The Tract Magazine and Christian MiscellanyReligious Tract Society, 1867 |
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... blessing of their stedfast adherence to duty was granted them in full measure ; and love , tried by suffering , was strong to cheer and sustain them in the life before them . Best of all , they knew that , through the grace of God ...
... blessing of their stedfast adherence to duty was granted them in full measure ; and love , tried by suffering , was strong to cheer and sustain them in the life before them . Best of all , they knew that , through the grace of God ...
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... blessing and prosperity wherever our lot is cast . One of us has gladdened a mother's anxious heart , and lighted with renewed affection the face of the son who tells her of the welcome arrival . One has sprung up in the poverty ...
... blessing and prosperity wherever our lot is cast . One of us has gladdened a mother's anxious heart , and lighted with renewed affection the face of the son who tells her of the welcome arrival . One has sprung up in the poverty ...
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... blessing on the one part , adoring gratitude and self - devotion on the other , I take my proper place , I assume my ... bless you , for in pleading for myself I plead for you and your happiness . A solemn word it was that described the ...
... blessing on the one part , adoring gratitude and self - devotion on the other , I take my proper place , I assume my ... bless you , for in pleading for myself I plead for you and your happiness . A solemn word it was that described the ...
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... blessings in the Bible we must search it . The Bible does not act as a charm , but only yields up its treasures to a diligent and devout seeker . It will leave us poor , and ignorant , and unblessed , to have it simply in our hands ...
... blessings in the Bible we must search it . The Bible does not act as a charm , but only yields up its treasures to a diligent and devout seeker . It will leave us poor , and ignorant , and unblessed , to have it simply in our hands ...
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... blessings . Is health a blessing ? The Bible bids us give heed to it . In no disparaging terms did the Saviour refer to our bodily nature . On the contrary , " he spake of the temple of his body . " He who lives virtuously and ...
... blessings . Is health a blessing ? The Bible bids us give heed to it . In no disparaging terms did the Saviour refer to our bodily nature . On the contrary , " he spake of the temple of his body . " He who lives virtuously and ...
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Page 9 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 41 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 90 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 75 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Page 51 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 188 - No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date : But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
Page 51 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 185 - Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge ? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Page 306 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 44 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.