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... asked in a very different spirit from that of a captious objector . One or two slight sketches , drawn from real life , will better answer the inquiry than any general directions . A small school for poor girls had been recently opened ...
... asked in a very different spirit from that of a captious objector . One or two slight sketches , drawn from real life , will better answer the inquiry than any general directions . A small school for poor girls had been recently opened ...
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... asking , in general terms , for the conversion of sinners , and for the extension of God's kingdom . We all do this as a matter of course . The lan- guage forms a part of every prayer , and it is uttered by thousands every morning , who ...
... asking , in general terms , for the conversion of sinners , and for the extension of God's kingdom . We all do this as a matter of course . The lan- guage forms a part of every prayer , and it is uttered by thousands every morning , who ...
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... asking how he might inherit eternal life ? St. Mark tells us , it was because " Jesus beholding him , loved him . " Did he give proof of his power over death , by_res- toring Lazarus again to his family ? It was because " Jesus loved ...
... asking how he might inherit eternal life ? St. Mark tells us , it was because " Jesus beholding him , loved him . " Did he give proof of his power over death , by_res- toring Lazarus again to his family ? It was because " Jesus loved ...
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... asked , with less hesitation than perhaps I ever did , " What church do you usually attend ? " She stopped for a moment , laying the iron on the stand " Well , sir , it's a good while since I have been in any church . " I had been used ...
... asked , with less hesitation than perhaps I ever did , " What church do you usually attend ? " She stopped for a moment , laying the iron on the stand " Well , sir , it's a good while since I have been in any church . " I had been used ...
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... asked by the poor people , " How is it , Sir , the ladies don't visit us now as they used to ? I suppose they are got tired of us ? " I hardly know what to say . I have no idea of being able to communicate anything of much interest or ...
... asked by the poor people , " How is it , Sir , the ladies don't visit us now as they used to ? I suppose they are got tired of us ? " I hardly know what to say . I have no idea of being able to communicate anything of much interest or ...
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Page 13 - So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you ? Ye call Me, Master, and Lord ; and ye say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 45 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 132 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 234 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 14 - Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost Thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Page 94 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 46 - just live by faith;" and the loss of this life can only be by unbelief: so the " life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us,
Page 94 - The LORD liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ; And let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Page 189 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.