The Amaranth: A Gift for All SeasonsAmerican Sunday-school union, 1842 - 233 pages |
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... rest the pre- ceding night , hoping , with the morning light , to welcome the long - desired Island of the Tomb . Three months had we ploughed a sluggish southern ocean , or been tossed on the rough waters of the Cape , without once ...
... rest the pre- ceding night , hoping , with the morning light , to welcome the long - desired Island of the Tomb . Three months had we ploughed a sluggish southern ocean , or been tossed on the rough waters of the Cape , without once ...
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... rest- less spirit of the conqueror , confined , smothered , consumed by its own unhallowed fires , and can- kered by the gnawings of the undying worm , strug- gled to throw off its manacles till it burst from its earthly tenement - is ...
... rest- less spirit of the conqueror , confined , smothered , consumed by its own unhallowed fires , and can- kered by the gnawings of the undying worm , strug- gled to throw off its manacles till it burst from its earthly tenement - is ...
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... and hymn book , which bore the marks of every day use , and an old book much mutilated and worn , which I found to be Baxter's Saints ' Rest ; composed the furniture of the room , and the whole THE DISCIPLE OF ST . HELENA . 23.
... and hymn book , which bore the marks of every day use , and an old book much mutilated and worn , which I found to be Baxter's Saints ' Rest ; composed the furniture of the room , and the whole THE DISCIPLE OF ST . HELENA . 23.
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... rest . " Brother , " said the dying woman , " the world is all deceitful , except so far as it is made helpful to us in our journey to the next . I have found written on every thing , Vanity of vanities , all is vunity . The world is a ...
... rest . " Brother , " said the dying woman , " the world is all deceitful , except so far as it is made helpful to us in our journey to the next . I have found written on every thing , Vanity of vanities , all is vunity . The world is a ...
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... rest upon this nation , for their dealings with this people ? " I once lived very near an Indian village or re- servation , as it was called , belonging to the tribe of the Tuscaroras . There were also parts of other tribes in the ...
... rest upon this nation , for their dealings with this people ? " I once lived very near an Indian village or re- servation , as it was called , belonging to the tribe of the Tuscaroras . There were also parts of other tribes in the ...
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Page 161 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amarant and gold; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream; With these, that...
Page 188 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 161 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy, heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions...
Page 114 - The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Page 32 - Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 128 - For GOD so loved the world, that he gave his only Begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have Everlasting life.
Page 159 - Of mercy and justice in thy face discern'd, Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat Second to thee, offer'd himself to die For man's offence. O unexampled love ! Love no where to be found less than divine ! Hail, Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song Henceforth, and never shall my harp thy praise Forget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin ! " Thus they in heaven, above the starry sphere, Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent.
Page 157 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Page 32 - Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Page 75 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.