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... stand upon the threshold of another new year , watching the shadows of the old year fast disappear , should we not ask ourselves , Why has God spared us ? Death may have been really , though unconsciously , as near to us as it was to ...
... stand upon the threshold of another new year , watching the shadows of the old year fast disappear , should we not ask ourselves , Why has God spared us ? Death may have been really , though unconsciously , as near to us as it was to ...
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... stands respectably with the world ; and if one thing could be paid for by - and- by , why not another ? One has no idea ... stand . " I say , Florry , " whispered he to his favourite sister , one evening , " have you got any needful to ...
... stands respectably with the world ; and if one thing could be paid for by - and- by , why not another ? One has no idea ... stand . " I say , Florry , " whispered he to his favourite sister , one evening , " have you got any needful to ...
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... stand - still . He had fallen in with another friend . " I am glad to meet you , Greene : only , you see , rather in a hurry . " I - am " I am sorry for that . I am just going to that exhibi- tion of pictures ; and I have an extra ...
... stand - still . He had fallen in with another friend . " I am glad to meet you , Greene : only , you see , rather in a hurry . " I - am " I am sorry for that . I am just going to that exhibi- tion of pictures ; and I have an extra ...
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... stand how sweet good singing is ; and there's my poor little lass , Lucy , that was born blind ; she hears us talk about the nice things we see , but I don't believe she has the least bit of an idea how things look to us . If the one ...
... stand how sweet good singing is ; and there's my poor little lass , Lucy , that was born blind ; she hears us talk about the nice things we see , but I don't believe she has the least bit of an idea how things look to us . If the one ...
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... stand , and the unfathomable gulf which even now yawns to re- ceive you ; if the sight did not at once drive you to mad- ness , despair , and death , how would you cry for mercy and deliverance ; you would neither give sleep to your ...
... stand , and the unfathomable gulf which even now yawns to re- ceive you ; if the sight did not at once drive you to mad- ness , despair , and death , how would you cry for mercy and deliverance ; you would neither give sleep to your ...
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Page 177 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee...
Page 151 - All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Page 308 - He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who can stand before his cold ? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them : he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Page 10 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 99 - Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 40 - So I saw in my dream, that just as CHRISTIAN came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. Then was CHRISTIAN glad and lightsome, and said vith a merry heart, ' He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
Page 40 - So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. " Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said with a merry heart, He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
Page 61 - Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 192 - Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 9 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.