The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 20-23Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1866 - Baptists |
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... miles have been laid down , and 1,500 more are contemplated , and in a few years all will be in working order . These , except one hundred and twenty - four miles of double , are all single lines , with numerous shunting places for the ...
... miles have been laid down , and 1,500 more are contemplated , and in a few years all will be in working order . These , except one hundred and twenty - four miles of double , are all single lines , with numerous shunting places for the ...
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... miles south - west of Land's End . The violent weather continued , and at half - past ten on Wednesday night the ship rolled and pitched fearfully , shipping such quantities of water on deck as to carry away the engine - room hatch ...
... miles south - west of Land's End . The violent weather continued , and at half - past ten on Wednesday night the ship rolled and pitched fearfully , shipping such quantities of water on deck as to carry away the engine - room hatch ...
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... miles wide , embracing about sixteen thousand square miles , bounded upon either side by barren deserts . These fields are of course destitute of fences , but cut up by canals , through which the water passes to and fro , and from which ...
... miles wide , embracing about sixteen thousand square miles , bounded upon either side by barren deserts . These fields are of course destitute of fences , but cut up by canals , through which the water passes to and fro , and from which ...
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... mile south east from its summit Bethany still abides , suggesting at once the circle of sacred friendships and the calling of Lazarus from the tomb . Beneath the city , and entered near the Damascus Gate , is the great cave but recently ...
... mile south east from its summit Bethany still abides , suggesting at once the circle of sacred friendships and the calling of Lazarus from the tomb . Beneath the city , and entered near the Damascus Gate , is the great cave but recently ...
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... miles away from here . " " When did you see them last ? " " About two years ago . " Then he told his sad story . I said , " You must go back again . " " No , " he replied , " I mustn't go back ; I wont . My wife is better without me ...
... miles away from here . " " When did you see them last ? " " About two years ago . " Then he told his sad story . I said , " You must go back again . " " No , " he replied , " I mustn't go back ; I wont . My wife is better without me ...
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Page 109 - and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; 'God...
Page 59 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 47 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 112 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 87 - Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may thy service be ? — Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, But simply following Thee.
Page 60 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work...
Page 108 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 139 - OF all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come thronging, Which one was e'er so dear, so kind, So beautiful as Longing ? The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real...
Page 63 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide? " In His feet and hands are woundprints, And His side.
Page 75 - PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe.