The Christian Teacher, Volume 1Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1835 - England |
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enforce obedience by sanctions , which , however good to those who knew no better , are tares instead of wheat in the Christian church , and are superseded by the perfect law of Christ . Christianity stands in the New Testament - but ...
enforce obedience by sanctions , which , however good to those who knew no better , are tares instead of wheat in the Christian church , and are superseded by the perfect law of Christ . Christianity stands in the New Testament - but ...
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... better far to cleave exclusively to his example of pious devotedness to God's will , than to incur the risk of associating with the truth , the imaginings of our own hearts , or the traditions of the elders . In belief , we may err if ...
... better far to cleave exclusively to his example of pious devotedness to God's will , than to incur the risk of associating with the truth , the imaginings of our own hearts , or the traditions of the elders . In belief , we may err if ...
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... better than these high winds , that almost blow me away : for I love to make snow - balls , and to slide upon the ice , and to see Charles skaite . ' ' Yes , my dear boy , much good : the snow shelters the earth from the inclemency of ...
... better than these high winds , that almost blow me away : for I love to make snow - balls , and to slide upon the ice , and to see Charles skaite . ' ' Yes , my dear boy , much good : the snow shelters the earth from the inclemency of ...
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... better be forgotten on the Sunday . Fine a poet as he is , the sacred writers abound in passages of greater pathos and sub- limity than he or any other uninspired author ever composed . Some of these we shall have occasion to read soon ...
... better be forgotten on the Sunday . Fine a poet as he is , the sacred writers abound in passages of greater pathos and sub- limity than he or any other uninspired author ever composed . Some of these we shall have occasion to read soon ...
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... better if we had been brought up as they have been , thrown among companions such as they have had , and cut off , as perhaps they have been , from all means and opportunities of instruction . Oh ! yes ; it is their right , that in the ...
... better if we had been brought up as they have been , thrown among companions such as they have had , and cut off , as perhaps they have been , from all means and opportunities of instruction . Oh ! yes ; it is their right , that in the ...
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Page 24 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 481 - When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 159 - Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground. His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 195 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 282 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 488 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Page 101 - And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Page 159 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 488 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Page 432 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her waggoner, a small...