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... called upon , the truth of their censures . But let a remark much less pungent drop from an English pen , and one would think that the ghost of the Stamp Act , the tax on tea , and all the long horrors of a war amongst brethren , were ...
... called upon , the truth of their censures . But let a remark much less pungent drop from an English pen , and one would think that the ghost of the Stamp Act , the tax on tea , and all the long horrors of a war amongst brethren , were ...
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... called liberty of sin - liberty of forgetting God -liberty of neglecting the Saviour - liberty of slaying their own souls ; but let not the citizens be deluded by supposing that training which omits instruction in reference to God and ...
... called liberty of sin - liberty of forgetting God -liberty of neglecting the Saviour - liberty of slaying their own souls ; but let not the citizens be deluded by supposing that training which omits instruction in reference to God and ...
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... called religious tales , which might be fitly employed in petitions for the pastor , and for power to unite the heart to fear God's name . It is very painful to see the paper scarcely thrust aside to make way for the hymn , and the ...
... called religious tales , which might be fitly employed in petitions for the pastor , and for power to unite the heart to fear God's name . It is very painful to see the paper scarcely thrust aside to make way for the hymn , and the ...
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... called The Orphan's Advocate , is interesting , simple , and truth - like . They publish the age and sex of the children in one column , and the places where children are wanted in another . For example : - 66 HOMES FOR CHILDREN . " In ...
... called The Orphan's Advocate , is interesting , simple , and truth - like . They publish the age and sex of the children in one column , and the places where children are wanted in another . For example : - 66 HOMES FOR CHILDREN . " In ...
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... , is the true bragging . It tells grand tales of what it has done , and , to magnify itself , paints , magnifies , or makes the self - glorifying story rather G than do without it . The American so - called CHAPTER VIII THE CHURCHES,
... , is the true bragging . It tells grand tales of what it has done , and , to magnify itself , paints , magnifies , or makes the self - glorifying story rather G than do without it . The American so - called CHAPTER VIII THE CHURCHES,
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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