John-JackH.B.Nims & Company, 1885 - 320 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 22 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 308 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 164 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? " Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 170 - Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Page 68 - I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received Him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That He was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Page 225 - ORD, many times I am aweary quite Of mine own self, my sin, my vanity — Yet be not thou, or I am lost outright, Weary of me. And hate against myself I often bear, And enter with myself in fierce debate : Take thou my part against myself, nor share In that just hate ! Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse We know of our own selves, they also knew : Lord, Holy One ! if thou who knowest worse Shouldst loathe us too ! THE DAY OF DEATH.
Page 228 - And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Page 148 - It seems sometimes as tho the days were spent in "paying tithes of mint and anise and cummin and omitting the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.
Page 229 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.