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" Alas, I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails. "
The History of the United States of North America, Till the British ... - Seite 321
von James Grahame - 1833
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John Eliot: A Sketch Read at the Dedication of the Eliot Memorial Window in ...

John Traviss Lockwood - 1894 - 36 Seiten
...was, to which he replied: — "Alas! "I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me; my memory fails me; but I thank God, my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." Mr. Walter, his colleague, called to see him just before he died, to whom he said : — " You are welcome...
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Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Roxbury Charitable ...

Roxbury Charitable Society - 1894 - 92 Seiten
...drew near, Eliot himself said, " Alas, I have lost everything ! My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." And the story which is so familiar to many of you who worship in this sanctuary can well be told again...
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Some Correspondence Between the Governors and Treasurers of the New England ...

Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America - 1896 - 182 Seiten
...manner, quite decayed with age, being asked how he did, he replied, ' Alas I I have lost everything : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails.' He was a good scholar, especially in the languages, and one who would never allow himself to be idle....
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The New England Magazine, Band 15

1897 - 800 Seiten
...him how he was, and he said : "Alas! I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me; my memory fails me; but I thank God, my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." On the 2ist of May, 1690, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, he calmly fell asleep. No missionary...
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Ten New England Leaders

Williston Walker - 1901 - 486 Seiten
...well leave him there, with his own characteristic remark to those who asked him " how he did " ? " My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...me; but, I thank God, my charity holds out still." ' 1 Letter of Increase Mather, Magnalia, i., pp. 566, 567. 8 Magnalia, i., p. 576. ' Ibid.,\., pp....
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Ten New England Leaders

Williston Walker - 1901 - 504 Seiten
...well leave him there, with his own characteristic remark to those who asked him " how he did " ? " My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...; but, I thank God, my charity holds out still.'" 1 Letter of Increase Mather, Magnalia, i., pp. 566, 567. 9 Magnalia, i., p. 576. '/&',/., i., pp. 576,...
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Outline of a History of Protestant Missions from the Reformation to the ...

Gustav Warneck - 1901 - 412 Seiten
...beneath many painful experiences, particularly the enmity of the colonists, he wrote to Robert Boyle: '' My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still/' , , , 166 PROTESTANT MISSIONS almost as much to suffer from the suspicious English as from their heathen...
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Pioneer Missionaries of the Church

Charles Cole Creegan - 1903 - 374 Seiten
..."I have lost everything, my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me—my utterance fails—but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." On May 20, 1690, the Indian's noblest friend left them to enter into a rest which no earthly tumults...
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American Pioneers

William Augustus Mowry, Blanche (Swett) Mowry - 1905 - 380 Seiten
...Alas, I have lost everything ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails ; my utterance has gone ; but, I thank God, my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." His last words were " Welcome, joy." " His youth was innocent ; his riper age Marked with some act...
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The Harvard Theological Review, Band 5

1912 - 594 Seiten
...when a friend asked him how he was in his last sickness, he replied: "Alas! I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...me; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I think that rather grows than fails." Eliot's preaching must have been of a very high character for...
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