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... bright Chris- tian faith . He believes it a duty to connect the most cheering thoughts , with all these various and dread- ed experiences of change . He does not think so , through any forgetfulness of the bitterness of the trial often ...
... bright Chris- tian faith . He believes it a duty to connect the most cheering thoughts , with all these various and dread- ed experiences of change . He does not think so , through any forgetfulness of the bitterness of the trial often ...
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... bright and beautiful results , as they unfold themselves in any deep experience in life . The Bow is spanning every cloud . Let us always lift our eyes to rejoice in that sign of Promise . · Of course there cannot be any precise ...
... bright and beautiful results , as they unfold themselves in any deep experience in life . The Bow is spanning every cloud . Let us always lift our eyes to rejoice in that sign of Promise . · Of course there cannot be any precise ...
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... of every purer feeling pertaining to present being ; in this gift of new strength to sympathy , of new power to love ; in this glorifying of all bright affections by the outpouring of divine strength 2 * GETHSEMANE . 17.
... of every purer feeling pertaining to present being ; in this gift of new strength to sympathy , of new power to love ; in this glorifying of all bright affections by the outpouring of divine strength 2 * GETHSEMANE . 17.
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Fifteen Discourses George Ware Briggs. of all bright affections by the outpouring of divine strength upon the human heart , in these things the great idea of the apostle's word is revealed . When the countenance is not only eloquent with ...
Fifteen Discourses George Ware Briggs. of all bright affections by the outpouring of divine strength upon the human heart , in these things the great idea of the apostle's word is revealed . When the countenance is not only eloquent with ...
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... bright manifestation of a most attract- ive feature of the Christian life . And surely it must be remembered as abounding in instructions of unspeakable consequence to the human soul . He would be no example for humanity , in whose ...
... bright manifestation of a most attract- ive feature of the Christian life . And surely it must be remembered as abounding in instructions of unspeakable consequence to the human soul . He would be no example for humanity , in whose ...
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Page 17 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Page 204 - One family we dwell in him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death.
Page 48 - When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone, of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
Page 52 - In these lay a [great] multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered [waiting for the moving of the water]. 4 [For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water...
Page 40 - He came sweet influence to impart, A gracious, willing Guest, While He can find one humble heart, Wherein to rest.
Page 38 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 84 - I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 192 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to my God and your God.
Page 151 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye fv shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 172 - In every stream his bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth; In every breeze his spirit blows, — The breath of life and health.