The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1878 - Baptists |
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... soul unsaved never knows . Oh , world - wearied souls , cease from your vain endeavours , your fruitless strivings for something that earth can never give . The fountain of living waters is not in these burning sands ; it bursts from ...
... soul unsaved never knows . Oh , world - wearied souls , cease from your vain endeavours , your fruitless strivings for something that earth can never give . The fountain of living waters is not in these burning sands ; it bursts from ...
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... Soul , take thine ease ; " and do weeks and months pass without the record of one deed of sacrifice done for the Master ? Instead of being a worker , are you a drone ? And all the while are you dreaming of an imaginary martyrdom ? But ...
... Soul , take thine ease ; " and do weeks and months pass without the record of one deed of sacrifice done for the Master ? Instead of being a worker , are you a drone ? And all the while are you dreaming of an imaginary martyrdom ? But ...
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... soul visited the hospitals ; and for the whole of these three days the sick and wounded were without water and without food . The most horrible sights were seen when , at last , the hospitals were thought of : men , stark and dead , who ...
... soul visited the hospitals ; and for the whole of these three days the sick and wounded were without water and without food . The most horrible sights were seen when , at last , the hospitals were thought of : men , stark and dead , who ...
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... soul has struggled with long and painfully , find sudden outlet in language of which the praying one never conceived before . Some men can habitually speak in prayer as nowhere else . An unlettered Christian was once summoned to court ...
... soul has struggled with long and painfully , find sudden outlet in language of which the praying one never conceived before . Some men can habitually speak in prayer as nowhere else . An unlettered Christian was once summoned to court ...
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... soul ; but he had seen a little church spire which rose from the village , and among their rude homes was pointing towards heaven . The Christian missionary had been there , and God's work among the people was the pledge of safety to ...
... soul ; but he had seen a little church spire which rose from the village , and among their rude homes was pointing towards heaven . The Christian missionary had been there , and God's work among the people was the pledge of safety to ...
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Page 38 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 140 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 24 - After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days; My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmerings and decays.
Page 24 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, At first sight, if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Page 76 - O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Page 133 - Christ, for his brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh ; " and if his " heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel was, that they might be saved...
Page 17 - ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all.
Page 21 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Page 48 - What to thee is shadow, to him is day. And the end he knoweth, And not on a blind and aimless way The spirit goeth.
Page 16 - ... nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot ; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. I do not care how much or how well he works, this fellow is an evil feature in other people's lives.