The Mothers' friend, ed. by Ann Jane, Volumes 4-7Ann Jane 1851 |
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... tell your grief ? Why did you go and burden another heart with your sorrows ? You wanted sympathy . If we have deep afflictions , it is a relief to speak of them in the attentive ear of one who has experienced the same kind of sorrow ...
... tell your grief ? Why did you go and burden another heart with your sorrows ? You wanted sympathy . If we have deep afflictions , it is a relief to speak of them in the attentive ear of one who has experienced the same kind of sorrow ...
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... tell you . By her hearth stood a lovely boy , over whose young head only two summer suns had passed ! By her side , on her dying bed , rested a tender infant , two weeks old ! Before her stood a young , tender , loving husband ! Near ...
... tell you . By her hearth stood a lovely boy , over whose young head only two summer suns had passed ! By her side , on her dying bed , rested a tender infant , two weeks old ! Before her stood a young , tender , loving husband ! Near ...
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... telling of things so false and frail , Of those gay streams that once beguiled- And she so pale ! Oh ! tell me not of the bright , clear sun , As his radiance lights up the morning skies ; For , oft as his race is just begun , His ...
... telling of things so false and frail , Of those gay streams that once beguiled- And she so pale ! Oh ! tell me not of the bright , clear sun , As his radiance lights up the morning skies ; For , oft as his race is just begun , His ...
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... tell tales ! " Being their Sabbath - school teacher , I stepped forward and asked what was the question at issue ... telling " not quite the truth , " and the dear child asked , " will God love her , teacher , if she tells a lie ? " My ...
... tell tales ! " Being their Sabbath - school teacher , I stepped forward and asked what was the question at issue ... telling " not quite the truth , " and the dear child asked , " will God love her , teacher , if she tells a lie ? " My ...
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... telling a lie - I only prevaricated ; I cannot think God would think it a lie ! " Oh , mothers , warn your little ones of speaking or ACTING a lie , tell them that God has said , liars have their portion among the wicked ; and be sure ...
... telling a lie - I only prevaricated ; I cannot think God would think it a lie ! " Oh , mothers , warn your little ones of speaking or ACTING a lie , tell them that God has said , liars have their portion among the wicked ; and be sure ...
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Page 237 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 103 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 186 - I'm constrained to be! Let that grace now, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee: Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.
Page 91 - Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. But He who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, "Go, spend them in the vale of tears.
Page 130 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 237 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 139 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 72 - I wish that his hands had been placed on my head, That his arm had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen his kind look, when he said, " Let the little ones come unto me.
Page 135 - How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run ! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ; But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best ; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page 35 - And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying : for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.