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... like a fire within My heart , it was denied . I prayed for power , I prayed for wealth ; Nor wealth nor power was mine— In lingering pain I prayed for health , And felt my strength decline . At the last , Wisdom spoke- " My son , 23.
... like a fire within My heart , it was denied . I prayed for power , I prayed for wealth ; Nor wealth nor power was mine— In lingering pain I prayed for health , And felt my strength decline . At the last , Wisdom spoke- " My son , 23.
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... pain ! That He should on the cross declare , That God , his God , had left him there ! But when I laid the book aside , And thoughts of sin subdued my pride , Back to my heart those sad words came-- The same , yet seemed they not the ...
... pain ! That He should on the cross declare , That God , his God , had left him there ! But when I laid the book aside , And thoughts of sin subdued my pride , Back to my heart those sad words came-- The same , yet seemed they not the ...
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... grief , and still'd its vain alarms , And baby slept . Again it weeps ; And God doth take it from the mother's arms , From present pain , and future unknown harms , And baby sleeps . LUKE XIII . 16 . " A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM 29.
... grief , and still'd its vain alarms , And baby slept . Again it weeps ; And God doth take it from the mother's arms , From present pain , and future unknown harms , And baby sleeps . LUKE XIII . 16 . " A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM 29.
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... morn , though morn brings pain ! Your lot is mine , enduring crew , And , therefore , I will learn of you : Now all my daylight hours are past , My anchor on a Rock I'll cast . I'll wait for morn - that morn , whose light 41.
... morn , though morn brings pain ! Your lot is mine , enduring crew , And , therefore , I will learn of you : Now all my daylight hours are past , My anchor on a Rock I'll cast . I'll wait for morn - that morn , whose light 41.
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... yon table spread , And , tokens of thy dying pain , The wine pour'd out , the broken bread ; Bless , bless , O Lord , thy children's prayer , That they may come and find thee there . F Lord , shall we come , come yet again ? 65.
... yon table spread , And , tokens of thy dying pain , The wine pour'd out , the broken bread ; Bless , bless , O Lord , thy children's prayer , That they may come and find thee there . F Lord , shall we come , come yet again ? 65.
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AMBASSADOR IN BONDS angel APOSTLES Art thou awful bless BREAD breath bridal city brother CALLED THEE cast child chords awaken dead dear death dread EPHESIAN SORCERERS fade faith FATHER fear forsaken friendless Go fearless God's gone HARP OF ZION heaven hither hope JERUSALEM JESUS CHRIST'S JOHN VI kindling brand KNOWEST Laboured LAD POSSESSED life's light lone quiet rill Look Lord LUKE Maida know Mary MATTHEW MENE Mercy's mmmmmmmmm MORNING STAR mother mourner NATHANAEL never yet believed night o'er pain PHILIPPIANS Poor Maida pray prayer RACHEL SAMUEL SATAN HATH BOUND Saviour seek senseless dust SHORT POEMS sight SONNETS sorrow soul speak strange and high tears There's THESSALONIANS Thine eye things thou art thou didst thou dost thou shalt thought thrall throne Thy children Thy heart thy Spirit led thy word token tomb torch that blazed TUNBRIDGE Twas UNTO WHENCE ZION SLEEPS Zion's daughter weep
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Page 8 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Page 4 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 9 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 40 - And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Page 47 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 27 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Page 13 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page 39 - But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles
Page 20 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Page 1 - ... and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.