The way home [by M.F. Barbour].John Grieg & Son, 1856 - 301 pages |
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... keep us here or we might die . " And then , turning round , they would say , " But if we are alive , and if God does spare us , when may we pack ? On Monday , Freddy's birthday ? " They were very exact in expecting us to keep to our ...
... keep us here or we might die . " And then , turning round , they would say , " But if we are alive , and if God does spare us , when may we pack ? On Monday , Freddy's birthday ? " They were very exact in expecting us to keep to our ...
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... keep far from his heart and our own , that pride of life which by the most trifling medium is ever ready to gain an entrance . During our last week at home , friends were assem- bled with us several times , and gaily the brothers ...
... keep far from his heart and our own , that pride of life which by the most trifling medium is ever ready to gain an entrance . During our last week at home , friends were assem- bled with us several times , and gaily the brothers ...
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... keep it , are happier children than others , just as trees planted by the water grow tallest and greenest ; and so he loved that Psalm . There be stood with his rough winter coat , blue cap , and warm gaiters to cover his limb scarce ...
... keep it , are happier children than others , just as trees planted by the water grow tallest and greenest ; and so he loved that Psalm . There be stood with his rough winter coat , blue cap , and warm gaiters to cover his limb scarce ...
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... keeps , the Lord thy shade On thy right hand doth stay : The moon by night thee shall not smite , Nor yet the sun by day . The Lord shall keep thy soul ; he shall Preserve thee from all ill . Henceforth thy going out and in God keep for ...
... keeps , the Lord thy shade On thy right hand doth stay : The moon by night thee shall not smite , Nor yet the sun by day . The Lord shall keep thy soul ; he shall Preserve thee from all ill . Henceforth thy going out and in God keep for ...
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... Lord preserve us all — an awful night is this ? ” One of the women at my request took Freddy , now heavily asleep , on her knee to keep away the cold , and another kindly sat down upon my feet and limbs which 32 THE WAY HOME .
... Lord preserve us all — an awful night is this ? ” One of the women at my request took Freddy , now heavily asleep , on her knee to keep away the cold , and another kindly sat down upon my feet and limbs which 32 THE WAY HOME .
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Popular passages
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.