The Children's missionary newspaper [sometimes entitled The Children's monthly missionary newspaper] ed. by C.H. Bateman, Volume 9Christian Henry Bateman 1852 |
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Page 96 - The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling. Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall ; For God, who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all ! 4th 1st month, 1847.
Page 90 - Our day of grace is sunk in night, thy noon is in its prime; Oh turn and seek thy Saviour's face in this accepted time! So, Gentile, may Jerusalem a lesson prove to thee, And in the new Jerusalem thy home for ever be!
Page 54 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 36 - DEATH cannot make our souls afraid, If God be with us there ; We may walk through its darkest shade, And never yield to fear.
Page 50 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 90 - JERUSALEM, Jerusalem ! enthroned once on high, Thou favoured home of God on earth, thou heaven below the sky! Now brought to bondage with thy sons, a curse and grief to see, Jerusalem, Jerusalem ? our tears shall flow for thee.
Page 16 - Yes, Edward, yes," replied the maid ; " I see the bird on yonder tree." The poor boy sighed, and gently said, " Sister, I wish that I could see. " The flowers you say are very fair, And bright green leaves are on the trees, And pretty birds are singing there ; How beautiful for one who sees ! " Yet I the fragrant flowers can smell, And I can feel the green...
Page 52 - At last there came a fearful struggle; then the convulsed features relaxed, the ghastliness of death settled upon them, and the spirit seemed to have taken its flight. Suddenly, however, the countenance of the dying man was lighted with a heavenly radiance, his lips parted with a smile, his eye emitted a single joyful flash, before it turned cold and motionless for ever, and then the wild boy of the jungle was welcomed by his waiting angel-guide to the presence of that Saviour whom he had sought...
Page 74 - Beneath Moriah's rocky side A gentle fountain springs Silent and soft its waters glide, Like the peace the Spirit brings The thirsty Arab stoops to drink Of the cool and quiet wave, And the thirsty spirit stops to think Of Him who came to save. Siloam is the fountain's name, It means " One sent from God;" And thus the holy Saviour's fame. It gently spreads abroad. O grant that I, like this sweet well, May Jesus' image bear, And spend my life, my all, to tell How full his mercies are.
Page 52 - Karen boy; for no miasionory having yet been sent especially to that people, they received all their religious instruction through the medium of the Burmese language. And oh, such a greedy seeker after truth and holiness ! Every day he came to the white teachers to learn something more concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and the way of salvation; and every day his mind seemed to open, his feelings to enlarge, and his face to lose some portion of that indescribable look of stupidity which characterizes...