| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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