Early days; or, The Wesleyan scholar's guide1870 |
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... kind when we are only speaking to others with our voice , how much more careful ought we to be when we write our thoughts ; so that people far and near , now and hereafter , may read them ! What a happy world ours would be , if men had ...
... kind when we are only speaking to others with our voice , how much more careful ought we to be when we write our thoughts ; so that people far and near , now and hereafter , may read them ! What a happy world ours would be , if men had ...
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... kind parents ' wishes . Is there any- thing else to which you must listen ? Yes , you know there is conscience , that inward voice that tells you when you do right and when you do wrong ; and there is the good Spirit of God , who , for ...
... kind parents ' wishes . Is there any- thing else to which you must listen ? Yes , you know there is conscience , that inward voice that tells you when you do right and when you do wrong ; and there is the good Spirit of God , who , for ...
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... kind friends , remember the poor , the widow , and the orphan , in your prayers ; and , according to your power , help them ; and so " lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . " " Blessed , " says the Psalmist , " is he that ...
... kind friends , remember the poor , the widow , and the orphan , in your prayers ; and , according to your power , help them ; and so " lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . " " Blessed , " says the Psalmist , " is he that ...
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... kind to me since my mother's death , which took place when I was quite young . I tried to see as many workboxes as possible , and at last , after much consultation with some fellow - workmen , I settled the shape and size . I had very ...
... kind to me since my mother's death , which took place when I was quite young . I tried to see as many workboxes as possible , and at last , after much consultation with some fellow - workmen , I settled the shape and size . I had very ...
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... kind of music on their chins with their fists . Sometimes they would almost cling to the carriage- wheels in their eagerness to obtain a small coin . Poor chil- dren ! my heart was pained for them , and much did I wish that some of our ...
... kind of music on their chins with their fists . Sometimes they would almost cling to the carriage- wheels in their eagerness to obtain a small coin . Poor chil- dren ! my heart was pained for them , and much did I wish that some of our ...
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Page 137 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Page 44 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 235 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 129 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Page 44 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 107 - Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Page 179 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro ; Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know : I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Page 24 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 177 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes...
Page 3 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.