The Sunday at Home, Volume 26Religious Tract Society, 1879 |
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... night at Cologne , an afternoon at Hanover , and a night and a day at Berlin , we reached St. Petersburg on the following Friday evening , where the first thing to be done was to get a stock of provisions , of books , and of tracts ...
... night at Cologne , an afternoon at Hanover , and a night and a day at Berlin , we reached St. Petersburg on the following Friday evening , where the first thing to be done was to get a stock of provisions , of books , and of tracts ...
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... night , " he said , in good German , thrusting his billet towards Karl . The chief of the Netlars had never been remarkable for courage , and the little he had fairly deserted him now ; he took the billet with a trembling hand , but at ...
... night , " he said , in good German , thrusting his billet towards Karl . The chief of the Netlars had never been remarkable for courage , and the little he had fairly deserted him now ; he took the billet with a trembling hand , but at ...
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... night , now lighted by a bright full moon , a man whose dusty uniform and weary step told of a long march and a tiresome day , approached the door . It was Kinart , with the unavailable billet in his band . Half bribed , half flattered ...
... night , now lighted by a bright full moon , a man whose dusty uniform and weary step told of a long march and a tiresome day , approached the door . It was Kinart , with the unavailable billet in his band . Half bribed , half flattered ...
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... night following swiftly in its track . Her little girl dragged more heavily at her hand , and the blind old man , groaning and stumbling at her side , seemed to lean more of his weight upon her shoulder . She could bear it no longer ...
... night following swiftly in its track . Her little girl dragged more heavily at her hand , and the blind old man , groaning and stumbling at her side , seemed to lean more of his weight upon her shoulder . She could bear it no longer ...
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... night and leave him a comfortable sleeping - place in their family room , we must march very early in the morning , and I may not have time to thank you for your kindness to a poor soldier that nobody else would take in ; but that is ...
... night and leave him a comfortable sleeping - place in their family room , we must march very early in the morning , and I may not have time to thank you for your kindness to a poor soldier that nobody else would take in ; but that is ...
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Page 284 - GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright...
Page 220 - I heard the voice of Jesus say, " I am this dark world's Light ; Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, And all thy day be bright.
Page 7 - It can bring with it nothing, But he will bear us through; Who gives the lilies clothing, Will clothe his people too; Beneath the spreading heavens, No creature but is fed; And he who feeds the ravens, Will give his children bread.
Page 245 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
Page 277 - Ye looked for much, and. lo, it came to little ; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Page 227 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Page 360 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 443 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 443 - Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
Page 442 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.