| 1831 - 442 Seiten
...him for public employment, be reflected that he did good as he bad opportunity. " Alas! " said be, " I have lost every thing. My understanding leaves me,...fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still." So great was his charity, that his salary was often distributed for the relief of his seedy neighbours,... | |
| James Grahame - 1836 - 488 Seiten
...faculties (he said) were absorbed in holy love. Being asked, shortly before his departure, how he felt, he replied, " I have lost every thing : my understanding...under a dangerous illness, had recalled him from the brink of the grave. Mather. Neal. violent opposition to these innovations was excited by the CHAP,... | |
| 1836 - 368 Seiten
...every thing; my understanding leaves me, — my memory fails me, — my utterance fail» me ; but 1 thank God my charity holds out still : — I find that rather grows than fails.' When speaking about the propagation of the Gospel among the Indians, he remarked, ' There is a cloud,... | |
| 1837 - 424 Seiten
...the prosperity of the New England churches. When some one inquired how he was, he replied, ' Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails.' One of his last remembrances lingered sadly among those, to whom he had given so much of his strength... | |
| English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 Seiten
...study for me, and give me leave to be gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, " Alas ! 1 have lost every thing. My understanding leaves me...God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow, than fail." Referring to the object which lay so near his heart, the propagation of the Gospel... | |
| 536 Seiten
...have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but 1 thank God my charity holds out still, I find that rather grows than fails " He died in the year 1690, aged 87,—Hinton's Amtrica. £ljink licforv tijmi COUNCIL which Catwy... | |
| Convers Francis - 1840 - 384 Seiten
...the prosperity of the New England churches. When some one inquired how he was, he replied, " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." One of his last remembrances lingered sadly among those, to whom he had given so much of his strength... | |
| 1841 - 848 Seiten
...give me leave to he gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, "Alas! 1 have lost everything. My understanding leaves me — my memory fails me...God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow, than fail." Referring to the object which lay so near his heart, the propagation of the Gospel... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1842 - 288 Seiten
...flame of love. " Alas !" he said, " I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me. My memory — my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that grows rather than fails." His name has been appropriately given to a flourishing missionary station,... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1842 - 290 Seiten
...flame of love. " Alas !" he said, " I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me. My memory—my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that grows rather than fails." His name has been appropriately given to a flourishing missionary station,... | |
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