Lives Made Sublime: Or, Sketches of Christian Men who Adorned Their Lives with Good WorksCarlton & Porter, 1899 - 386 páginas |
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... passed through a bitter experience . The light , however , dawned upon his soul ; he was led to believe on Christ ... passing away , but for that which is to come . Has the reader graduated in this school ? Mr. Sugden thus describes the ...
... passed through a bitter experience . The light , however , dawned upon his soul ; he was led to believe on Christ ... passing away , but for that which is to come . Has the reader graduated in this school ? Mr. Sugden thus describes the ...
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... passed the strait gate . The fear of death rose to darken his hope , and Satan assaulted his soul . Grace , however , tri- umphed , and he regained peace . To aid his prog- ress he joined his father's class , and became a mem- ber of ...
... passed the strait gate . The fear of death rose to darken his hope , and Satan assaulted his soul . Grace , however , tri- umphed , and he regained peace . To aid his prog- ress he joined his father's class , and became a mem- ber of ...
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... passed away : " My dear , give yourself no anxiety about my children ; God will bring them all to himself . " She had prayed for them , and she looked for the answer of a faithful God . She might not see the fulfillment on earth , but ...
... passed away : " My dear , give yourself no anxiety about my children ; God will bring them all to himself . " She had prayed for them , and she looked for the answer of a faithful God . She might not see the fulfillment on earth , but ...
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... passed the morning in his study ; but in the afternoon walked to the barn , where the labor- ers were at work with a machine . While he patted the mule drawing the machine , his study coat caught the wheel . His arm was dragged in , and ...
... passed the morning in his study ; but in the afternoon walked to the barn , where the labor- ers were at work with a machine . While he patted the mule drawing the machine , his study coat caught the wheel . His arm was dragged in , and ...
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... praise be given ; Who sent him like a radiant bow His covenant of life to show , Athwart the passing storm to glow , Then vanish into heaven . " ENSIGN MARCUS CHEEK , THE YOUNG CONFESSOR . Thou therefore 38 LIVES MADE SUBLIME .
... praise be given ; Who sent him like a radiant bow His covenant of life to show , Athwart the passing storm to glow , Then vanish into heaven . " ENSIGN MARCUS CHEEK , THE YOUNG CONFESSOR . Thou therefore 38 LIVES MADE SUBLIME .
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Lives Made Sublime: Or, Sketches of Christian Men who Adorned Their Lives ... Robert Steel Visualização de excertos - 1899 |
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attended became benevolence Bible blessed Cawnpore character Charles Charles Wesley Christian Church of Scotland congregation dayly death devoted divine drink earnest Ebley Edinburgh eloquence England eternal evangelist faith father fear feel Flockhart friends Fulneck gave GEORGE WHITEFIELD give Glasgow glory Gospel grace hand happy Havelock heart heaven HENRY HAVELOCK holy honor Howel Harris Hugh Miller ical interest James James Stirling Jesus Christ labors land lectures living Llangeitho Lord Jesus master ment mind minister ministry missionary Montgomery ness never night parish person piety poet pray prayer preacher preaching reader received religion religious Sabbath Saviour says Scotland Scriptures sermon Sheffield Society soldier soon sought soul spirit Stirling Sugden teetotal temperance thee thou thought thousand tion truth Tyng Wales Welsh language Whitefield Wide 16mo William Allen words wrote young youth
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Página 248 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side: But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 7 - Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Página 26 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Página 378 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Página 377 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try, Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry,
Página 248 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the...
Página 146 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering ; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed.
Página 68 - Piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews. Such was thy wisdom, Newton, child-like sage ! Sagacious reader of the works of God, And in his word sagacious. Such too thine, Milton, whose genius had angelic wings, And fed on manna. And such thine in whom Our British Themis gloried...
Página 263 - When I tread the verge of Jordan, Bid my anxious fears subside: Death of death, and hell's destruction, Land me safe on Canaan's side ; Songs of praises I will ever give to thee.
Página 283 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!