 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...Teugh's Church consisted of four persons ; himself and wife ; and his son and wife. His grace was ; " God bless me and my wife ; My son John and his wife ; We four, and no more ; and let all the rest shift for themselves." There wanted but a denomination... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - Society of Friends - 1834 - 226 pages
...my church, my barn, or my house ; and if his prayer were founded on his creed, he might pray, Lord bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, Us four, And no more ! x Soberly, we allege, that this flimsy and ridiculous criticism is beneath contempt, and we should... | |
 | George Rogers - Apologetics - 1839 - 396 pages
...who, like most old people, is very garrulous, often entertains me with the Scotchman's prayer : ' Lord bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife ; Us four, No more, my Lord, I care for no more.' " . CHAPTER VI. WEREryou ever present, reader, at an universalist... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1840 - 366 pages
...who, like most old people, is very garrulous, often entertains me with the Scotchman's prayer : ' Lord bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife ; Us four, No more, my Lord, I care fn* no more.'" CHAPTER VI. WERE you ever present, reader, at an universalist... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1843 - 372 pages
...wno, like most old people, is very garrulous, often entertains me with the Scotchman's prayer : ' Lord bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife ; Us four, No more, my Lord, I care fn* no more." " CHAPTER VI. WEHB you ever present, reader, at an universalist... | |
 | Baptists - 1901 - 780 pages
...take but slight hold of the suppliant. Prayer should take a broad vision of the field. To pray for "Me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more," will never inspire a soul to noble actions. It will shrivel into a tiny insularity and lose its last... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1906 - 772 pages
...be of a similar comprehensive nature. We should not inquire as the man prayed for blessings, upon " me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more," but as to how we can better the conditions of agriculture in the nation, trusting to our own efforts... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...principles, and proclivities remained unchanged. It still hated every thing but itself, and prayed still : " God bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, We four, ar.d no more." There was no perceptible change in its tone towards the foreign population... | |
 | Sydney A. Story, Mary Hayden Green Pike - African Americans - 1856 - 548 pages
...look out for himself and his family, and leave others to do the same." " Like the man that prayed, ' God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, and my half of Pete, the nigger,' " suggested Ned, slyly. His father frowned, but could not help laughing,... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - Women - 1864 - 330 pages
...are they all hopelessly lost ? We may talk about the utter selfishness of that man who prayed — " God bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, Us four and no more. Amen. It is the unuttered prayer of half the world. Do we not all therefore practically pray ? It's a great... | |
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God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more". 
