Improvement Era, Volume 5, Issue 1Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association., 1901 |
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... united with her in marriage . These feelings , I believe , were mutual , and Jason and she entered into an engagement to be married , but , as they were making arrangements for the solemni- zation of their nuptials , my father received ...
... united with her in marriage . These feelings , I believe , were mutual , and Jason and she entered into an engagement to be married , but , as they were making arrangements for the solemni- zation of their nuptials , my father received ...
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... united their voices in prayer and songs of praise to God . This sisterly affection increased with their years , and strengthened with the strength of their minds . The pathway of their lives was never clouded with a gloomy shadow until ...
... united their voices in prayer and songs of praise to God . This sisterly affection increased with their years , and strengthened with the strength of their minds . The pathway of their lives was never clouded with a gloomy shadow until ...
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... United States , east and west , north and south . Her name is a household word among the Saints , and her teaching and example are indelibly engraved upon their hearts and memories . Since the April conference , 1888 , she presided over ...
... United States , east and west , north and south . Her name is a household word among the Saints , and her teaching and example are indelibly engraved upon their hearts and memories . Since the April conference , 1888 , she presided over ...
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... United States , by President Harrison . This appointment came to him in recognition of his efforts to better the civil service , both of the state and national government , by making certain offices a matter of qualification rather than ...
... United States , by President Harrison . This appointment came to him in recognition of his efforts to better the civil service , both of the state and national government , by making certain offices a matter of qualification rather than ...
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... United States and England are the only two countries in which railroads are not more or less under the control or management of the national government . In France , by an agreement in 1883 , six large private railroads had their rights ...
... United States and England are the only two countries in which railroads are not more or less under the control or management of the national government . In France , by an agreement in 1883 , six large private railroads had their rights ...
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Page 41 - But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 19 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt!
Page 18 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death...
Page 35 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 19 - But human creatures' lives! Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,— Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. "But why do I talk of Death? That...
Page 19 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich !She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Page 64 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 124 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 123 - Deliver the poor and needy : rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Page 19 - Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.