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... hand , do not let us press it further than is fair . I suppose some- thing of the kind is the case with us about all very solemn things . We all know we B must die ; but a sentence of death , or IN ADVENT THE LORD'S COMING.
... hand , do not let us press it further than is fair . I suppose some- thing of the kind is the case with us about all very solemn things . We all know we B must die ; but a sentence of death , or IN ADVENT THE LORD'S COMING.
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... hand , he who has forgotten his Lord's coming , and has simply been careful about readiness for his own dismissal , will ever be too liable in the lesser thing to have neg- lected care for the greater ; and he will also be well - nigh ...
... hand , he who has forgotten his Lord's coming , and has simply been careful about readiness for his own dismissal , will ever be too liable in the lesser thing to have neg- lected care for the greater ; and he will also be well - nigh ...
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... hands , than like a photograph of the way passed over - in which inspection may detect even the minutest plant by the wayside , and the microscope may even find the nest lodged in the cleft of the rock . It must be as complete as this ...
... hands , than like a photograph of the way passed over - in which inspection may detect even the minutest plant by the wayside , and the microscope may even find the nest lodged in the cleft of the rock . It must be as complete as this ...
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... We must see things as God sees them , before God's judgment of them will cause us to lay our hand on our mouth and own Him to be right . We must look upon G ourselves divested of selfishness , upon others without all 30 IN ADVENT .
... We must see things as God sees them , before God's judgment of them will cause us to lay our hand on our mouth and own Him to be right . We must look upon G ourselves divested of selfishness , upon others without all 30 IN ADVENT .
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... hands of the Great Dispenser of all men's doom . If , as we know , in that day the first shall be last , and the last first , it is only thus that the first can subside into the last without bitter disappointment : only thus that they ...
... hands of the Great Dispenser of all men's doom . If , as we know , in that day the first shall be last , and the last first , it is only thus that the first can subside into the last without bitter disappointment : only thus that they ...
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