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... given a great number of the most promising recruits to the cause , but as supplying an instrumentality of the most important character in disseminating the principle and practice of Total Abstinence . Hitherto , in the progress of this ...
... given a great number of the most promising recruits to the cause , but as supplying an instrumentality of the most important character in disseminating the principle and practice of Total Abstinence . Hitherto , in the progress of this ...
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... given any notice of his de- parture . " The servant was immediately despatched to the lend- ing library , where the Times was procurable , and she made her way quickly back , knowing the importance of the information her mistress ...
... given any notice of his de- parture . " The servant was immediately despatched to the lend- ing library , where the Times was procurable , and she made her way quickly back , knowing the importance of the information her mistress ...
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... given vent to her embittered feelings , she descends to resume her repast , and to acquaint Mr. Hunter with the frightful loss of family property . This formed a suitable opportunity for enlarging on the unruly condition of the family ...
... given vent to her embittered feelings , she descends to resume her repast , and to acquaint Mr. Hunter with the frightful loss of family property . This formed a suitable opportunity for enlarging on the unruly condition of the family ...
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... given to speak useful words , ministering grace to the hearers ; his time was given to raise his family and benefit society . He was a very intelligent man , yet he talked and acted as a fool . He was a clever man . What was he doing ...
... given to speak useful words , ministering grace to the hearers ; his time was given to raise his family and benefit society . He was a very intelligent man , yet he talked and acted as a fool . He was a clever man . What was he doing ...
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... given to but few , and is as distinct from the poetic faculty , as the ability to relish ex- quisite music is distinct from the power of producing it . In illustration of this , he remarked " I have been told by the late Dr. Chalmers ...
... given to but few , and is as distinct from the poetic faculty , as the ability to relish ex- quisite music is distinct from the power of producing it . In illustration of this , he remarked " I have been told by the late Dr. Chalmers ...
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Page 30 - DOES the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
Page 136 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 149 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 95 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Page 30 - But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight? They will not keep you standing at that door. Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak? Of labour you shall find the sum. Will there be beds for me and all who seek? Yea, beds for all who come.
Page 75 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 165 - Now when the dead man come to life beheld His wife his wife no more, and saw the babe Hers, yet not his, upon the father's knee, And all the warmth, the peace, the happiness, And his own children tall and beautiful, And him, that other, reigning in his place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho...
Page 38 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you; therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 136 - ... and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other school-boy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump. Take it, pure as the current of your young life. Take it, and may your heart and tongue never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now! There, my dear child, put down the cup, and yield your place to this elderly gentleman, who treads so tenderly over the stones, that I suspect he is afraid of breaking them. What ! he limps by...
Page 73 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.