The British Messenger: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Diffusion of Scriptural Knowledge, the Promotion of Vital Religion and the Advancement of Social Reformation, Volumes 1-5Drummond's Tract Depot, 1879 - Christianity |
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... seemed very long to them both . But by and bye the stillness was broken , and the boy's attention attracted by the old man's voice - at first in low and broken sentences , and then in a continuous out- pouring . Tom listened and ...
... seemed very long to them both . But by and bye the stillness was broken , and the boy's attention attracted by the old man's voice - at first in low and broken sentences , and then in a continuous out- pouring . Tom listened and ...
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... seemed to be the echo of the old man's happy spirit . And so at last the summons came . I have told you how he met it . This is no fancy sketch , but the simple record of a real life - a life clouded by poverty , suffering and privation ...
... seemed to be the echo of the old man's happy spirit . And so at last the summons came . I have told you how he met it . This is no fancy sketch , but the simple record of a real life - a life clouded by poverty , suffering and privation ...
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... seemed like one who was standing far above me : but when Alexander , that good man that everybody kens is the holiest man in the place , came in , he stood like at my side ; and when he classed himself with me , and said , ' sinners ...
... seemed like one who was standing far above me : but when Alexander , that good man that everybody kens is the holiest man in the place , came in , he stood like at my side ; and when he classed himself with me , and said , ' sinners ...
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... seemed to gleam before him ; and he was deemed , by the many , a most successful and fortunate man . One method employed by him , to gain funds to carry on his political schemes and commercial speculations , was wholesale forgery ...
... seemed to gleam before him ; and he was deemed , by the many , a most successful and fortunate man . One method employed by him , to gain funds to carry on his political schemes and commercial speculations , was wholesale forgery ...
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... seemed to him to be self - evidencing . The help recently afforded by this country to the inhabitants of the famine - stricken districts of China has had the most beneficial results . A British consul on the spot has given it as his ...
... seemed to him to be self - evidencing . The help recently afforded by this country to the inhabitants of the famine - stricken districts of China has had the most beneficial results . A British consul on the spot has given it as his ...
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Page 40 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference...
Page 116 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Page 137 - God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 16 - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Page 116 - For God speaketh once, Yea, twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Page 171 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 87 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed, and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Page 1 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew : as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
Page 69 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 99 - For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.