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Pagina 20
... present to 192,815 poor families £ 10 each on Christmas Day ; or it would , in ONE YEAR , supply each human being on the globe with a Bible ; or it would , in one year , provide 200 hospitals at £ 20,000 each ; 12,000 churches and ...
... present to 192,815 poor families £ 10 each on Christmas Day ; or it would , in ONE YEAR , supply each human being on the globe with a Bible ; or it would , in one year , provide 200 hospitals at £ 20,000 each ; 12,000 churches and ...
Pagina 22
... present certainly miserable , unsatisfied , troublesome , and discontented , for the uncertain acquisition of an honour , which nothing can secure ; and besides a thousand possibilities of miscarrying , it relies upon no greater ...
... present certainly miserable , unsatisfied , troublesome , and discontented , for the uncertain acquisition of an honour , which nothing can secure ; and besides a thousand possibilities of miscarrying , it relies upon no greater ...
Pagina 23
... present all our requests to the throne of grace , with fervent zeal and affection . Amen is a wing to our prayers ; it is the bow that shoots them up to heaven . Whether we pray ourselves , or join in prayers with others and make their ...
... present all our requests to the throne of grace , with fervent zeal and affection . Amen is a wing to our prayers ; it is the bow that shoots them up to heaven . Whether we pray ourselves , or join in prayers with others and make their ...
Pagina 31
... present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own . Past opportu- nities are gone , future are to come . may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the tasting of them too long ...
... present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own . Past opportu- nities are gone , future are to come . may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the tasting of them too long ...
Pagina 35
... present good for the future increase . A merchant suffers a large quantity of goods to go out of the kingdom to a foreign land ; but he bas his object in doing so he knows , by calculation , that he shall make so much more advantage by ...
... present good for the future increase . A merchant suffers a large quantity of goods to go out of the kingdom to a foreign land ; but he bas his object in doing so he knows , by calculation , that he shall make so much more advantage by ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A. A. Hodge angels Anon Anthony Burgess Archdeacon Hare Arminius beauty believe Bible blessed blood body C. H. Spurgeon called child Christian Church comfort conscience creatures darkness death Divine doth duty dying earth eternal evil faith Father fear feel fire flowers fruit fulness give glory God's godliness gold Gospel grace H. W. Beecher hand happy hath heart heaven holy Holy Spirit honour hope human Ibid J. H. Wilson Jehovah Jesus Christ Jews John Bate king labour light live look Lord man's ment mercy mind moral mountain nature ness never night peace perfect person prayer racter religion replied rest righteousness Saviour Scripture shine sinner sins sorrow soul speak Spirit stars sweet thee things thou thought throne tion tree true truth unto virtue Whitecross word
Populaire passages
Pagina 327 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Pagina 187 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Pagina 294 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Pagina 237 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Pagina 239 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Pagina 329 - If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me, Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Pagina 195 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Pagina 369 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Pagina 195 - And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem...
Pagina 267 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?