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... seemed bridged for us by sympathies which the world could not interfere with . After him came another and another , each new guest in the course of years introducing his friend , the characters of all in degree fraught with those ...
... seemed bridged for us by sympathies which the world could not interfere with . After him came another and another , each new guest in the course of years introducing his friend , the characters of all in degree fraught with those ...
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... seemed but a dim fog on the sea ! How real is eternity , when one that we have loved , and love still , is there ! One that I love is there ' — that gives our hearts a local habitation in eternity . This event tells us that we are ...
... seemed but a dim fog on the sea ! How real is eternity , when one that we have loved , and love still , is there ! One that I love is there ' — that gives our hearts a local habitation in eternity . This event tells us that we are ...
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... faithful friend , whose hope seemed imper- ishable , they told him , if he would lodge and take care of them , they would be kept , but they could not escape if they returned at night to their old neigh- THE BOY'S MEETING . 67.
... faithful friend , whose hope seemed imper- ishable , they told him , if he would lodge and take care of them , they would be kept , but they could not escape if they returned at night to their old neigh- THE BOY'S MEETING . 67.
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... seemed beyond the hope of rescue . The enemy is exceeding treacherous ; but there are unseen guards over the newly - formed subjects , who prevent and preserve them in their allegiance . The gainsayers are full of contempt and mocking ...
... seemed beyond the hope of rescue . The enemy is exceeding treacherous ; but there are unseen guards over the newly - formed subjects , who prevent and preserve them in their allegiance . The gainsayers are full of contempt and mocking ...
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... seemed to eat the soul out of the petition . Perhaps an address on some passage of Scripture diverted the mind of the leader , so that the object of the meeting seemed rather to be in- struction than petition ; and thus a multitude of ...
... seemed to eat the soul out of the petition . Perhaps an address on some passage of Scripture diverted the mind of the leader , so that the object of the meeting seemed rather to be in- struction than petition ; and thus a multitude of ...
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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