Times and seasonsWilliam Mack, 1883 - 192 pages |
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... dead , and his mother profligate wretch . The LORD spare your child you , and you to your children ! May you train in His fear , and may they grow up to call you b and prove benefactors to the world ! " " CHAPTER V. CHILDREN IN HEAVEN ...
... dead , and his mother profligate wretch . The LORD spare your child you , and you to your children ! May you train in His fear , and may they grow up to call you b and prove benefactors to the world ! " " CHAPTER V. CHILDREN IN HEAVEN ...
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... " But GOD gives patience , Love learns strength , And Faith remembers promise , And Hope itself can smile at length On other hopes gone from us . ' Not that the loss is forgotten . Sometimes the dead CHILDREN IN HEAVEN . 55.
... " But GOD gives patience , Love learns strength , And Faith remembers promise , And Hope itself can smile at length On other hopes gone from us . ' Not that the loss is forgotten . Sometimes the dead CHILDREN IN HEAVEN . 55.
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... dead . Our experience ripens into that of VAUGHAN , - " They are all gone into a world of light , And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright , And my sad thoughts doth clear . " Although the death of young ...
... dead . Our experience ripens into that of VAUGHAN , - " They are all gone into a world of light , And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright , And my sad thoughts doth clear . " Although the death of young ...
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... dead children than for one living one . It is a sad sight to see those whose child- hood was carefully guarded by influences of the best kind , and who gave early promise of becoming useful and honourable members of society , grow up to ...
... dead children than for one living one . It is a sad sight to see those whose child- hood was carefully guarded by influences of the best kind , and who gave early promise of becoming useful and honourable members of society , grow up to ...
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... dead child was laid on the funeral bier , " Poor dear little MADELEINE , there thou art now , but thou shalt rise again . " MATTHEW HENRY , after he had buried a dear child , wrote in his diary , " I endeavoured when the child was put ...
... dead child was laid on the funeral bier , " Poor dear little MADELEINE , there thou art now , but thou shalt rise again . " MATTHEW HENRY , after he had buried a dear child , wrote in his diary , " I endeavoured when the child was put ...
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adversity affection beautiful blessedness blessing bright celibacy character child CHRIST Christian comfort dead dear death Divine DOUGLAS JERROLD duties dying earth earthly EDWARD IRVING endeavour eternal evil faith father fear feel friends give glory GOD's grave grief grow hand happiness hath heart heaven heavenly honour hope hour husband JEREMY TAYLOR JESUS JESUS CHRIST JOHN ANDERSON kingdom of heaven labour live look LORD marriage married MARY CARPENTER MATTHEW HENRY mind mother nature NEBUCHADNEZZAR never night NORMAN MACLEOD old age OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES pain parents perfect persons possession prayer present prosperity religion remember rest resurrection rich Sabbath says season sleep sometimes sorrow soul spirit strength success sweet teaches tender thee things THOMAS FULLER thou thought true truth unmarried unto voice WASHINGTON IRVING wealth weep wife wisdom wise woman words young youth
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Page 175 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 123 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 18 - They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 176 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 99 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 84 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 175 - Lord, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live ; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must give.
Page 88 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Page 37 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 153 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...