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... the parish church ; he read the service with much solemnity , and , before leaving the desk , audibly joined in the hymn of which the following are the com- mencing lines : - My life , alas ! is but a span , 42 NOTICE OF THE LATE.
... the parish church ; he read the service with much solemnity , and , before leaving the desk , audibly joined in the hymn of which the following are the com- mencing lines : - My life , alas ! is but a span , 42 NOTICE OF THE LATE.
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... leave of her , for a time , I was startled at being told that she was to be sent to the infirmary on the following ... leaving her , I called upon a respect- able innkeeper in the neighbourhood , who had taken a great interest in " Old ...
... leave of her , for a time , I was startled at being told that she was to be sent to the infirmary on the following ... leaving her , I called upon a respect- able innkeeper in the neighbourhood , who had taken a great interest in " Old ...
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... leave , she held my hand more earnestly than usual , and said , " I hope I shall not die here — I would not like to die in this place . " I at once said , this is what I feared , Susan , as it is inseparable from the infirmary , and had ...
... leave , she held my hand more earnestly than usual , and said , " I hope I shall not die here — I would not like to die in this place . " I at once said , this is what I feared , Susan , as it is inseparable from the infirmary , and had ...
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... leaving , or even reading , a tract at the house they visit , but are , happily , disposed as well as qualified to reprove , exhort , instruct , and to direct the inquirer , by the " old paths , " to the Saviour . I am convinced that ...
... leaving , or even reading , a tract at the house they visit , but are , happily , disposed as well as qualified to reprove , exhort , instruct , and to direct the inquirer , by the " old paths , " to the Saviour . I am convinced that ...
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... leave the house on Sundays , to go to any place of worship . I asked her if her husband had not at one time gone with her to church . She said he had , and even talked of taking sittings in Church . I advised her , when she saw him more ...
... leave the house on Sundays , to go to any place of worship . I asked her if her husband had not at one time gone with her to church . She said he had , and even talked of taking sittings in Church . I advised her , when she saw him more ...
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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.