The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1868 |
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... passing interest , not only from the death of many a brave and distinguished soldier , but for the illustration of human vigour triumphing , both physically and mentally , over the in- firmities of old age , given by the achievement of ...
... passing interest , not only from the death of many a brave and distinguished soldier , but for the illustration of human vigour triumphing , both physically and mentally , over the in- firmities of old age , given by the achievement of ...
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... passing along the street in the morning , you were sure to hear from the dwellings on either hand " the voice of prayer or of psalms . " The inhabitants , he tells us , possessed " a high degree of intelligence , edged with a peculiar ...
... passing along the street in the morning , you were sure to hear from the dwellings on either hand " the voice of prayer or of psalms . " The inhabitants , he tells us , possessed " a high degree of intelligence , edged with a peculiar ...
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... passes off . An ignorant bystander , hearing the fizz and splutter of the escaping steam , supposes that the engine is working to its utmost force . The mechanician knows that this is a mistake . The noise and the work done are in ...
... passes off . An ignorant bystander , hearing the fizz and splutter of the escaping steam , supposes that the engine is working to its utmost force . The mechanician knows that this is a mistake . The noise and the work done are in ...
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... passing day . Our relations to our birth- place , to our country , to our race , do not cease to be relations because they are latent , or because we forget them : nor do our relations to Eternity and to God . We did not choose , and we ...
... passing day . Our relations to our birth- place , to our country , to our race , do not cease to be relations because they are latent , or because we forget them : nor do our relations to Eternity and to God . We did not choose , and we ...
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... pass into the next world . It will have prepared us for that world . For , wherever we may be , we shall find Him , and to do His will will be at once our chief task and our supreme joy . All in that world who are of one spirit with us ...
... pass into the next world . It will have prepared us for that world . For , wherever we may be , we shall find Him , and to do His will will be at once our chief task and our supreme joy . All in that world who are of one spirit with us ...
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Page 562 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 513 - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Page 315 - By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 437 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 407 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 986 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 5 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 600 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 997 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Page 362 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.