Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... happy I went to the Sabbath school ; -you cannot think how happy ! ' As Lily said this with an expression her mother had never witnessed in her before , she did not quite understand her . She therefore said to her , " You didna use to ...
... happy I went to the Sabbath school ; -you cannot think how happy ! ' As Lily said this with an expression her mother had never witnessed in her before , she did not quite understand her . She therefore said to her , " You didna use to ...
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... happy number of them , who , in that same night , went in before the door was shut ! - " The conversation which I have just related to you , I held with her mother , on the staircase outside the house , for I was afraid to go in lest I ...
... happy number of them , who , in that same night , went in before the door was shut ! - " The conversation which I have just related to you , I held with her mother , on the staircase outside the house , for I was afraid to go in lest I ...
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... happy lot of us all , may God of his mercy grant , and to the Name that is above every name , be ascribed unutterable -- ineffable blessing and glory , for ever and ever , Amen . " The evening exercises then concluded with that ...
... happy lot of us all , may God of his mercy grant , and to the Name that is above every name , be ascribed unutterable -- ineffable blessing and glory , for ever and ever , Amen . " The evening exercises then concluded with that ...
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... happy to quote on this occasion ; because her language is that of good sense , and pious reflection , and pious experience too . She says , that " when the Jews , at the Advent of our blessed Lord , expected he should come in great pomp ...
... happy to quote on this occasion ; because her language is that of good sense , and pious reflection , and pious experience too . She says , that " when the Jews , at the Advent of our blessed Lord , expected he should come in great pomp ...
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... his eyes to heaven - be- cause , poor thing , though it knows both its owner , and its master's crib , it knows not the hand that formed it . Lily now knew her duty and happy was she , for now she at- LILY DOUGLAS . 71.
... his eyes to heaven - be- cause , poor thing , though it knows both its owner , and its master's crib , it knows not the hand that formed it . Lily now knew her duty and happy was she , for now she at- LILY DOUGLAS . 71.
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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.