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... young person of superior excellence , belong- ing to a highly respectable yet numerous class of society , shining by the influence of principles which all should possess , and sustaining relations such as others may equally adorn by an ...
... young person of superior excellence , belong- ing to a highly respectable yet numerous class of society , shining by the influence of principles which all should possess , and sustaining relations such as others may equally adorn by an ...
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... young can never be sufficiently estimated . There is , however , a morbid kind of religious feeling , which is always craving after excitement , and which , in the absence of any event or occasion of stirring interest , evaporates into ...
... young can never be sufficiently estimated . There is , however , a morbid kind of religious feeling , which is always craving after excitement , and which , in the absence of any event or occasion of stirring interest , evaporates into ...
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... young disciple . The example of Miss Mary Napier Lincolne , admirable as it is in this very par- ticular , will fail of its effect , if the springs of her activity , her diligence , her unwearied love of study , and her longings after ...
... young disciple . The example of Miss Mary Napier Lincolne , admirable as it is in this very par- ticular , will fail of its effect , if the springs of her activity , her diligence , her unwearied love of study , and her longings after ...
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... young lady , who feels conscious that her religion is of puny growth and fitful influence , it may be requisite , in addition to what has been said , that some hints should be sug- gested for her mental and spiritual improvement ...
... young lady , who feels conscious that her religion is of puny growth and fitful influence , it may be requisite , in addition to what has been said , that some hints should be sug- gested for her mental and spiritual improvement ...
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... young ; it is active , generous , diffusive . A trust is committed to every one , old or young , who is made a partaker of the grace of God , and that trust involves the obligation to spread the knowledge of Christ and him crucified ...
... young ; it is active , generous , diffusive . A trust is committed to every one , old or young , who is made a partaker of the grace of God , and that trust involves the obligation to spread the knowledge of Christ and him crucified ...
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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.