The way home [by M.F. Barbour].John Grieg & Son, 1856 - 301 pages |
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... Rome , —and among the Vaudois . Prepared as we might ever be for change and sorrow , who could have thought that before this little record had reached Malabar , your own home would have been darkened and left behind ; or that he who was ...
... Rome , —and among the Vaudois . Prepared as we might ever be for change and sorrow , who could have thought that before this little record had reached Malabar , your own home would have been darkened and left behind ; or that he who was ...
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... Only do Thou lend me a hand , Since Thou hast both mine eyes . When scarcely three years old , he gave a proof of how well he took up subjects of conversation among older people . " Is the Pope back to Rome 120 THE WAY HOME .
... Only do Thou lend me a hand , Since Thou hast both mine eyes . When scarcely three years old , he gave a proof of how well he took up subjects of conversation among older people . " Is the Pope back to Rome 120 THE WAY HOME .
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Margaret Fraser Barbour. older people . " Is the Pope back to Rome yet ? " " No ; why do you think about the Pope ? The Romans don't wish him back . " " But I think he will be back yet ; and when he goes he will take a whip to the Romans ...
Margaret Fraser Barbour. older people . " Is the Pope back to Rome yet ? " " No ; why do you think about the Pope ? The Romans don't wish him back . " " But I think he will be back yet ; and when he goes he will take a whip to the Romans ...
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... Rome ? I am bound for the nest where my mother is sighing , And waiting for me in our dear little home . He stopped singing- " I see how it is , I didn't think of that , it's because the priests are there that the dove won't go to Rome ...
... Rome ? I am bound for the nest where my mother is sighing , And waiting for me in our dear little home . He stopped singing- " I see how it is , I didn't think of that , it's because the priests are there that the dove won't go to Rome ...
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... Rome , Rome ! how unchanged , how unchangeable art thou . Not less so is the faith of Christ's confessors which thou hast never rooted out . At Cannes Freddy got this letter dictated by George : - " Dearest Freddy , " Come and see ...
... Rome , Rome ! how unchanged , how unchangeable art thou . Not less so is the faith of Christ's confessors which thou hast never rooted out . At Cannes Freddy got this letter dictated by George : - " Dearest Freddy , " Come and see ...
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Page 212 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 151 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 48 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 236 - He lives! — In all the past He lives ; nor, to the last, Of seeing him again will I despair; In dreams I see him now ; And, on his angel brow, I see it written, "Thou shalt see me there!
Page 49 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 119 - I think, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then.
Page 70 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 70 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...
Page 161 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 19 - I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid, My safety cometh from the Lord, who Heaven and Earth hath made.