Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... began to talk , there was no getting away from her . She was poor in every thing but in spirit , and had a great deal more vivacity than I , though old enough to be my grandmother . She had just dined when I went in , and the meal ...
... began to talk , there was no getting away from her . She was poor in every thing but in spirit , and had a great deal more vivacity than I , though old enough to be my grandmother . She had just dined when I went in , and the meal ...
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... began to feel as she never - never had felt before . Here a little girl stood up , and repeating her selection of proofs , began to say , " Be- hold I was shapen in iniquity , and in sin did my mother conceive me . - The Lord looked ...
... began to feel as she never - never had felt before . Here a little girl stood up , and repeating her selection of proofs , began to say , " Be- hold I was shapen in iniquity , and in sin did my mother conceive me . - The Lord looked ...
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... began to revive , as she heard of these " heavenly things . " Now the doctrines she was called to prove , dropped on her heart as the dew upon the grass ; as the rain mown grass , even the small rain upon the tender herb . How did she ...
... began to revive , as she heard of these " heavenly things . " Now the doctrines she was called to prove , dropped on her heart as the dew upon the grass ; as the rain mown grass , even the small rain upon the tender herb . How did she ...
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... : I sojourn as my fathers all , And stranger am with thee . " When the prayer was concluded , which was of the same mournful character with the psalm , each Teacher began to catechise her own class . I 42 LILY DOUGLAS .
... : I sojourn as my fathers all , And stranger am with thee . " When the prayer was concluded , which was of the same mournful character with the psalm , each Teacher began to catechise her own class . I 42 LILY DOUGLAS .
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... began to catechise her own class . I walked once or twice up and down the room , musing , as I am wont , on whatever happens to be before me ; and I thought , as I looked on these interesting and unpretend- ing laborers in this humble ...
... began to catechise her own class . I walked once or twice up and down the room , musing , as I am wont , on whatever happens to be before me ; and I thought , as I looked on these interesting and unpretend- ing laborers in this humble ...
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Page 49 - But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the -ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not : Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 24 - Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 51 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 49 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 52 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 53 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 53 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 65 - 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 24 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.