The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 34-35Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1881 - Baptists |
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... hours of sunshine , we had only four hundred ! This one fact has told upon England in many ways . Our harvests have been poor and thin ; our fruit has been unripe and far from abundant ; and , explain it how we will , the spirits of our ...
... hours of sunshine , we had only four hundred ! This one fact has told upon England in many ways . Our harvests have been poor and thin ; our fruit has been unripe and far from abundant ; and , explain it how we will , the spirits of our ...
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... hour . When roast beef is scarce , oatmeal pudding , with a little gravy , ekes out the feast for many a poor man . REST AS A MEDICINE . - The benefits | sherry and bitters before you sit down of rest in aiding the healing process to ...
... hour . When roast beef is scarce , oatmeal pudding , with a little gravy , ekes out the feast for many a poor man . REST AS A MEDICINE . - The benefits | sherry and bitters before you sit down of rest in aiding the healing process to ...
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... hour . Garibaldi still slept . After another delay the attendant awoke him . The General rubbed his eyes , and so did his attendant , when he saw the old warrior take from under the covering the lost lamb , and bid him convey it to the ...
... hour . Garibaldi still slept . After another delay the attendant awoke him . The General rubbed his eyes , and so did his attendant , when he saw the old warrior take from under the covering the lost lamb , and bid him convey it to the ...
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... hours . Hints . I think that if you observe what justice and kindness both say to you in the journey of life , other people will be glad to walk with you , and be sorry to part with you ; and that when you get to the end you will look ...
... hours . Hints . I think that if you observe what justice and kindness both say to you in the journey of life , other people will be glad to walk with you , and be sorry to part with you ; and that when you get to the end you will look ...
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... hour of eternity , one moment with the Lord , will make us utterly forget a lifetime's desolation . - Bonar . Poetic ... hours thou must blush to own , When thy spirit stands before the throne , To account for the talents lent ; Count ...
... hour of eternity , one moment with the Lord , will make us utterly forget a lifetime's desolation . - Bonar . Poetic ... hours thou must blush to own , When thy spirit stands before the throne , To account for the talents lent ; Count ...
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Page 63 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 107 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 54 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 72 - There is an eye that never sleeps Beneath the wing of night; There is an ear that never shuts, When sink the beams of light.
Page 25 - No good in creatures can be found, But may be found in thee : I must have all things, and abound, While God is God to me.
Page 24 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee...
Page 72 - BE not afraid to pray — to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope ; but ever pray, Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light. Far is the time, remote from human sight, When war and discord on the earth shall cease ; Yet every prayer for universal peace Avails the blessed time to expedite. Whate'er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven, Though it be what thou canst not hope to see: Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so...
Page 115 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him •where the stranger was : he replied, ' I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee.
Page 89 - In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Page 10 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed, is done...