The Widow Directed to the Widow's God ...R. Carter & brothers, 1858 - 205 pages |
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... father's loved and honoured name , is one of those pictures of woe , on which few can look with an unmoistened eye . Is it not strange , then , that with claims upon our sympathy , so strong and so generally acknowledged , such mourners ...
... father's loved and honoured name , is one of those pictures of woe , on which few can look with an unmoistened eye . Is it not strange , then , that with claims upon our sympathy , so strong and so generally acknowledged , such mourners ...
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... father , she has to struggle with difficulties which his sagacity and perseverance might have overcome . ” Nor is it only the want of support , afflicted woman • Dr. Thomson's Consolations for Mourners , p . 119 . you dread for yourself ...
... father , she has to struggle with difficulties which his sagacity and perseverance might have overcome . ” Nor is it only the want of support , afflicted woman • Dr. Thomson's Consolations for Mourners , p . 119 . you dread for yourself ...
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... com posure , if I could well discharge the duty I owe to their souls , and see them following their sainted parent to the skies : but oh ! the thought that my boys have · lost a father to guide them along the slippery SYMPATHY . 15.
... com posure , if I could well discharge the duty I owe to their souls , and see them following their sainted parent to the skies : but oh ! the thought that my boys have · lost a father to guide them along the slippery SYMPATHY . 15.
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John Angell James. · lost a father to guide them along the slippery paus of youth , and form their character for time and eter- nity too ; and that at a season when his instructive example , and advice was most needed ; this is the ...
John Angell James. · lost a father to guide them along the slippery paus of youth , and form their character for time and eter- nity too ; and that at a season when his instructive example , and advice was most needed ; this is the ...
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... Father ! not my will , but thine be done . " They will be like the voice of Christ , to the winds and waves of the stormy lake : or like heavenly music to the troubled mind . There is no relief but in unqualified submission , and there ...
... Father ! not my will , but thine be done . " They will be like the voice of Christ , to the winds and waves of the stormy lake : or like heavenly music to the troubled mind . There is no relief but in unqualified submission , and there ...
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Page 69 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 61 - And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 141 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance ; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her...
Page 76 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 77 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 157 - ... and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
Page 118 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 131 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 148 - Now, when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow ; and much people of the city was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Page 185 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up : while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.