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... spirits , and who feel the home more dear when they have come to it through fall and weakness and suffering and death . Let us fix our eye on that bright end , and the interval shall dwindle or disappear . Those who go there are going ...
... spirits , and who feel the home more dear when they have come to it through fall and weakness and suffering and death . Let us fix our eye on that bright end , and the interval shall dwindle or disappear . Those who go there are going ...
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... spirit , and everything about us , at such a time . . . . What a comfort if we could only fully believe that there is One who understands all these feelings in their wanderings from blank deadness to overpowering bitterness , who knows ...
... spirit , and everything about us , at such a time . . . . What a comfort if we could only fully believe that there is One who understands all these feelings in their wanderings from blank deadness to overpowering bitterness , who knows ...
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... spirits here for ever , and prepares us when His season arrives for sharing His ascension , as we share His death . Just as we pass more in and understand the great truth about Him in His ready to understand our own . suffering , we are ...
... spirits here for ever , and prepares us when His season arrives for sharing His ascension , as we share His death . Just as we pass more in and understand the great truth about Him in His ready to understand our own . suffering , we are ...
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... spirit . He has a spiritual gloom over him , and thinks himself the unprofit- able servant . I find it very hard to deal with such cases . There is no more meeting them directly than melting an iceberg in the frozen zone . They must be ...
... spirit . He has a spiritual gloom over him , and thinks himself the unprofit- able servant . I find it very hard to deal with such cases . There is no more meeting them directly than melting an iceberg in the frozen zone . They must be ...
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... spirit , and the duty of seeking its removal , that Christian faith and hope may not be im- peded . Spiritual depression must sometimes be circumvented . read with much interest , the other day , W. C. Smith's lecture on the Literature ...
... spirit , and the duty of seeking its removal , that Christian faith and hope may not be im- peded . Spiritual depression must sometimes be circumvented . read with much interest , the other day , W. C. Smith's lecture on the Literature ...
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Page 307 - When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel.
Page 62 - DAY! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last : Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay. For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed...
Page 88 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not : behold, your GOD will come with vengeance, even GOD with a recompense ; He will come and save you.
Page 29 - ... the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills ; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 25 - Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Page 94 - And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green, And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills, And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my Bow of burning gold, Bring me my arrows of desire ; Bring me my spear : O clouds, unfold ! Bring me my Chariot of fire ! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem...