Fireside Readings: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Sentences, by Various Authors. Devoted to the Cultivation of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, Around the Hearthstones of Our Happy Western HomesMennonite Publishing Company, 1881 - 111 Seiten |
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... hopes link the radiant hereafter with the joyous present . Go , little book , and sing a song of peace in many waiting breasts . University of Wooster . A. A. E. TAYLOR . FIRESIDE READINGS . OUR FELLOW - WORSHIPERS . Deem not viii.
... hopes link the radiant hereafter with the joyous present . Go , little book , and sing a song of peace in many waiting breasts . University of Wooster . A. A. E. TAYLOR . FIRESIDE READINGS . OUR FELLOW - WORSHIPERS . Deem not viii.
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... church were filled only with peace . Human nature being then as now , many dissensions early broke out . Jews , now believing , had doubts as to eating with others than Jews . Gentiles , now believing , had doubts as IO -
... church were filled only with peace . Human nature being then as now , many dissensions early broke out . Jews , now believing , had doubts as to eating with others than Jews . Gentiles , now believing , had doubts as IO -
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... peace , seek it for yourselves . At His feet who saved Saul of Tarsus , beg for mercy , and ask , " What wilt thou have me to do ? " Much is lost , but you may be saved . Lose no time : flee to the Savior . ( 2 ) This aim ennobles life ...
... peace , seek it for yourselves . At His feet who saved Saul of Tarsus , beg for mercy , and ask , " What wilt thou have me to do ? " Much is lost , but you may be saved . Lose no time : flee to the Savior . ( 2 ) This aim ennobles life ...
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... peace , and victory . You do not take a momentary look at Christ , receive pardon , and a capital of grace , which you are to improve and economize ; but you are put in con- nection with an inexhaustible reservoir of all you need , and ...
... peace , and victory . You do not take a momentary look at Christ , receive pardon , and a capital of grace , which you are to improve and economize ; but you are put in con- nection with an inexhaustible reservoir of all you need , and ...
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... peace to nations . A. CLEVELAND COXE . Bishop of Western New York , Buffalo , N. Y. EVERY girl should be thoroughly educated for self- support ; trained in some trade or profession , some special work by which she could make an honest ...
... peace to nations . A. CLEVELAND COXE . Bishop of Western New York , Buffalo , N. Y. EVERY girl should be thoroughly educated for self- support ; trained in some trade or profession , some special work by which she could make an honest ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acts angels apostolic success asked beauty better country Bible blessed called character CHARLES CHARLES CULLIS CHARLES F chief end Christian Church conscience Croesus culture death divine duty earth earthly Elkhart enjoyment esteem eternal evil faith father forever give glory God's gold grace habits happiness hath heart heaven heavenly Herbert Spencer highest holy honor human ical immortal influence Jesus Christ knowledge lifted light Limbus living look Lord manhood mankind ments mind moral Natural law nature ness never pass peace Plato possession praise prayer preaching present PUEBLA religion religious rest riches righteousness Sabbath Scriptures seek selfishness Septuagint shine sing soul speak spirit stars sweet teach thee things thou thought THWING tion toil true truth UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN University of Wooster unto wealth weary wisdom word worship Yemen youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Seite 55 - Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who hath his life from rumours freed; Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make...
Seite 55 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Seite 106 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Seite 55 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Seite 89 - Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and eve, and early morn, The sea's faint murmur. In the open air Our myrtles...
Seite 76 - Trample not on any ; there may be some work of grace there that thou knowest not of. The name of GOD may be written upon that soul thou treadest on ; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it ; therefore despise it not.
Seite 81 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun; which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Seite 52 - Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Seite 90 - Ah ! quiet dell ! dear Cot, and mount sublime ! I was constrained to quit you. Was it right, While my unnumbered brethren toiled and bled, That I should dream away the entrusted hours On rose-leaf beds, pampering the coward heart / With feelings all too delicate for use...