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... Mother • • 347 · 282 Morning Devotion 283 · • • • 284 286 The Bible . . The Widow , or the Comforts of Religion amid Poverty and Wretchedness The Rev. Thomas Adam , Rector of Wintringham • 289 292 ness • · · · 295 On the effect of ...
... Mother • • 347 · 282 Morning Devotion 283 · • • • 284 286 The Bible . . The Widow , or the Comforts of Religion amid Poverty and Wretchedness The Rev. Thomas Adam , Rector of Wintringham • 289 292 ness • · · · 295 On the effect of ...
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... mother for support . The spirit of this woman was so proud that nothing would have induced her to apply for relief : she subsequently confessed that in the height of her agony she had once attempted to poison herself . Without raising ...
... mother for support . The spirit of this woman was so proud that nothing would have induced her to apply for relief : she subsequently confessed that in the height of her agony she had once attempted to poison herself . Without raising ...
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... mother of two infants , who was dying of a consumption . Her husband , a kind - hearted , but ignorant and thoughtless being , left her alone from morning till night , without any of the comforts essential to her situation , while he ...
... mother of two infants , who was dying of a consumption . Her husband , a kind - hearted , but ignorant and thoughtless being , left her alone from morning till night , without any of the comforts essential to her situation , while he ...
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... mother , in despair of doing anything herself for her child but to pray for him , has supplied , by the warmth and heartfelt interest of the prayers which she has uttered in his presence , the very means of his conversion , -so far as ...
... mother , in despair of doing anything herself for her child but to pray for him , has supplied , by the warmth and heartfelt interest of the prayers which she has uttered in his presence , the very means of his conversion , -so far as ...
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... mother , and the alleviation of her sorrows during the remainder of the days of her widowhood ? It was to the " disciple whom Jesus loved , " that he recommended her for protection , as a last token of his confidence in the strength and ...
... mother , and the alleviation of her sorrows during the remainder of the days of her widowhood ? It was to the " disciple whom Jesus loved , " that he recommended her for protection , as a last token of his confidence in the strength and ...
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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.