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... side of the chancel . Mr. Punshon then mounted a desk on the other side of the chancel , gave out a hymn , and offered a brief extemporaneous prayer . A His reading was not at all impressive , and I began to wonder whether , indeed , he ...
... side of the chancel . Mr. Punshon then mounted a desk on the other side of the chancel , gave out a hymn , and offered a brief extemporaneous prayer . A His reading was not at all impressive , and I began to wonder whether , indeed , he ...
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... side , to the Morleys of that town , and since of Hull , Sir Isaac Morley being his uncle . The only child of his parents , he early displayed that wonderful memory for which he is now so remarkably distinguished , and a propensity to ...
... side , to the Morleys of that town , and since of Hull , Sir Isaac Morley being his uncle . The only child of his parents , he early displayed that wonderful memory for which he is now so remarkably distinguished , and a propensity to ...
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... side , and filled us in a moment with memories of divinest comfort or of deepest sorrow . The power of memory is lasting and is influential . A kindness has been done in secret ; but that seed , dropped into the soil of memory , has ...
... side , and filled us in a moment with memories of divinest comfort or of deepest sorrow . The power of memory is lasting and is influential . A kindness has been done in secret ; but that seed , dropped into the soil of memory , has ...
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... side , too , which it will be well for us to remember to - day . All sorrow , of course , comes originally from sin , but there is some sorrow which we inherit from no personal transgression , but which has been handed down to us , a ...
... side , too , which it will be well for us to remember to - day . All sorrow , of course , comes originally from sin , but there is some sorrow which we inherit from no personal transgression , but which has been handed down to us , a ...
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... side , they had never gazed for forty years upon one solitary blossom of the spring - time , nor had the golden grain ever once in their sight bent gracefully to the sickle of the reaper : they were fed with manna , which they knew not ...
... side , they had never gazed for forty years upon one solitary blossom of the spring - time , nor had the golden grain ever once in their sight bent gracefully to the sickle of the reaper : they were fed with manna , which they knew not ...
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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.