The Widow Directed to the Widow's God ...R. Carter & brothers, 1858 - 205 pages |
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... Lord ; a voice which speaks to her case alone ; a strain of consolation which , in its descriptions and condo- lence , is appropriate , and exclusively so , to her . As it is the peculiarity of our sorrows which often gives them their ...
... Lord ; a voice which speaks to her case alone ; a strain of consolation which , in its descriptions and condo- lence , is appropriate , and exclusively so , to her . As it is the peculiarity of our sorrows which often gives them their ...
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... Lord has afflicted me . " This little volume , at any rate , comes to you as a comforter and a counsellor . One individual has thought upon you ; and as a minister of him , who wept at the grave of Lazarus , and who restored to the ...
... Lord has afflicted me . " This little volume , at any rate , comes to you as a comforter and a counsellor . One individual has thought upon you ; and as a minister of him , who wept at the grave of Lazarus , and who restored to the ...
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... Lord , he " held his peace . " It was not the silence of stupor , or of stubbornness , but of submission . How striking is the commendation passed upon Job , when it is said , in reference to his behavior under his complicated losses ...
... Lord , he " held his peace . " It was not the silence of stupor , or of stubbornness , but of submission . How striking is the commendation passed upon Job , when it is said , in reference to his behavior under his complicated losses ...
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... Lord's doing , who has a right to do as he pleases , and who is at the same time too wise to mistake , and too benevolent to put me to unnecessary pain , I endeavor to bow down tc his will . " Such is submission ; but how difficult ...
... Lord's doing , who has a right to do as he pleases , and who is at the same time too wise to mistake , and too benevolent to put me to unnecessary pain , I endeavor to bow down tc his will . " Such is submission ; but how difficult ...
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... Lord my best desires fulfil , And help me to resign , Life , health , and husband , to thy will , And make Thy pleasure mine . In bringing you and others to this state of mind , God employs motives ; he places certain truths and ...
... Lord my best desires fulfil , And help me to resign , Life , health , and husband , to thy will , And make Thy pleasure mine . In bringing you and others to this state of mind , God employs motives ; he places certain truths and ...
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Page 61 - And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 106 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 183 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 69 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 141 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance ; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her...
Page 77 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 76 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 118 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 74 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 131 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.