Romance without fiction: or, Sketches from the portfolio of an old missionaryPublished for the author at the Wesleyan Conference Office, 2, Castle Street, City Road; and at the Wesleyan Mission House, Bishopsgate Street Within, 1872 - 538 pages |
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... grace and salva- tion from this small beginning in Antigua . He tries the faith of these simple - hearted supplicants for a long season ; then He sends them the help they pray for . And He sends it in a way that no human wisdom could ...
... grace and salva- tion from this small beginning in Antigua . He tries the faith of these simple - hearted supplicants for a long season ; then He sends them the help they pray for . And He sends it in a way that no human wisdom could ...
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... grace , for the work that lies before him in the service of his Divine Master . It soon becomes manifest to him that , in accepting the Government appoint- ment that was offered to him , he has been guided by a wisdom higher than his ...
... grace , for the work that lies before him in the service of his Divine Master . It soon becomes manifest to him that , in accepting the Government appoint- ment that was offered to him , he has been guided by a wisdom higher than his ...
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... grace be any proof , we may conclude they are in earnest . Some of them come three or four miles after the labours of the day , that they may be present at eight o'clock to hear the word ; and on Sundays many come nine or ten miles ...
... grace be any proof , we may conclude they are in earnest . Some of them come three or four miles after the labours of the day , that they may be present at eight o'clock to hear the word ; and on Sundays many come nine or ten miles ...
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... grace . A chapel has been erected in the principal town of the island , in which a large number of all classes in the community assemble every Sabbath to worship God and hear the truth as it is in Jesus . The societies , that numbered ...
... grace . A chapel has been erected in the principal town of the island , in which a large number of all classes in the community assemble every Sabbath to worship God and hear the truth as it is in Jesus . The societies , that numbered ...
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... grace with prayer that He would send them the help they cannot obtain from man ; they see clearly the hand of the Lord in all that has befallen them . In answer to the prayers of the earnest , simple people in Antigua , He has ...
... grace with prayer that He would send them the help they cannot obtain from man ; they see clearly the hand of the Lord in all that has befallen them . In answer to the prayers of the earnest , simple people in Antigua , He has ...
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Page 293 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Page 441 - Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 137 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 77 - Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 214 - Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly.. While the nearer waters roll While the tempest still is high; Hide me, O my Saviour hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.
Page 265 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast...
Page 393 - For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 372 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 412 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 235 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.