The Christian Parlor Magazine: 1844-1845, Volume 1J. H. Pratt & Company, 1844 - American literature |
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... felt . At the other extreme lie the perishable paragraphs of the hour , too much busied with fact to discuss principle , and too little careful of moral tendency to sift materials . Intermediately there have arisen ephemeral pe ...
... felt . At the other extreme lie the perishable paragraphs of the hour , too much busied with fact to discuss principle , and too little careful of moral tendency to sift materials . Intermediately there have arisen ephemeral pe ...
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... felt . Here is no song or dance - no voice of mirth or revelry . It is the chamber of death . They feel that there is something more than a monarch's power or dignity . The reverend locks , the sightless eyes of one who had seen almost ...
... felt . Here is no song or dance - no voice of mirth or revelry . It is the chamber of death . They feel that there is something more than a monarch's power or dignity . The reverend locks , the sightless eyes of one who had seen almost ...
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... felt That Hand was merciful , which still'd so soon The storm of wild emotion , and drew back The bitter waters from the human heart , Lest it should drop its burdens ere the time , And sink , in sad despair . But yet , how sad Is death ...
... felt That Hand was merciful , which still'd so soon The storm of wild emotion , and drew back The bitter waters from the human heart , Lest it should drop its burdens ere the time , And sink , in sad despair . But yet , how sad Is death ...
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... felt all over the globe , and to the last day of time . If the child shall be very much what the parent under God makes it , who can estimate the parent's responsibility ? or who estimate the parent's reward , if he sends forth from his ...
... felt all over the globe , and to the last day of time . If the child shall be very much what the parent under God makes it , who can estimate the parent's responsibility ? or who estimate the parent's reward , if he sends forth from his ...
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... felt till one of my own children went there to live ! " It was a sweet thought . As I left the door and walked down the avenue , I looked across the water , and the fields in the freshness of opening spring were smiling in the rays of ...
... felt till one of my own children went there to live ! " It was a sweet thought . As I left the door and walked down the avenue , I looked across the water , and the fields in the freshness of opening spring were smiling in the rays of ...
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Page 152 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 213 - And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary His Mother: Behold, this Child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also ; that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Page 52 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Page 70 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 14 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 141 - And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 127 - Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 127 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 141 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 32 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.