The Christian Teacher, Volume 1Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1835 - England |
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... friends , but that they are the friends of human kind . He loves nature , not only because he discerns , with all the intenseness of keen perception , the excessive loveliness of her fruitful vallies , the awful magnificence of her ...
... friends , but that they are the friends of human kind . He loves nature , not only because he discerns , with all the intenseness of keen perception , the excessive loveliness of her fruitful vallies , the awful magnificence of her ...
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... friends of re form , and in their hearts really are so , but tremble to wield the principle they have adopted , alarmed for the possible consequences , as though the application of God's truth could bring ruin on God's world . These are ...
... friends of re form , and in their hearts really are so , but tremble to wield the principle they have adopted , alarmed for the possible consequences , as though the application of God's truth could bring ruin on God's world . These are ...
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... friends who do not take in any of the existing religious periodicals - there are many who are able , and doubtless willing too- to one , which , in whatever else it may fail , will speak the truth in love . ' The Editor thinks it due to ...
... friends who do not take in any of the existing religious periodicals - there are many who are able , and doubtless willing too- to one , which , in whatever else it may fail , will speak the truth in love . ' The Editor thinks it due to ...
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... friends , to beware of this common error . Do not dishonor your high calling by supposing it to require little force of thought and feeling . The poor are generally ignorant , but in some respects they are better critics than the rich ...
... friends , to beware of this common error . Do not dishonor your high calling by supposing it to require little force of thought and feeling . The poor are generally ignorant , but in some respects they are better critics than the rich ...
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... friends , a sign of this new move- ment , an earnest of this grand and holy revolution . I see in it a recognition ... friends , I cannot fear that you will be abandoned . Christian love , I trust , has called you to this work , and will ...
... friends , a sign of this new move- ment , an earnest of this grand and holy revolution . I see in it a recognition ... friends , I cannot fear that you will be abandoned . Christian love , I trust , has called you to this work , and will ...
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Page 24 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 481 - When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 159 - Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground. His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 195 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 282 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 488 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Page 101 - And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Page 159 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 488 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Page 432 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her waggoner, a small...