The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12Cortlandt Van Rensselaer W. H. Mitchell (etc.), 1859 - Presbyterian Church |
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Page 555 - HIGHER, higher will we climb Up the mount of glory, That our names may live through time In our country's story ; Happy, when her welfare calls, He who conquers, he who falls. Deeper, deeper let us toil In the mines of knowledge ; Nature's wealth and learning's spoil Win from school and college ; Delve we there for richer gems Than the stars of diadems.
Page 532 - Lord empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 569 - A shelter for the hunted head, For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds, Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.
Page 536 - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich
Page 532 - The command is not less binding now, to "honour the Lord with our substance, and with the first-fruits of all our increase.
Page 556 - Close and closer then we knit Hearts and hands together, Where our fire-side comforts sit In the wildest weather : Oh ! they wander wide, who roam, For the joys of life, from home. Nearer, dearer bands of love Draw our souls in union, To our Father's house above, To the saints' communion ; Thither every hope ascend, There may all our labours end.
Page 529 - All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
Page 549 - Resolved, That the Constitution of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest be and is hereby so amended that the direction of the said Seminary — the right to determine the number of Directors and Professors, and to appoint the same, and all the powers which have heretofore been vested in the Synods, shall be and hereby are transferred to and vested in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, provided that this direction be accepted by the Assembly.
Page 535 - Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.