Irenæus Letters: Second SeriesNew York Observer, 1885 - 388 pages |
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Page 5
... happy in your work in Matteawan as I was forty - five years ago , and far more suc- cessful , is the earnest prayer of your friend in the gospel of Christ S. IRENEUS PRIME . His leaving his much - loved parish and entering upon his ...
... happy in your work in Matteawan as I was forty - five years ago , and far more suc- cessful , is the earnest prayer of your friend in the gospel of Christ S. IRENEUS PRIME . His leaving his much - loved parish and entering upon his ...
Page 12
... happy spirit left its tenement and went up to join the company of the redeemed in heaven . We cannot attempt at this time to give any sketch of the life of our beloved associate and head . All that we can do is to acquaint our readers ...
... happy spirit left its tenement and went up to join the company of the redeemed in heaven . We cannot attempt at this time to give any sketch of the life of our beloved associate and head . All that we can do is to acquaint our readers ...
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... happy result . His sunny temperament inclined him to look upon the bright side of everything , and his steadfast faith in a gracious and overruling Providence enabled him always to see the silver lining behind the darkest cloud . Nor ...
... happy result . His sunny temperament inclined him to look upon the bright side of everything , and his steadfast faith in a gracious and overruling Providence enabled him always to see the silver lining behind the darkest cloud . Nor ...
Page 76
... happy years , the honored and beloved pastor . An hour before the public services his brethren of the clergy met in the chapel . The assembly was very remark- able for numbers and character , all the evangelical denomina- tions being ...
... happy years , the honored and beloved pastor . An hour before the public services his brethren of the clergy met in the chapel . The assembly was very remark- able for numbers and character , all the evangelical denomina- tions being ...
Page 84
... Happy the poet who sleeps under wreaths from all lands ! happy the poet whose songs have made the whole world kin ! EMERSON AND THE CHILDREN . IT was not my pleasure to spend more than one evening in company with Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
... Happy the poet who sleeps under wreaths from all lands ! happy the poet whose songs have made the whole world kin ! EMERSON AND THE CHILDREN . IT was not my pleasure to spend more than one evening in company with Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - 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.
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.