| William Smith Porter - 1663 - 196 pages
...how he was, he replied — " Alas ! I have lost everything ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me ; but I thank God, my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows, than fails." A short time before his death, Mr. Walten, his colleague, having called to see him, he said — " You... | |
| 1805 - 590 pages
...asked how he did, would sometimes answer, " Alas ! I have lost every * Historical Collections, p. 183. thing ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails."* Love to his poor Indians, as well as the other branches of charity, remained unimpaired to the last.... | |
| Missions - 1801 - 530 pages
...of his fhue of health, " Alas I " I have loft every thing. My underftanding leaves me, " My memory, my utterance, fails me. But, I thank " God, my charity holds out ftill. I find that grows '' rather than fails." LETTERS ON EDUCATION. By JOHN WITHERSPOON, DD late... | |
| Missions - 1814 - 548 pages
...sometimes answer when asked how he did : " Alas L my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails nie ; my utterance fails me : but, I thank God, my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow than fail !" But, beside these more substantial expressions of his charity, he made the odours... | |
| Methodist Church - 1818 - 494 pages
...attended to with vigour and delight, he was wont to say, on being asked, how he did ? " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but 1 thank God my charity holds out still, I find that rather grows than fails." When any of his neighbours... | |
| Baptists - 1825 - 422 pages
...employment, he would sometimes answer when asked how he did ; Mas ! my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow than fail. " His charity led him also to peace. — When he heard any ministers complain, that... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1827 - 560 pages
...how he did, he replied, " I have lost every thing : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails ine, my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity...holds out still, I find that rather grows than fails." Richard Baxter declared that these words had given him inexpressible comfort, and that the account... | |
| John Wilson - Indians of North America - 1828 - 316 pages
...me, and give me leave to be gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, — my memory...out still: — I find that rather grows than fails." When speaking about the propagation of the gospel among the Indians, he remarked, " There is a cloud,... | |
| John Wilson (of Bombay.) - 1828 - 320 pages
...gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understand' ing leaves me, — my memory fails me, — my utterance...still : — I find that rather grows than fails." When speaking about the propagation of the gospel among the Indians, he remarked, " There is a cloud,... | |
| Alexander Young - Hymns - 1830 - 144 pages
...public employment, he reflected that he did good as he had opportunity. ' Alas!' said he, ' I have lost every thing. My understanding leaves me, my memory...fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still.' So great was his charity, that his salary was often distributed for the relief of his needy neighbours,... | |
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