The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... kind of home influence ! 3. But Home acts powerfully upon the Sabbath School . This institution has become a most important feature in the history of the world , and is operating with vast power upon all its most precious interests ...
... kind of home influence ! 3. But Home acts powerfully upon the Sabbath School . This institution has become a most important feature in the history of the world , and is operating with vast power upon all its most precious interests ...
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... kind , resolute parental discipline . The child grew up ignorant , self - willed , vain , selfish and ungovernable . Suppose the grace of God does reach such a soul . Yet how much strength of long - indulged passion is there here , and ...
... kind , resolute parental discipline . The child grew up ignorant , self - willed , vain , selfish and ungovernable . Suppose the grace of God does reach such a soul . Yet how much strength of long - indulged passion is there here , and ...
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... kind mother in order to pacify the child , when , at that moment , there is a struggle between nature and disease , which shall have the ascendency . And if no such contest exists , such a course is in itself enough to de- range the ...
... kind mother in order to pacify the child , when , at that moment , there is a struggle between nature and disease , which shall have the ascendency . And if no such contest exists , such a course is in itself enough to de- range the ...
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... kind and judicious mother , brothers and sisters , a large acquaintance , her own chamber and her own library , So Sara thought until the third miss the expectation of a change , the preparation and arranging for ---- - - what could be ...
... kind and judicious mother , brothers and sisters , a large acquaintance , her own chamber and her own library , So Sara thought until the third miss the expectation of a change , the preparation and arranging for ---- - - what could be ...
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... kind of running con- versation with me . I had an engagement to take tea at Mr. Darling's , and wanted to be gone ; therefore , as she came in , throwing her wood upon the fire and running down cellar to skim some milk , I took my ...
... kind of running con- versation with me . I had an engagement to take tea at Mr. Darling's , and wanted to be gone ; therefore , as she came in , throwing her wood upon the fire and running down cellar to skim some milk , I took my ...
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Page 143 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 6 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 64 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 13 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
Page 189 - And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him...
Page 187 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 118 - Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude.
Page 187 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 15 - How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips ! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.