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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. than do without it . The American so - called boast- ing arises from a natural sensibility to successes . It is the joy of victory , the triumph of achieved in- dependence . It has warmed the heart before it ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. than do without it . The American so - called boast- ing arises from a natural sensibility to successes . It is the joy of victory , the triumph of achieved in- dependence . It has warmed the heart before it ...
Page 102
... called into play , if it were substituted for the cold formal exclusiveness in which the majority of the congregations encase themselves . One is at a loss to explain the sectarian trammels in which Episcopacy seems in all countries ...
... called into play , if it were substituted for the cold formal exclusiveness in which the majority of the congregations encase themselves . One is at a loss to explain the sectarian trammels in which Episcopacy seems in all countries ...
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... called - had disappointed their hopes and grieved their hearts . Then they asked each other what could have been omitted in his training that could leave him a prey to evil pursuits , and suddenly they remembered that they had , in the ...
... called - had disappointed their hopes and grieved their hearts . Then they asked each other what could have been omitted in his training that could leave him a prey to evil pursuits , and suddenly they remembered that they had , in the ...
Page 119
... called , though probably it was a dream by daylight , or rather a very pregnant para- ble , comes forcibly to mind in this connexion . A man dreamed that his soul was disunited from its earthen dwelling - place , and flew boldly up to ...
... called , though probably it was a dream by daylight , or rather a very pregnant para- ble , comes forcibly to mind in this connexion . A man dreamed that his soul was disunited from its earthen dwelling - place , and flew boldly up to ...
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... called to resign to heaven , about ten years before , two lovely children , aged eight and six years , and but recently another lamb of their flock . But the more recently removed was passed by , and the name of the dear child of ten ...
... called to resign to heaven , about ten years before , two lovely children , aged eight and six years , and but recently another lamb of their flock . But the more recently removed was passed by , and the name of the dear child of ten ...
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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