The Silent Pastor: Or, Consolations for the SickWalker, Wise, & Company, 1864 - 183 pages |
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... Leave God to order all thy ways , - I only would be spent in pain , Therefore , O friend , I would not , if I might , Calm me , my God , and keep me calm , Bonar ' Tis first the true , and then the beautiful , Bonar Through night to ...
... Leave God to order all thy ways , - I only would be spent in pain , Therefore , O friend , I would not , if I might , Calm me , my God , and keep me calm , Bonar ' Tis first the true , and then the beautiful , Bonar Through night to ...
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... leave behind , may so truly say of us , " Though they return no more , yet we shall go to them ? " No ; our Christian feelings and hopes forbid us to " love too well that life that keeps us from a better , or to fear that death that ...
... leave behind , may so truly say of us , " Though they return no more , yet we shall go to them ? " No ; our Christian feelings and hopes forbid us to " love too well that life that keeps us from a better , or to fear that death that ...
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... leave all these for mere peradventures and longings ? The world of spirits , therefore , must be to us as much real as the Continent of Europe or America ; and the God who dwells there must be no fiction ; and our Saviour must be that ...
... leave all these for mere peradventures and longings ? The world of spirits , therefore , must be to us as much real as the Continent of Europe or America ; and the God who dwells there must be no fiction ; and our Saviour must be that ...
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... leaving , the present world , is frequently most inconsistent with our Christian profession , and most pernicious in its tendency . The common practical view of sick- ness among Christians , what is it but that the great- est of all ...
... leaving , the present world , is frequently most inconsistent with our Christian profession , and most pernicious in its tendency . The common practical view of sick- ness among Christians , what is it but that the great- est of all ...
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... leave it . The greatness of our sufferings , points to a cor- respondent greatness in the end to be gained . When I see what men are suffering around me , I cannot help feeling that it was meant not only that they should be far better ...
... leave it . The greatness of our sufferings , points to a cor- respondent greatness in the end to be gained . When I see what men are suffering around me , I cannot help feeling that it was meant not only that they should be far better ...
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Page 158 - I HEARD the voice of Jesus say, ' Come unto Me and rest ; Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast.' I came to Jesus as I was, Weary, and worn, and sad ; I found in Him a resting-place, And He has made me glad. 2 I heard the voice of Jesus say, ' Behold, I freely give The living water ; thirsty one, Stoop down, and drink, and live.
Page 80 - And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces and worshipped God, saying, Amen, blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen.
Page 97 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 182 - So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 160 - Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 99 - I LOVE the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 180 - What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power? Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
Page 87 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Page 147 - LORD, I believe a rest remains To all thy people known ; A rest where pure enjoyment reigns. And thou art loved alone : 2 A rest where all our soul's desire Is fixed on things above; Where fear, and sin, and grief expire, Cast out by perfect love.
Page 19 - And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side." "How many are you, then," said I, "If they two are in heaven?