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... looks . He is not able to study closely more than three hours at a time , and fre- quently not more than that out of the twenty - four hours . He prepares himself for the rostrum and pulpit with the most scrupulous and exhaustive care ...
... looks . He is not able to study closely more than three hours at a time , and fre- quently not more than that out of the twenty - four hours . He prepares himself for the rostrum and pulpit with the most scrupulous and exhaustive care ...
Page 72
... looks at this systematic and continuous regularity , and admires it , and refers it to the operation of second . causes , and argues very philosophically about the nature and fitness of things ; but piety looks through the complications ...
... looks at this systematic and continuous regularity , and admires it , and refers it to the operation of second . causes , and argues very philosophically about the nature and fitness of things ; but piety looks through the complications ...
Page 82
... look at the sun , and to bask in the blaze of his enlivening beams . The very same hand which launched yon orb upon his ocean of light , and bade him shine upon the evil and upon the good , has sent this orb into the world , and has ...
... look at the sun , and to bask in the blaze of his enlivening beams . The very same hand which launched yon orb upon his ocean of light , and bade him shine upon the evil and upon the good , has sent this orb into the world , and has ...
Page 87
... look at him , there is a shade of sadness upon his coun- tenance ; but you gaze awhile , and you see that sadness chased away by a smile . What has wrought the change ? What ? Why , a ministering angel whispered to him : " Leave thy ...
... look at him , there is a shade of sadness upon his coun- tenance ; but you gaze awhile , and you see that sadness chased away by a smile . What has wrought the change ? What ? Why , a ministering angel whispered to him : " Leave thy ...
Page 89
... looks harsh and repulsive outside , you have entertained angels unawares , you will find after it has gone away . Oh ! we learn many lessons when the head is low , that we do not learn in the heyday of pros- perity and blessing . Just ...
... looks harsh and repulsive outside , you have entertained angels unawares , you will find after it has gone away . Oh ! we learn many lessons when the head is low , that we do not learn in the heyday of pros- perity and blessing . Just ...
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Page 85 - Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 250 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 221 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Page 259 - O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Page 162 - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 244 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 257 - I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews...
Page 250 - Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more...
Page 341 - ... it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice.
Page 304 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.