The Religious Souvenir: A Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day PresentKey, Mielke and Biddle, 1832 - Gift books |
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... Christ ; and by the extravagance of its expenditure in dress , furniture , recreations and the various depart- ments of domestic economy , it leaves but a very scanty proportion of its abundance for the claims of charity and religion ...
... Christ ; and by the extravagance of its expenditure in dress , furniture , recreations and the various depart- ments of domestic economy , it leaves but a very scanty proportion of its abundance for the claims of charity and religion ...
Page 74
... Christ ; mourning more for his sins than his sorrows ; afraid of dishonouring his profession by impatience and unbelief ; more concerned to have his crosses sanctified , than to have them removed ; turning a tranquil eye towards the ...
... Christ ; mourning more for his sins than his sorrows ; afraid of dishonouring his profession by impatience and unbelief ; more concerned to have his crosses sanctified , than to have them removed ; turning a tranquil eye towards the ...
Page 88
... Christ . I come to bless you in the name of the Lord . " The ancient patriarch , grasping my hand , gazed on me with intense earnestness . A welcome , such as words have never uttered , was written on his brow . " Thirty and two years ...
... Christ . I come to bless you in the name of the Lord . " The ancient patriarch , grasping my hand , gazed on me with intense earnestness . A welcome , such as words have never uttered , was written on his brow . " Thirty and two years ...
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... Christ , whose door to eternal life gladly to die with him . ' Greatly comforted by prayer , he desired that the holy communion might be once more administered to him and his children . There was a separation around his bed . Those who ...
... Christ , whose door to eternal life gladly to die with him . ' Greatly comforted by prayer , he desired that the holy communion might be once more administered to him and his children . There was a separation around his bed . Those who ...
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... Christ died and rose again , even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him . ' Full of thought , I pursued my homeward way . Musing , I inquired , is devotion never incumbered by 104 RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR .
... Christ died and rose again , even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him . ' Full of thought , I pursued my homeward way . Musing , I inquired , is devotion never incumbered by 104 RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR .
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Page 285 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 268 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped...
Page 104 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 76 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 98 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 104 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Page 187 - Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
Page 187 - And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her : and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Page 87 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 73 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.