The Religious Souvenir: A Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day PresentKey, Mielke and Biddle, 1836 - Gift books |
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... He loved , in the hours of relaxation from graver and more solemn duties , to gather up the fragments , that nothing be lost . ' . The beautiful custom of presenting Christmas and New Years ' offerings or mementos , needed some charm.
... He loved , in the hours of relaxation from graver and more solemn duties , to gather up the fragments , that nothing be lost . ' . The beautiful custom of presenting Christmas and New Years ' offerings or mementos , needed some charm.
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... hour of meditations like these , I took down from my book - case a volume designed for the study of the evening , highly prized by the literary world for the valuable statistical and geographical information which it contains . That ...
... hour of meditations like these , I took down from my book - case a volume designed for the study of the evening , highly prized by the literary world for the valuable statistical and geographical information which it contains . That ...
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... hour so fit for tender and mournful thought . " " Surely you remember your brother , Malvina . You were five years old when he was taken from us . " " I remember him , mother , as we recall a vision- . beautiful and indistinct . Albert ...
... hour so fit for tender and mournful thought . " " Surely you remember your brother , Malvina . You were five years old when he was taken from us . " " I remember him , mother , as we recall a vision- . beautiful and indistinct . Albert ...
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... hours , and I could see that she was best pleased to meditate without interruption . One cloudless Sunday morning she , as usual , resorted thither . At parting , I recollect , she threw back her bright golden hair , and smiling , said ...
... hours , and I could see that she was best pleased to meditate without interruption . One cloudless Sunday morning she , as usual , resorted thither . At parting , I recollect , she threw back her bright golden hair , and smiling , said ...
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... hours I had prayed might be rooted in his soul , had so grown and flourished , that mine was , in comparison , but a dwarf plant , gladly drinking the dewy superflux that was shaken from its branches . His morning and nightly ...
... hours I had prayed might be rooted in his soul , had so grown and flourished , that mine was , in comparison , but a dwarf plant , gladly drinking the dewy superflux that was shaken from its branches . His morning and nightly ...
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Page 137 - I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; Because thou didst it Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Page 223 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 284 - Scripture is the only cure of woe : That field of promise, how it flings abroad Its odour o'er the Christian's thorny road ! The soul, reposing on assured relief, Feels herself happy amidst all her grief, Forgets her labour as she toils along, Weeps tears of joy, and bursts into a song.
Page 198 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Page 257 - Cannot forget thee here ; where thou hast built, For thy own glory, in the wilderness ! Me didst thou constitute a priest of thine, In such a temple as we now behold Reared for thy presence ; therefore am I bound To worship, here and everywhere...
Page 256 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 96 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 54 - Oh ! the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and goodness of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! One more kiss, dear Malvina.
Page 168 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 194 - Verily I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.