Four Years on Wheels: Or, Life as a Presiding Elder

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Allen & Hicks, 1880 - 288 pages

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Page 126 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 48 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reVrently is laid aside, His lyart haffets' wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales" a portion with judicious care ; And, "Let us worship God!
Page 202 - He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Page 130 - Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Page 54 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 126 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Page 63 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 202 - If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth ; but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Page 48 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps " Dundee's " wild warbling measures rise. Or plaintive
Page 120 - Trust in him. at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.

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