The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 2-5Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1744 - Baptists |
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... seemed almost to impede her utterance ; and when he heard her call him her dear father , and felt how ill he had deserved such a name , he could scarcely forbear groaning aloud , in the anguish of his feelings . He forgot the key ...
... seemed almost to impede her utterance ; and when he heard her call him her dear father , and felt how ill he had deserved such a name , he could scarcely forbear groaning aloud , in the anguish of his feelings . He forgot the key ...
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... seemed made on purpose for him . He restrained his feelings sufficiently to say , " Thank you , dear , you are very much im- proved . Read something else . " She turned to the 103rd psalm . " Surely God made her choose those two ...
... seemed made on purpose for him . He restrained his feelings sufficiently to say , " Thank you , dear , you are very much im- proved . Read something else . " She turned to the 103rd psalm . " Surely God made her choose those two ...
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... horse go , and you will be sure to find him . " The man seemed to be under the same influence as his master , which accounts for his telling Caleb— “ God sent it , I believe . " THE BLIND SLAVE IN THE MINES . THE BLIND SLAVE 27.
... horse go , and you will be sure to find him . " The man seemed to be under the same influence as his master , which accounts for his telling Caleb— “ God sent it , I believe . " THE BLIND SLAVE IN THE MINES . THE BLIND SLAVE 27.
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... seemed pleased to do . I then gave some one , some two , as appeared most suitable , and they all began reading . The driver , who sat in front , and had joined the party in vain conversation , and sometimes swore an oath , took one out ...
... seemed pleased to do . I then gave some one , some two , as appeared most suitable , and they all began reading . The driver , who sat in front , and had joined the party in vain conversation , and sometimes swore an oath , took one out ...
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... seemed to have heard it for the first time in my life . His enunciation was so deliberate that his voice trembled on every syllable , and every heart in the assembly trembled in unison . His peculiar phrases had that force of ...
... seemed to have heard it for the first time in my life . His enunciation was so deliberate that his voice trembled on every syllable , and every heart in the assembly trembled in unison . His peculiar phrases had that force of ...
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Page 129 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 108 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled...
Page 92 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
Page 125 - An honest man's the noblest work of God;" And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Page 85 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 123 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 60 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Page 123 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest a.im : Perhaps " Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive
Page 121 - My loved, my honored, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah!
Page 124 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.