Mary Milton; Or, The Conquests of Grace: A Brief Account of the Life, Experience and Labors of a Humble Servant of ChristClaremont manufacturing Company, 1876 - 236 pages |
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... circumstances , must have cost a bitter struggle ; but we hear no murmur escaping from her lips . In a few days signs of returning health manifested them- selves she gained sufficient strength to arise from her bed , and measurably ...
... circumstances , must have cost a bitter struggle ; but we hear no murmur escaping from her lips . In a few days signs of returning health manifested them- selves she gained sufficient strength to arise from her bed , and measurably ...
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... manners some- what awkward and eccentric . This might have prov- ed detrimental to her subsequent usefulness but for a change in her circumstances . CHAPTER IV . INCIDENTS OF SCHOOL DAYS . W E EARLY IMPRESSIONS , ETC. 9.
... manners some- what awkward and eccentric . This might have prov- ed detrimental to her subsequent usefulness but for a change in her circumstances . CHAPTER IV . INCIDENTS OF SCHOOL DAYS . W E EARLY IMPRESSIONS , ETC. 9.
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... circumstances she would have been delighted to listen ; but music had no charms for her at that time ; she was punished and felt ashamed and disgraced . When the girls came up from supper , she overheard one say to another : " Ah ! Mary ...
... circumstances she would have been delighted to listen ; but music had no charms for her at that time ; she was punished and felt ashamed and disgraced . When the girls came up from supper , she overheard one say to another : " Ah ! Mary ...
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... circumstances being the same ? She replied , yes , better . Then , he asked , what more do you want ? This question was unanswerable : she felt indeed that she could ask no more , and submitted without another word . Vacation day came ...
... circumstances being the same ? She replied , yes , better . Then , he asked , what more do you want ? This question was unanswerable : she felt indeed that she could ask no more , and submitted without another word . Vacation day came ...
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... circumstances , preferred that she should al- ways remain at home ; feeling a deep anxiety about her during her absence . But knowing that she chose to earn her own livelihood if possible , he never ob- jected when such opportunities ...
... circumstances , preferred that she should al- ways remain at home ; feeling a deep anxiety about her during her absence . But knowing that she chose to earn her own livelihood if possible , he never ob- jected when such opportunities ...
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Page 108 - He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath One that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 107 - So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 36 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 54 - Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Page 112 - He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Page 23 - Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought ; Do I love the Lord, or no ? Am I his, or am I not ? 2 If I love, why am I thus?
Page 116 - ... If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered," &c. Observe, a sinner is not compared to a green tree, but a dry; this could not wither except it were green and a branch once withered, it is hard to make it green again, &c., but they are gathered and burned; verse 7, 8. "If ye abide in me, and my words in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you...
Page 83 - Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted, and after his long fast and conquest of evil, Behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Page 167 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world ; for if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.