The Little gleaner, Volumes 15-16Septimus Sears 1854 |
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... Christ suffered ? These light afflictions of mine , which are but for a moment , they are not worth mentioning when I think of the glory that is laid up in store for those who love God . What should I do without a precious Christ ? Oh ...
... Christ suffered ? These light afflictions of mine , which are but for a moment , they are not worth mentioning when I think of the glory that is laid up in store for those who love God . What should I do without a precious Christ ? Oh ...
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... Christian Times . [ This was , indeed , a great " transformation scene ; " would that it were enacted in thousands of drunkards ' homes ! Dear children , shrink from strong drink and tobacco , and ever bear in mind that the new birth is ...
... Christian Times . [ This was , indeed , a great " transformation scene ; " would that it were enacted in thousands of drunkards ' homes ! Dear children , shrink from strong drink and tobacco , and ever bear in mind that the new birth is ...
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... Christian friend ( Mrs. P- ) , who has entered into that heavenly rest where sorrow and sighing are unknown , and where bereavements and unkindness from the nearest ties have no place . As I cast my eyes on the mantel - piece , they ...
... Christian friend ( Mrs. P- ) , who has entered into that heavenly rest where sorrow and sighing are unknown , and where bereavements and unkindness from the nearest ties have no place . As I cast my eyes on the mantel - piece , they ...
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... Christian , and an admonition to the young , may , with God's blessing , be made instructive to all ; and on these grounds we offer the details of her event- ful life , and its peaceful ( though sad ) termination . The bread cast upon ...
... Christian , and an admonition to the young , may , with God's blessing , be made instructive to all ; and on these grounds we offer the details of her event- ful life , and its peaceful ( though sad ) termination . The bread cast upon ...
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... Christian profession to the hour of her happy de- parture to bliss and glory . Her sole care was the education of Mary , the subject of our memoir , who always accompanied her parent to the above place of worship . at After a time ...
... Christian profession to the hour of her happy de- parture to bliss and glory . Her sole care was the education of Mary , the subject of our memoir , who always accompanied her parent to the above place of worship . at After a time ...
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Page 94 - 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 290 - GUIDE me, O Thou Great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land ; I am weak, but Thou art mighty ; Hold me with Thy powerful hand ; Bread of Heaven ! Feed me till I want no more.
Page 112 - And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid ; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
Page 128 - What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all chapter 3: 9 5 under sin, "as it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one; " there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 215 - As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it. and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 117 - And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said ; but him they saw not.
Page 94 - PAGAN has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 115 - And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Page 301 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 111 - Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria : he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.