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... strength and beauty do they add to the sacred building ! Each one follows the other in a perfect order and an exact proportion to the part assigned to it , in supporting the entire fabric . Thus fair and glorious is the sight , when the ...
... strength and beauty do they add to the sacred building ! Each one follows the other in a perfect order and an exact proportion to the part assigned to it , in supporting the entire fabric . Thus fair and glorious is the sight , when the ...
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... strength , that he may honestly earn the hire for which he has undertaken to bear the burden and heat of the day ! Now and then he looks wistfully at the lengthening shadows , and notices how far the sun has gone down in the heavens ...
... strength , that he may honestly earn the hire for which he has undertaken to bear the burden and heat of the day ! Now and then he looks wistfully at the lengthening shadows , and notices how far the sun has gone down in the heavens ...
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... strength of man . " We all do fade as a leaf . " The freshness of youth soon passes into the maturity of manhood ; and thus , by gradual but rapid steps , the feebleness of age comes on . Thus is 66 our strength but labour and sorrow ...
... strength of man . " We all do fade as a leaf . " The freshness of youth soon passes into the maturity of manhood ; and thus , by gradual but rapid steps , the feebleness of age comes on . Thus is 66 our strength but labour and sorrow ...
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... strength is such as would have seemed incredible . " A threefold cord is not quickly broken . " The truth is thus brought before us , that union is strength . They who are weak and helpless singly , are able to produce a vast result ...
... strength is such as would have seemed incredible . " A threefold cord is not quickly broken . " The truth is thus brought before us , that union is strength . They who are weak and helpless singly , are able to produce a vast result ...
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... strength which God had given him . And , God be thanked , there is a power by which the most deeply - rooted habits may be broken . The skin of the Ethiopian may pass away , and the leopard may lose its spots . But we should learn to ...
... strength which God had given him . And , God be thanked , there is a power by which the most deeply - rooted habits may be broken . The skin of the Ethiopian may pass away , and the leopard may lose its spots . But we should learn to ...
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Page 56 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.
Page 76 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 48 - And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, "The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Page 44 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 79 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 29 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
Page 22 - Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches : He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 58 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 18 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 54 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?