The United Presbyterian MagazineWilliam Oliphant and Sons, 1878 |
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... duty , truthfulness , kindliness , which he sets before them , -all these are as much a part of his contribution to God's work in the world , as any books he writes or any institutions he founds . And few teachers have had such oppor ...
... duty , truthfulness , kindliness , which he sets before them , -all these are as much a part of his contribution to God's work in the world , as any books he writes or any institutions he founds . And few teachers have had such oppor ...
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... duty , therefore , was plain . In 1852 he resigned his charge . One may understand with what mixture of feelings such a step would be taken . Gladness there would be at the relief from all sense of responsibility which lays leaden hands ...
... duty , therefore , was plain . In 1852 he resigned his charge . One may understand with what mixture of feelings such a step would be taken . Gladness there would be at the relief from all sense of responsibility which lays leaden hands ...
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... duty . Hard though the duty was , it had its sunny side . This work , too - as all honest work does - brought its reward . If the rooms were close and unpleasant , the inmates welcomed him with a ready greeting . They felt him to be one ...
... duty . Hard though the duty was , it had its sunny side . This work , too - as all honest work does - brought its reward . If the rooms were close and unpleasant , the inmates welcomed him with a ready greeting . They felt him to be one ...
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... duty in this matter without delay . Read letter from Mr. Cuthbertson , stating that the Holm congregation withdrew the application recently made for change of site . As agreed upon at last meeting , the presbytery then entered into a ...
... duty in this matter without delay . Read letter from Mr. Cuthbertson , stating that the Holm congregation withdrew the application recently made for change of site . As agreed upon at last meeting , the presbytery then entered into a ...
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... duty of seeing to it that , as your minister has found for you a sermon , so you have found for him an audience . Secondly , in prosecuting the work of Church Extension in this place , I trust you will do so in a right spirit ...
... duty of seeing to it that , as your minister has found for you a sermon , so you have found for him an audience . Secondly , in prosecuting the work of Church Extension in this place , I trust you will do so in a right spirit ...
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Page 72 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 386 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 414 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 204 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 114 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 155 - When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
Page 21 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 75 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Page 337 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 201 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.