209 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 335 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 40 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.