India's Women, Volume 14Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1894 |
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Page 53
... speak though out of sight . I should have thrown up my Visitation engagements here to come to the funeral , but that there is a Confirmation on Tuesday evening which cannot be made a day earlier , because there are some candidates ...
... speak though out of sight . I should have thrown up my Visitation engagements here to come to the funeral , but that there is a Confirmation on Tuesday evening which cannot be made a day earlier , because there are some candidates ...
Page 55
... speak to others in the words which I regard as a parting message to me . After speaking of trials and difficulties in the way of the Christian life , and especially of service she repeated , — The exhibits in the Loan Exhibition were ...
... speak to others in the words which I regard as a parting message to me . After speaking of trials and difficulties in the way of the Christian life , and especially of service she repeated , — The exhibits in the Loan Exhibition were ...
Page 56
... Speaking of her age ( seventy - two ) , and growing weakness , she said , smiling brightly , - " The soul's dark cottage , broken and decayed , Lets in new light thro ' chinks which time has made . " And then a little after she sang to ...
... Speaking of her age ( seventy - two ) , and growing weakness , she said , smiling brightly , - " The soul's dark cottage , broken and decayed , Lets in new light thro ' chinks which time has made . " And then a little after she sang to ...
Page 57
... Speaking of her early days , one of Marian Pinniger's friends said , " She was just a sunbeam . " In the Sunday - school , as a tract - distributor , dis- trict visitor , or in the home of her father or married sisters , her cheerful ...
... Speaking of her early days , one of Marian Pinniger's friends said , " She was just a sunbeam . " In the Sunday - school , as a tract - distributor , dis- trict visitor , or in the home of her father or married sisters , her cheerful ...
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... speak fluently , " she writes , " I would not have hesitated to go amongst them , but I could not send Sarah ( the Bible - woman ) . I just looked up and asked for guidance , not liking to go away and thus lose an opportunity of speaking ...
... speak fluently , " she writes , " I would not have hesitated to go amongst them , but I could not send Sarah ( the Bible - woman ) . I just looked up and asked for guidance , not liking to go away and thus lose an opportunity of speaking ...
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Page 268 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 242 - Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Page 272 - And, in like manner, what the woman is to be within her gates, as the centre of order, the balm of distress, and the mirror of beauty: that she is also to be without her gates, where order is more difficult, distress more imminent, loveliness more rare.
Page 342 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Page 223 - It is the type of an eternal truth— that the soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it; and it is only when she braces it loosely that the honour of manhood fails.
Page 547 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page vi - Soon, and for ever, We'll see as we're seen, And learn the deep meaning Of things that have been.
Page 97 - And, certain it is, that as nothing can better do it, so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting his praises, than to minister comfort to a' weary soul. And what greater measure can we have, than that we should bring joy to our brother, who, with his dreary eyes, looks to heaven and round about, and cannot find so much rest as to lay his eyelids close together; than that thy tongue should be tuned with heavenly accents, and make the weary soul...
Page 155 - And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many ; and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad ; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.
Page 445 - ... not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you ; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.