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... brethren . It has softened the bar- barism of war , made the poor rich , and the man of an humble and contrite heart highest in the estima- tion of God . Without charity , the profession of religion is vain . " God is love , " and ...
... brethren . It has softened the bar- barism of war , made the poor rich , and the man of an humble and contrite heart highest in the estima- tion of God . Without charity , the profession of religion is vain . " God is love , " and ...
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... brethren here , may be visited with many calami- ties because of their want of brotherly love . How foolish and unwise are they ! How easy is it for their Heavenly Father to make up to them what pittance they may give away in charity ...
... brethren here , may be visited with many calami- ties because of their want of brotherly love . How foolish and unwise are they ! How easy is it for their Heavenly Father to make up to them what pittance they may give away in charity ...
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... ; all are considered as brethren , without respect to their stations in this world . Stations in life that dazzle the worldly eye are , in his sight , as things of nought , and those that are contemned by the world 24 TRUE HAPPINESS FOUND.
... ; all are considered as brethren , without respect to their stations in this world . Stations in life that dazzle the worldly eye are , in his sight , as things of nought , and those that are contemned by the world 24 TRUE HAPPINESS FOUND.
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... brethren in Christ ; distance separates not the hearts of the children of God , they daily meet at the throne of their Father in heaven . The neglect of Christian parents in educating their children in the principles of Christianity ...
... brethren in Christ ; distance separates not the hearts of the children of God , they daily meet at the throne of their Father in heaven . The neglect of Christian parents in educating their children in the principles of Christianity ...
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... brethren , to do good to all . The restraints thus early put on their passions and desires , must be of the utmost impor- tance to them in their future lives ; and if the grace of God descend on their souls , how rich must their harvest ...
... brethren , to do good to all . The restraints thus early put on their passions and desires , must be of the utmost impor- tance to them in their future lives ; and if the grace of God descend on their souls , how rich must their harvest ...
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Page 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...