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... painful task of affection , to mark the power and the progress of Divine grace , in renewing and sanctifying the soul , in sustaining the spirit through protracted suffering , and in upholding the failing heart in the hour of departure ...
... painful task of affection , to mark the power and the progress of Divine grace , in renewing and sanctifying the soul , in sustaining the spirit through protracted suffering , and in upholding the failing heart in the hour of departure ...
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... painful struggle within . On her return home , Mary under- took the tuition of the younger branches of the family ; an office , into the responsibility of which she fully entered . She writes , " Jan. 26th , 1835. To - day I enter on an ...
... painful struggle within . On her return home , Mary under- took the tuition of the younger branches of the family ; an office , into the responsibility of which she fully entered . She writes , " Jan. 26th , 1835. To - day I enter on an ...
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... painful vacuity of feeling , and should be without a motive sufficiently powerful to rouse us to exertion . The fulfilment of all our desires , with the absence of any other object to which they could be further directed , would of ...
... painful vacuity of feeling , and should be without a motive sufficiently powerful to rouse us to exertion . The fulfilment of all our desires , with the absence of any other object to which they could be further directed , would of ...
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... pain . I should tell you that when our dear friend returned from Mr. B's , there was a marked difference in the spirituality of her mind . So great was the change , that I could not regard it but with a painful pleasure , because we are ...
... pain . I should tell you that when our dear friend returned from Mr. B's , there was a marked difference in the spirituality of her mind . So great was the change , that I could not regard it but with a painful pleasure , because we are ...
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... painful , yet with pleasing emotions . All who knew that devoted servant of God loved and esteemed him , and dear Mary made a remark something to this ef- fect ; We cannot help mourning when God is pleased to remove so exemplary a man ...
... painful , yet with pleasing emotions . All who knew that devoted servant of God loved and esteemed him , and dear Mary made a remark something to this ef- fect ; We cannot help mourning when God is pleased to remove so exemplary a man ...
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Page 43 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 22 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 35 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 41 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here : that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor : This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 144 - WHEN I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Page 61 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Page 114 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 50 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 41 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; tnat but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.