Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... lives to succour their fellow - creatures , and happily suc- ceeded in the attempt . But though Jeanie's husband escaped a watery grave , he had lost all his little prop- erty , and all his clothes ; and , as is the case in these sad ...
... lives to succour their fellow - creatures , and happily suc- ceeded in the attempt . But though Jeanie's husband escaped a watery grave , he had lost all his little prop- erty , and all his clothes ; and , as is the case in these sad ...
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... interest by faith in the righteous- ness and atonement of our blessed Redeemer , if we hoped either to live in comfort , or die in peace . While I felt it my duty thus to speak , thus to awaken , to arouse , and 18 LILY DOUGLAS .
... interest by faith in the righteous- ness and atonement of our blessed Redeemer , if we hoped either to live in comfort , or die in peace . While I felt it my duty thus to speak , thus to awaken , to arouse , and 18 LILY DOUGLAS .
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... live with his grandfather ; Jemmy was put apprentice to a nursery - man , where he learnt to be a gar- dener ; Bob , the little boy , was got into the charity - school , where he received an excel- lent education ; and Lily , as she was ...
... live with his grandfather ; Jemmy was put apprentice to a nursery - man , where he learnt to be a gar- dener ; Bob , the little boy , was got into the charity - school , where he received an excel- lent education ; and Lily , as she was ...
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... live again ; fade , and are again crowned with buds and boughs ; so a spring awakes even the " ashes of the urn ; " that when years and ages shall have revolved , and time shall be no longer ; then that which is there sown in corruption ...
... live again ; fade , and are again crowned with buds and boughs ; so a spring awakes even the " ashes of the urn ; " that when years and ages shall have revolved , and time shall be no longer ; then that which is there sown in corruption ...
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... live as long as I have done in the world . For , as Solomon saith , " What hath a man of all his labor and vex- ation , wherein he hath labored under the sun ? for all his days are sorrows ' - not one , but many sorrows - All his days ...
... live as long as I have done in the world . For , as Solomon saith , " What hath a man of all his labor and vex- ation , wherein he hath labored under the sun ? for all his days are sorrows ' - not one , but many sorrows - All his days ...
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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.