My Earnings ; Or, The Story of Ann Ellison's LifeKnight and Son, 1859 - 172 pages |
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... faith- ful mirror of the word , I should have seen how far I was from obeying the precept , " Love your enemies , and pray , " not against , but " for them that despitefully use you . " It has been well said , that " the bee sucks honey ...
... faith- ful mirror of the word , I should have seen how far I was from obeying the precept , " Love your enemies , and pray , " not against , but " for them that despitefully use you . " It has been well said , that " the bee sucks honey ...
Page 64
... faith- ful in that which is least is faithful also in much ; and he that is unjust in the LEAST is unjust also in much . " As a matter of course , Dermott lost her place ; and when she was found out to have done wrong , it led mistress ...
... faith- ful in that which is least is faithful also in much ; and he that is unjust in the LEAST is unjust also in much . " As a matter of course , Dermott lost her place ; and when she was found out to have done wrong , it led mistress ...
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... faith which calms the troubled soul . However , it would not do to give way . I had I had my children to provide for , and I must rouse myself to get a living . From having had to be so much beside the sick bed , and having got pretty ...
... faith which calms the troubled soul . However , it would not do to give way . I had I had my children to provide for , and I must rouse myself to get a living . From having had to be so much beside the sick bed , and having got pretty ...
Page 111
... faith divine We look on things below , Honour , and gold , and sensual joy , How vain and dangerous too ! " Be Thou mine all - sufficient good , My portion and my choice ; In Thee my vast desires be filled , And all my powers rejoice ...
... faith divine We look on things below , Honour , and gold , and sensual joy , How vain and dangerous too ! " Be Thou mine all - sufficient good , My portion and my choice ; In Thee my vast desires be filled , And all my powers rejoice ...
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... faith , rather than allow the trust placed in His word to be put to shame . He often treats us as parents do their children ; even when we mistake His promise , He will at times condescend to take us at our sense of it , rather than ...
... faith , rather than allow the trust placed in His word to be put to shame . He often treats us as parents do their children ; even when we mistake His promise , He will at times condescend to take us at our sense of it , rather than ...
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Page 122 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ; he shall be free.
Page 98 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
Page 42 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Page 40 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 46 - And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Page 21 - Mine, to chide me when I rove ; Mine, to show a Saviour's love ; Mine art thou to guide my feet, Mine, to judge, condemn, acquit.
Page 101 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 126 - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.
Page 112 - My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD ; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Page 64 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.