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... stand ; They are the people's colleges- The bulwarks of the land . Thus in our songs we will them praise With loud and joyous glee , And Yankee Doodle we will raise , And tell the world we're free . * ' Tis a happy theme ; like a golden ...
... stand ; They are the people's colleges- The bulwarks of the land . Thus in our songs we will them praise With loud and joyous glee , And Yankee Doodle we will raise , And tell the world we're free . * ' Tis a happy theme ; like a golden ...
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... stand , boys ! Come , join us heart and hand , boys ; Remember Washington . " He bared his noble breast , boys , To give his country rest , boys , Because we were oppress'd , boys . Then let the cause speed on . " Let the name of ...
... stand , boys ! Come , join us heart and hand , boys ; Remember Washington . " He bared his noble breast , boys , To give his country rest , boys , Because we were oppress'd , boys . Then let the cause speed on . " Let the name of ...
Page 71
... standing in the street , who would shew it him round the corner . The prudent inquirer hesitated about speaking to women in such a locality , when the policeman said , " A year since I would not have advised you , but you need not fear ...
... standing in the street , who would shew it him round the corner . The prudent inquirer hesitated about speaking to women in such a locality , when the policeman said , " A year since I would not have advised you , but you need not fear ...
Page 102
... stand- ing aloof from other denominations , and fails in the more expanded exercise of Christian love which would be called into play , if it were substituted for the cold formal exclusiveness in which the majority of the congregations ...
... stand- ing aloof from other denominations , and fails in the more expanded exercise of Christian love which would be called into play , if it were substituted for the cold formal exclusiveness in which the majority of the congregations ...
Page 105
... stand forth with courage as subjects of the Spiritual Kingdom , and as advocates to enlist others under the Lord's Banner . " We are saved by HOPE . " Well may the Church in any say so ; but how peculiarly may it be said where the land ...
... stand forth with courage as subjects of the Spiritual Kingdom , and as advocates to enlist others under the Lord's Banner . " We are saved by HOPE . " Well may the Church in any say so ; but how peculiarly may it be said where the land ...
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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