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... look upon the inci- dent is , as a motive to go and do likewise . This , at least , is the only lesson which he at the time derived from it ; and we shall find upon a careful review , that the whole circum- stances of the case may be ...
... look upon the inci- dent is , as a motive to go and do likewise . This , at least , is the only lesson which he at the time derived from it ; and we shall find upon a careful review , that the whole circum- stances of the case may be ...
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... looks as his best earthly reward . But the poor know well the value of personal services , and can estimate , in all its extent , how much of grateful acknowledgment is due for the attention or bodily labour bestowed upon another for ...
... looks as his best earthly reward . But the poor know well the value of personal services , and can estimate , in all its extent , how much of grateful acknowledgment is due for the attention or bodily labour bestowed upon another for ...
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... look not upon these outward and transitory dis- tinctions as exempting them from the necessity of individual exertion , but rather as a means and a motive for making the blessings they have received an instrument of beneficence and ...
... look not upon these outward and transitory dis- tinctions as exempting them from the necessity of individual exertion , but rather as a means and a motive for making the blessings they have received an instrument of beneficence and ...
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... look elsewhere than to their own honest exertions for support . Where , however , a different method has been pursued , it has been attended with signal success . The principal aim of the District Visiting Society at Brighton is to call ...
... look elsewhere than to their own honest exertions for support . Where , however , a different method has been pursued , it has been attended with signal success . The principal aim of the District Visiting Society at Brighton is to call ...
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... look complacently upon the hopeful points in the character of the young man who came to him running , and asking how he might inherit eternal life ? St. Mark tells us , it was because " Jesus beholding him , loved him . " Did he give ...
... look complacently upon the hopeful points in the character of the young man who came to him running , and asking how he might inherit eternal life ? St. Mark tells us , it was because " Jesus beholding him , loved him . " Did he give ...
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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.