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... child on his knee . He had presented himself at the Retreat , desolate and wretched , some months before , had gone through the cleansing and cooling process , hired himself out to labour , and brought home his THE BOYS ' MEETING . 69.
... child on his knee . He had presented himself at the Retreat , desolate and wretched , some months before , had gone through the cleansing and cooling process , hired himself out to labour , and brought home his THE BOYS ' MEETING . 69.
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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. hired himself out to labour , and brought home his earnings to pay his board . After some time , a wo- man came in search of him . He had been lost , and she , laden with a babe , and a very heavy heart , had ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. hired himself out to labour , and brought home his earnings to pay his board . After some time , a wo- man came in search of him . He had been lost , and she , laden with a babe , and a very heavy heart , had ...
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... labour , who are quite as ready to adopt a child as the wealthy . In Britain , probably , the second impediment is our remnant of feudalism - the right of primogeniture , or the law of inheritance . The " heir at law , " be he son ...
... labour , who are quite as ready to adopt a child as the wealthy . In Britain , probably , the second impediment is our remnant of feudalism - the right of primogeniture , or the law of inheritance . The " heir at law , " be he son ...
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... labours ! His stock - in - trade for this kind of use- fulness need not be brilliancy of genius , nor high attainment , but simply common sense with some power of arrangement , and a heart to love his neighbour . It is not for me to ...
... labours ! His stock - in - trade for this kind of use- fulness need not be brilliancy of genius , nor high attainment , but simply common sense with some power of arrangement , and a heart to love his neighbour . It is not for me to ...
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... labours , was an enlightening to the State , and a rich reward to the founder . The " Log College , " like its founder , has passed away , and given place to grander buildings and more dignified staffs of professors ; but the mark of ...
... labours , was an enlightening to the State , and a rich reward to the founder . The " Log College , " like its founder , has passed away , and given place to grander buildings and more dignified staffs of professors ; but the mark 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