An Address Delivered on Christmas Day, at the Funeral of Rev. Benjamin Tappan: Together with a Sermon Preached the Following Sabbath, December 27, 1863Kennebec Journal, 1863 - 22 pages |
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... Cross . We cannot be too penitent . Let us be thankful that pen- itence brings so rich return , and opens the way for so great benefits . And thus as we turn unto the Lord , he shows us this tree , which bears his name , and these hints ...
... Cross . We cannot be too penitent . Let us be thankful that pen- itence brings so rich return , and opens the way for so great benefits . And thus as we turn unto the Lord , he shows us this tree , which bears his name , and these hints ...
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... cross begins to bend ! " So on the curving heavens over our darkened and stormy seas the tossed and weary mariner greets with moistened eye the harbinger of day - the Southern cross begins to bend . In the outward aspect of things among ...
... cross begins to bend ! " So on the curving heavens over our darkened and stormy seas the tossed and weary mariner greets with moistened eye the harbinger of day - the Southern cross begins to bend . In the outward aspect of things among ...
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... cross the sea to find " a noble type of good , heroic womanhood . " And is there not in these varied considerations something to make our Marah sweet ? III . But we still find reason for thanksgiving , if , finally , we turn to the ...
... cross the sea to find " a noble type of good , heroic womanhood . " And is there not in these varied considerations something to make our Marah sweet ? III . But we still find reason for thanksgiving , if , finally , we turn to the ...
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... cross towering in the midst and casting its dark shadow on the manger . Christ was born that he might die , and in his dying , for all who are found in him , he ' hath abolished death . " 66 " Abolished death ! " Then what mean this ...
... cross towering in the midst and casting its dark shadow on the manger . Christ was born that he might die , and in his dying , for all who are found in him , he ' hath abolished death . " 66 " Abolished death ! " Then what mean this ...
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... cross . The rest of heaven is for those who are wearied by their work . Hence the commission is " Go , preach . " Go , work , strive , suffer , preach , as those who are in the world upon an errand : intrusted with a business which must ...
... cross . The rest of heaven is for those who are wearied by their work . Hence the commission is " Go , preach . " Go , work , strive , suffer , preach , as those who are in the world upon an errand : intrusted with a business which must ...
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Page 9 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 18 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 13 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou...
Page 4 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Page 3 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying. What shall we drink ? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Page 5 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 5 - To me remains nor place nor time ; My country is in every clime ; I can be calm, and free from care, On any shore, since God is there.