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... earth , Higher than earth can raise me MRS . HEMANS . Whoso is wise and will observe these things , even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord . PSALM CVII . BOSTON ; TAPPAN & DENNET , 114 Washington Street . 1843 . THE ...
... earth , Higher than earth can raise me MRS . HEMANS . Whoso is wise and will observe these things , even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord . PSALM CVII . BOSTON ; TAPPAN & DENNET , 114 Washington Street . 1843 . THE ...
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... earth . They admit no vacancy when the preacher's lips are silent , or the book is closed , because the same lessons are urged and applied by Nature and Prov- idence at every turn of life . After we have heard Him , " who spake as never ...
... earth . They admit no vacancy when the preacher's lips are silent , or the book is closed , because the same lessons are urged and applied by Nature and Prov- idence at every turn of life . After we have heard Him , " who spake as never ...
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... earth was not constructed to produce presumption and decpondency ; was not cast out unhedged as the wilderness of base passions and conduct , from which all the heirs of holiness must be separate . It is a school for heaven , where the ...
... earth was not constructed to produce presumption and decpondency ; was not cast out unhedged as the wilderness of base passions and conduct , from which all the heirs of holiness must be separate . It is a school for heaven , where the ...
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... earth ; to show to man that the best lessons are given him at the best occasions of piety ; that piety , springing up and growing on the soil of earth , is the piety of heaven , - a plant that will never die . - On this point we need to ...
... earth ; to show to man that the best lessons are given him at the best occasions of piety ; that piety , springing up and growing on the soil of earth , is the piety of heaven , - a plant that will never die . - On this point we need to ...
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... earth . We know no better illustration of the error in question , than may be found in some of our popular hymns . Even Watts , the great master of our public praise , is by no means always in keeping with that blessed book from which ...
... earth . We know no better illustration of the error in question , than may be found in some of our popular hymns . Even Watts , the great master of our public praise , is by no means always in keeping with that blessed book from which ...
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Page 104 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 13 - Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment?
Page 86 - Bless the LORD, ye his angels, That excel in strength, that do his commandments, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Page 70 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 13 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 117 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 68 - Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau : for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Page 143 - Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Page 130 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 26 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, And make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, Upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, And her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : And where the slain are, there is she.