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... told their histories ; or , if the arrow of death has stricken any of them , the stroke , the manner of it , how it was borne , and how the bereaved were sus- tained under it , will all be poured out with a confid- ing certainty of your ...
... told their histories ; or , if the arrow of death has stricken any of them , the stroke , the manner of it , how it was borne , and how the bereaved were sus- tained under it , will all be poured out with a confid- ing certainty of your ...
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... told that , not only at an examination of strangers and orphans , but of their own children , the parents often exhibit weariness when the subjects of investigation are solid . It is pleasing to see severer studies diversified by moral ...
... told that , not only at an examination of strangers and orphans , but of their own children , the parents often exhibit weariness when the subjects of investigation are solid . It is pleasing to see severer studies diversified by moral ...
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... told . Its outline is this : -A boy who feared not God , nor obeyed his mother , set out to roam with others on a Sabbath afternoon , several years ago - when the spot on which we were now seated was a green field . The field was ...
... told . Its outline is this : -A boy who feared not God , nor obeyed his mother , set out to roam with others on a Sabbath afternoon , several years ago - when the spot on which we were now seated was a green field . The field was ...
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... 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.
... 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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... told her story to Mr Pease . He sent for the man , and conversed with him apart . " Are you married ? " " Yes . " " Where is your wife ? " " I don't know . " " That is strange - why did you part from her ? " " I forsook her when I ...
... told her story to Mr Pease . He sent for the man , and conversed with him apart . " Are you married ? " " Yes . " " Where is your wife ? " " I don't know . " " That is strange - why did you part from her ? " " I forsook her when I ...
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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