Letters from AbroadSeeley & Company, 1878 - 77 pages |
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... took us through Poitiers and Angoulême , I was for- cibly reminded by what I saw of what I had read in the Scriptures . I saw oxen ploughing ; and I thought of Elisha ( 1 Kings xix . 19 ) who was found by Elijah ploughing with twelve ...
... took us through Poitiers and Angoulême , I was for- cibly reminded by what I saw of what I had read in the Scriptures . I saw oxen ploughing ; and I thought of Elisha ( 1 Kings xix . 19 ) who was found by Elijah ploughing with twelve ...
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... took , and how rapidly and easily he moved . I have seen others also , both men and boys , going along the roads on these elevated supports , - " seven - leagued hoots . " I feel much for the spiritual welfare of these poor shepherds ...
... took , and how rapidly and easily he moved . I have seen others also , both men and boys , going along the roads on these elevated supports , - " seven - leagued hoots . " I feel much for the spiritual welfare of these poor shepherds ...
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... vege- tation . I have also no space fully to describe a ceremony which took place here last week - that of blessing the boats . The fishermen assembled at the Cathedral , to be blessed first by seeing and hearing LETTER IV . 31.
... vege- tation . I have also no space fully to describe a ceremony which took place here last week - that of blessing the boats . The fishermen assembled at the Cathedral , to be blessed first by seeing and hearing LETTER IV . 31.
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... took some snowy mountains for clouds ; but upon a second look I soon perceived my mistake , and saw distinctly that what I took for a cloud was indeed a mountain . I need not apply this . We sometimes deem real Christians to be ...
... took some snowy mountains for clouds ; but upon a second look I soon perceived my mistake , and saw distinctly that what I took for a cloud was indeed a mountain . I need not apply this . We sometimes deem real Christians to be ...
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... took me over the various departments ; and I was taught , I hope , a lesson of thankfulness to God for my own many mercies , both temporal and spiritual . Who , I asked myself , has made me to differ from these poor afflicted people ...
... took me over the various departments ; and I was taught , I hope , a lesson of thankfulness to God for my own many mercies , both temporal and spiritual . Who , I asked myself , has made me to differ from these poor afflicted people ...
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Page 27 - For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God ; but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Page 67 - I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth ; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He, shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.
Page 25 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 77 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 67 - He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath One that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 42 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 44 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away : and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Page 18 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 44 - And, now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Page 72 - ... Almighty and most merciful Father; we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us.