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... hope that it is sometimes uttered by them all ; and my object on this occasion is to rescue this glorious model of prayer from the formality and superstition which in many minds are associated with it , to explain it in as brief and ...
... hope that it is sometimes uttered by them all ; and my object on this occasion is to rescue this glorious model of prayer from the formality and superstition which in many minds are associated with it , to explain it in as brief and ...
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... hope or desire to enjoy . Nor is the " Amen " without its value ; placed at the close of this or any other prayer , it signifies the sincerity of our supplication ; the whole prayer is as it were gathered up into this one word ...
... hope or desire to enjoy . Nor is the " Amen " without its value ; placed at the close of this or any other prayer , it signifies the sincerity of our supplication ; the whole prayer is as it were gathered up into this one word ...
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... hope whatever of obtaining a farthing from your father , don't let this in the least depress you ; probably enough it is all for your good . Thrown entirely upon your own resources , knowing that only by your own hands and brains you ...
... hope whatever of obtaining a farthing from your father , don't let this in the least depress you ; probably enough it is all for your good . Thrown entirely upon your own resources , knowing that only by your own hands and brains you ...
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... , especially if he is helped by the men who have such good reason to hope that " the wing of friend- ship may never lose a feather . " You can always find plenty of people , both male and female , who THE PRODIGAL SON . 63.
... , especially if he is helped by the men who have such good reason to hope that " the wing of friend- ship may never lose a feather . " You can always find plenty of people , both male and female , who THE PRODIGAL SON . 63.
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... hope than to fear . This is one of the grand lessons taught us by the past . Heretofore there has been improvement , up to this very day - political im- provement , commercial improvement , mental improve- ment , moral improvement ...
... hope than to fear . This is one of the grand lessons taught us by the past . Heretofore there has been improvement , up to this very day - political im- provement , commercial improvement , mental improve- ment , moral improvement ...
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Page 220 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 375 - For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner ; And he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night...
Page 375 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Page 281 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 174 - They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 71 - But the Father said to his servants. Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found And they began to be merry.
Page 247 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Page 127 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 220 - How His first followers and servants sped, The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Page 141 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.