The way home [by M.F. Barbour].John Grieg & Son, 1856 - 301 pages |
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... remember how delighted he used to be when prepar- ing for a journey ; and on this occasion he was quite impatient to begin . " Why not pack my things now ? Why wait till three days before we go ? Why not A speak much about getting to a ...
... remember how delighted he used to be when prepar- ing for a journey ; and on this occasion he was quite impatient to begin . " Why not pack my things now ? Why wait till three days before we go ? Why not A speak much about getting to a ...
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... remember , Freddy , what prisons are in Italy , how hot and damp and dark ; think well which you would choose . " " Go to prison . " " None of us would be allowed to go with you , and you might be kept long in , and get little food ...
... remember , Freddy , what prisons are in Italy , how hot and damp and dark ; think well which you would choose . " " Go to prison . " " None of us would be allowed to go with you , and you might be kept long in , and get little food ...
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... remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom : " say to me , " To - day thou shalt be with me in paradise . Our minds , it is true , cannot admit all the consola- tion , in the form in which it is offered to us by sympa- thizing ...
... remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom : " say to me , " To - day thou shalt be with me in paradise . Our minds , it is true , cannot admit all the consola- tion , in the form in which it is offered to us by sympa- thizing ...
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... did more than promise to remember him when He should come into his kingdom . He did not leave that soul to a mere exercise of faith regarding the future , nor call on it to make a plunge in the dark at its first THE WAY HOME . 77.
... did more than promise to remember him when He should come into his kingdom . He did not leave that soul to a mere exercise of faith regarding the future , nor call on it to make a plunge in the dark at its first THE WAY HOME . 77.
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... remember ; yet we knew Who had the power to break it , and we re- joiced in many proofs that his young heart was open- ing to the rudiments of faith in God , and to the reality of the unseen Saviour . December 8th , 1849 , having heard ...
... remember ; yet we knew Who had the power to break it , and we re- joiced in many proofs that his young heart was open- ing to the rudiments of faith in God , and to the reality of the unseen Saviour . December 8th , 1849 , having heard ...
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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.