Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three Thousand Facts, Incidents, Narratives, Examples and Testimonies, Containing the Best of the Kind in Most Former Collections, and Some Hundreds in Addition, Original and Selected, the Whole Critically Arranged and Classified on a New Plan, with Copious Topical and Scriptural IndexesLeavitt and Allen, 1848 - 891 pages |
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... given him wealth to re- ward the goodness of his benefactress . My mother ! O my mother ! " It was indeed her long lost son , returned from India . He had chosen this way to surprise his family , and certainly not very wisely ; but ...
... given him wealth to re- ward the goodness of his benefactress . My mother ! O my mother ! " It was indeed her long lost son , returned from India . He had chosen this way to surprise his family , and certainly not very wisely ; but ...
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... given , the Lord hath taken away , and blessed be the name of the Lord . " Thus did her afflictions yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness , and her heavenly Father chasten her , " not for His pleasure , but for her profit , that ...
... given , the Lord hath taken away , and blessed be the name of the Lord . " Thus did her afflictions yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness , and her heavenly Father chasten her , " not for His pleasure , but for her profit , that ...
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... given me wife and children , whom I now restore to thee . Lord , nourish , teach , and preserve them , as thou hast me . " ( e ) A TOKEN OF GOD'S FA- VOR.-Mr. Newton had a very happy talent of administering reproof . Hear- ing that a ...
... given me wife and children , whom I now restore to thee . Lord , nourish , teach , and preserve them , as thou hast me . " ( e ) A TOKEN OF GOD'S FA- VOR.-Mr. Newton had a very happy talent of administering reproof . Hear- ing that a ...
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... given him a bad halfpenny , and de- manded another in exchange for it . Sir James had about forty thousand pounds per annum , and was at loss whom to appoint his heir . I knew one Sir Thomas Colby , who lived at Kensing- ton , and was ...
... given him a bad halfpenny , and de- manded another in exchange for it . Sir James had about forty thousand pounds per annum , and was at loss whom to appoint his heir . I knew one Sir Thomas Colby , who lived at Kensing- ton , and was ...
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... given to the household that the whole of the su- perfluous food should be carefully distri- buted according to the wants of the poor : and , instead of the usual festivi- ties on the following birth - days of the prince and princess ...
... given to the household that the whole of the su- perfluous food should be carefully distri- buted according to the wants of the poor : and , instead of the usual festivi- ties on the following birth - days of the prince and princess ...
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Page 346 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 148 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 318 - Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world.
Page 638 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Page 462 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 374 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 269 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 151 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 401 - Socrates, peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted, and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared.
Page 248 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...