The Prayer-meeting AssistantA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 104 pages |
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according answer appropriate laws atonement attend become believe bestowed better Bible blessing brethren and sisters brother called cation cause CHAPTER character Christ Christian church closet Concert of Prayer confession converse converse with God desire Dispenser divine Divine Grace dreadful duty earth everything exhortation expect Father faults in Prayer favor feel Female Prayer-meetings foreign missions gained gift give God's gospel hand hear hearers heart heaven human individual influence interest labor language laws leave Lord machinery mand matter means of grace ment mercies mind minister missionaries Monthly Concert moral neglect never object offered perform piety pious portunity praise pray preaching present Presiding Member promises proper purpose reason religion religious remembrance SABBATH SCHOOLS secret social meeting social nature social prayer soul speak Spirit thanksgiving theme THINGS COMMON thou hast thought TOPICS OF PRAYER truth unto uttered wants wish worship
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Page 61 - Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink ; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac ; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Page 85 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 61 - Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink...
Page 34 - Woe is me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Page 12 - Father which is in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 14 - The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 17 - Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Page 41 - Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 35 - He that cometh unto God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him...
Page 48 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...