Irenæus Letters: Second SeriesNew York Observer, 1885 - 388 pages |
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... passed since I entered upon its pastoral care . Beautifully nestled It was then an ideal pastoral charge . at the foot of the mountains , near the great river , the people largely engaged in manufactures , liberal , hospitable , intelli ...
... passed since I entered upon its pastoral care . Beautifully nestled It was then an ideal pastoral charge . at the foot of the mountains , near the great river , the people largely engaged in manufactures , liberal , hospitable , intelli ...
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... passed away ; few know that one of my name was ever a keeper of the flock on that mountain - slope ; but them that God gave me he will keep unto that day when it will be my exceeding joy to present them before our Father's face in the ...
... passed away ; few know that one of my name was ever a keeper of the flock on that mountain - slope ; but them that God gave me he will keep unto that day when it will be my exceeding joy to present them before our Father's face in the ...
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... consecrate long after all of us who knew him have passed away . When John's disciples learned that their leader had nobly fallen they came and took the body and buried it , and went and told Jesus . Unto 8 IRENEUS Letters .
... consecrate long after all of us who knew him have passed away . When John's disciples learned that their leader had nobly fallen they came and took the body and buried it , and went and told Jesus . Unto 8 IRENEUS Letters .
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... passed away so gently and peacefully that it was impossible to tell at what moment his 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 ...
... passed away so gently and peacefully that it was impossible to tell at what moment his 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 ...
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... passed into the skies . " It is not often the lot of any man to stand in the midst of the graves of six generations of his own family and name . Having just made a pious pilgrimage to these tombs , I may be pardoned for speaking of the ...
... passed into the skies . " It is not often the lot of any man to stand in the midst of the graves of six generations of his own family and name . Having just made a pious pilgrimage to these tombs , I may be pardoned for speaking of the ...
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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.