Mrs. Thorne's guests, or, Salt, with savour and without, by Archie Fell

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Hodder & Stoughton, 1880 - 400 pages

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Page 258 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 185 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Page 395 - ... though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Page 209 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 373 - And let me feel the pressure of thy care; I know thy burden, child ; I shaped it, Poised it in Mine own hand, made no proportion In its weight to thine unaided strength; For even, as I laid it on, I said, "I shall be near, and while she leans on Me, This burden shall be Mine, not hers. So shall I keep my child within the circling arms Of mine own love.
Page 363 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

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