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... BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES , 254 CHAPTER XXII . THE ISLANDS , 274 CHAPTER XXIII . DEAF AND BLIND , 288 CHAPTER XXIV . THE WIDOW , 301 CHAPTER XXV . VARIOUS COUNTRY DISTRICTS , 310 CHAPTER XXVI . RAILWAYS , 325 what millions of the citizens of ...
... BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES , 254 CHAPTER XXII . THE ISLANDS , 274 CHAPTER XXIII . DEAF AND BLIND , 288 CHAPTER XXIV . THE WIDOW , 301 CHAPTER XXV . VARIOUS COUNTRY DISTRICTS , 310 CHAPTER XXVI . RAILWAYS , 325 what millions of the citizens of ...
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... benevolent and philanthropic men ? Are there not the contritions , the faith , the hope , and the walk of Christian men , that unite the bravest and the best of both our countries , pro- claiming us brethren at present , and preparing ...
... benevolent and philanthropic men ? Are there not the contritions , the faith , the hope , and the walk of Christian men , that unite the bravest and the best of both our countries , pro- claiming us brethren at present , and preparing ...
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... benevolent institutions sustained by voluntary subscription , the report for 1850 shews at least nearly 11,000 dollars contribu- ted by the city , to aid in sustaining orphan houses , blind asylums , and places of reform for juvenile ...
... benevolent institutions sustained by voluntary subscription , the report for 1850 shews at least nearly 11,000 dollars contribu- ted by the city , to aid in sustaining orphan houses , blind asylums , and places of reform for juvenile ...
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... benevolence , enters a room where he is hailed by the children with loving welcomes . But especially the little girl , who is his pupil , places herself on his knee , and twines her fingers through his half hoary hair . The mother ...
... benevolence , enters a room where he is hailed by the children with loving welcomes . But especially the little girl , who is his pupil , places herself on his knee , and twines her fingers through his half hoary hair . The mother ...
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... benevolence . New York has a crowd of such persons who linger about the docks half employed , because intemperate - not to mention the newly - arrived and desolate - looking emigrants ; and is quite as able to furnish out a few " ragged ...
... benevolence . New York has a crowd of such persons who linger about the docks half employed , because intemperate - not to mention the newly - arrived and desolate - looking emigrants ; and is quite as able to furnish out a few " ragged ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open