Three Messages: A Christmas Message ; a New Year's Message ; a Message for Every Day |
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Ahab allegory angel's song angels antagonism apostle artist Luke babe beauty Benhadad Bethlehem canvas capital punishment CATHERINE GANSEVOORT LANSING child is born Christ Jesus Christian conse devout Divine Providence earth faculties father fearful fice Foundations BY VICTOR GANSEVOORT LANSING granddaughter GANSEVOORT-LANSING COLLECTION given glory God's gone heart heaven Honorable Abraham Lansing human idolatries intellect intelligence invisible Jesus Christ Jesus our Lord junior and widow king of Israel Lansing of Albany learnt the angel's lect Lenox and Tilden lives lower duties man's means melancholia ment mind minister mother motherhood mystery nature Nazareth ness never night ourselves Peter Gansevoort picture poetry prophet religious sermon servant was busy shepherds sinner slips society soul spiritual stretch their roots sure that love testament of CATHERINE thing Thou shalt love thy servant Tilden Foundations tion truth unto utterance vision vital wickedness woman wonder word Year's Message York Public Library
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Page 87 - Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man : if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
Page 63 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 19 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.
Page 15 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Page 45 - What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Page 47 - And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Page 37 - Danger. QUINCTILIAN said of some in his time that they might have become excellent scholars had they not been so persuaded of their scholarship already. Grant, most gracious God, that I may never hold so high an opinion of my own spiritual health as to prevent my being in very deed full of thy grace and fear ! SELF-DISSATISFACTION-a Spur. " DURING the nine years that I was his wife...
Page 31 - Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will to men.
Page 18 - ... terrestrial world, when the rising sun had separated the hostile mysteries of night from the friendly realities of the day. Sound and light became thus associated in my early modes of thought with the divine method of speech and communication, and this belief was strengthened by my mother, who quoted the words of St. John: "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
Page 67 - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints, amen.