Friends' Miscellany, Volume 4John Comly, Isaac Comly editors, 1833 |
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... sitting some time in silence , she stood up and said , " Friends , I perceive the living amongst you , are scarcely able to bury the dead . And this is the reason , some are so exercised . " She further said , " Be not discou- raged ...
... sitting some time in silence , she stood up and said , " Friends , I perceive the living amongst you , are scarcely able to bury the dead . And this is the reason , some are so exercised . " She further said , " Be not discou- raged ...
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... sit with his Friends , in their silent meetings ; and to spend much of his time in reading the holy Scriptures , which , in his estimation , contain a divine treasure surpassing all other writings whatsoever . Account of the Religious ...
... sit with his Friends , in their silent meetings ; and to spend much of his time in reading the holy Scriptures , which , in his estimation , contain a divine treasure surpassing all other writings whatsoever . Account of the Religious ...
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... sit down in companies on the grass : then he called on the disciples , and they gave all up to him that they had : then he took and broke it and blessed it , and gave it to the disciples . After all this was done , he commanded them to ...
... sit down in companies on the grass : then he called on the disciples , and they gave all up to him that they had : then he took and broke it and blessed it , and gave it to the disciples . After all this was done , he commanded them to ...
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... sit soberly . " He also expressed much satisfaction with the kindnesses received from his friends . To his sister - in - law , who attended him during his illness , he said , " Thou hast been exceedingly kind to me , in this time of ...
... sit soberly . " He also expressed much satisfaction with the kindnesses received from his friends . To his sister - in - law , who attended him during his illness , he said , " Thou hast been exceedingly kind to me , in this time of ...
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... sitting in meeting , he was seized with an unusual sensation in his- breast ; and stepping out , soon discovered a flow of blood from his lungs ; the discharge he sup- posed was about a pint . He soon after returned home , but from this ...
... sitting in meeting , he was seized with an unusual sensation in his- breast ; and stepping out , soon discovered a flow of blood from his lungs ; the discharge he sup- posed was about a pint . He soon after returned home , but from this ...
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Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 27 - God who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Page 209 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 60 - Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides • Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 38 - I know no man in all Arabia who can offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do you; I offer you happiness both in this life, and in that which is to come: God Almighty hath commanded me to call you unto him; who, therefore, among you will be assisting to me herein, and become my brother, and my vicegerent?
Page 215 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it...
Page 209 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it 1 wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 209 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 107 - Deut. xvi. 20, and to do to others as we would they should do to us.
Page 273 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.