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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... living , perchance of many among the dead . Such heavenly deeds have been constantly repeated ever since ; and so will they be till this desolating war has ended . England's maiden no longer stands alone : nor need we cross the sea to ...
... living , perchance of many among the dead . Such heavenly deeds have been constantly repeated ever since ; and so will they be till this desolating war has ended . England's maiden no longer stands alone : nor need we cross the sea to ...
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... living , thou wouldst be dead . " Pardon all but the words . We would not blot out the record of our fa- thers ' fortitude ; we have gained too much from it . Let us write the record of our own for the coming generations to read with ...
... living , thou wouldst be dead . " Pardon all but the words . We would not blot out the record of our fa- thers ' fortitude ; we have gained too much from it . Let us write the record of our own for the coming generations to read with ...
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... living and mourn him dead . But if he was strict when discoursing upon duty , it was because necessity was laid upon him . It was the strictness of the good lawyer , who tells his client what can be done in the courts and what cannot ...
... living and mourn him dead . But if he was strict when discoursing upon duty , it was because necessity was laid upon him . It was the strictness of the good lawyer , who tells his client what can be done in the courts and what cannot ...
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... living interest in living things , a ready wit and humor , the resources of a long and wide experience , the exhaustless riches of the gospel of Christ . His temperament was eminently social . If he received guests readily , he became a ...
... living interest in living things , a ready wit and humor , the resources of a long and wide experience , the exhaustless riches of the gospel of Christ . His temperament was eminently social . If he received guests readily , he became a ...
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... living out in the world where they live ; and thus he kept his heart young to the end . His mind was clear and vigorous . At our ministerial gatherings he was at once the final judge , and the shrewdest and fairest critic of all . It ...
... living out in the world where they live ; and thus he kept his heart young to the end . His mind was clear and vigorous . At our ministerial gatherings he was at once the final judge , and the shrewdest and fairest critic of all . It ...
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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.