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... tell in the composition of this work . In converse with such a man of steel- so pithy a nature - in whom certain phases of the Christian life were exhibited in the most finished style ( although differently gifted individuals have ...
... tell in the composition of this work . In converse with such a man of steel- so pithy a nature - in whom certain phases of the Christian life were exhibited in the most finished style ( although differently gifted individuals have ...
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... tell ; No rose e'er blossomed here on earth , That had not thorns as well . Nay , have not even the sages of the Gentile world sung to us " That every good vouchsafed to mortals is accompanied by two sorrows " ? and as for the attempt ...
... tell ; No rose e'er blossomed here on earth , That had not thorns as well . Nay , have not even the sages of the Gentile world sung to us " That every good vouchsafed to mortals is accompanied by two sorrows " ? and as for the attempt ...
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... tell us that the thistles and thorns first entered the earth with sin , and shall never be wholly extirpated save in that new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.1 No doubt this is a truth which it is very hard to confess . Admit it ...
... tell us that the thistles and thorns first entered the earth with sin , and shall never be wholly extirpated save in that new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.1 No doubt this is a truth which it is very hard to confess . Admit it ...
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... tell me , shall earth s roses always wound The hand that plucks the flowers ? THE LORD . I gave the rose at first a harmless boon , The thorns are thine alone ; But ponder well the truth they teach , and soon Their pain will all be gone ...
... tell me , shall earth s roses always wound The hand that plucks the flowers ? THE LORD . I gave the rose at first a harmless boon , The thorns are thine alone ; But ponder well the truth they teach , and soon Their pain will all be gone ...
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... Tell me , ye who pass so merci- less a judgment upon some one great transgression in a human life , have you had so little experience of the power which op portunity and an unguarded moment exercise over man ? On the other hand , who ...
... Tell me , ye who pass so merci- less a judgment upon some one great transgression in a human life , have you had so little experience of the power which op portunity and an unguarded moment exercise over man ? On the other hand , who ...
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Page 461 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 311 - What ! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 382 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 492 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground...
Page 157 - And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 110 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, Even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from theet But the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the...
Page 96 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.
Page 390 - Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? and if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 488 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 506 - Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.