Christian Aspects of Faith and DutyC.S. Francis, 1851 - 349 Seiten |
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Seite 15 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Seite 9 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord : And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Seite 286 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Seite 322 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Seite 76 - And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly ; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found- them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Seite 156 - Nurses her store, with thine to blend When many a moor and glen are past, Then in the wide sea end Their spotless lives at last ? Even so, the course of prayer who knows ? It springs in silence where it will, Springs out of sight, and flows At first a lonely rill: But streams shall meet it by and by From thousand sympathetic hearts, Together swelling high Their chant of many parts.
Seite 174 - ... pursuit of phantoms. A marriage contracted with thoughtfulness, and cemented by a pure and faithful love, when a fixed position is gained in the world, and a small fund has been accumulated — hard work and frugal habits at the commencement of domestic life, to meet in time the possible demands of a future family — a dwelling comfortably furnished, clean, bright, salubrious, and sweet — children well trained, and early sent to school — a small collection of good books on the shelves —...
Seite 128 - But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which vail is done away in Christ; but even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart: nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away (now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty).
Seite 241 - Indeed, Germany hath her boors, like our yeomen, but by a tyrannical appropriation of nobility to some few ancient families, their yeomen are excluded from ever rising higher to clarify their bloods. In England the temple of honour is bolted against none who have passed through the temple of virtue : nor is a capacity to be genteel denied to our yeoman who thus behaves himself.
Seite 77 - For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual,