The Scottish Congregational Magazine - Vol. XXV, January to December 1876.1876 |
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... close by the quiet cloisters where the great scholar Erasmus must often have strolled and meditated , that we gained our first distant view , away to the south , of the towering mountain ranges which were attracting us onwards . A few ...
... close by the quiet cloisters where the great scholar Erasmus must often have strolled and meditated , that we gained our first distant view , away to the south , of the towering mountain ranges which were attracting us onwards . A few ...
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... close by the town , and overlooking a little lakelet and garden , a gigantic figure has been hewn out and sculptured . It represents a lion wounded to death , with a broken spear sticking in his side , endeavouring in his last gasp to ...
... close by the town , and overlooking a little lakelet and garden , a gigantic figure has been hewn out and sculptured . It represents a lion wounded to death , with a broken spear sticking in his side , endeavouring in his last gasp to ...
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... close with the members of the church in general ; but if spiritually minded yourselves , and willing to help on with the work of the church , you will fall into smaller circles within the church , drawn chiefly from your fellow ...
... close with the members of the church in general ; but if spiritually minded yourselves , and willing to help on with the work of the church , you will fall into smaller circles within the church , drawn chiefly from your fellow ...
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... close , in reviewing the efforts of more than forty years past I reach the conclusion that the success of my life - work has mainly been in connection with extensive evangelistic services in upwards of fifty different parishes . For ...
... close , in reviewing the efforts of more than forty years past I reach the conclusion that the success of my life - work has mainly been in connection with extensive evangelistic services in upwards of fifty different parishes . For ...
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... close of 1799 nearly forty catechists were travelling throughout the length and breadth of the land ; that thirty or forty thousand tracts had been distributed ; and the whole of the north of Scotland was thrown into a blaze . The ...
... close of 1799 nearly forty catechists were travelling throughout the length and breadth of the land ; that thirty or forty thousand tracts had been distributed ; and the whole of the north of Scotland was thrown into a blaze . The ...
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Page 242 - ... soon. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon...
Page 70 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 283 - Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in. the prophets : Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 244 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 257 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 371 - I have given them thy word ; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page 275 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! and ye would not...
Page 191 - I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Page 357 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 371 - I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.