The Female Teacher: Ideas Suggestive of Her Qualifications and Duties

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Paton and Ritchie, 1853 - 172 pages

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Page 140 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 65 - Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 172 - SOW in the morn thy seed, At eve hold not thy hand ; To doubt and fear give thou no heed Broadcast it o'er the land.
Page 172 - The good, the fruitful ground, Expect not here, nor there ; O'er hill and dale, by plots, 'tis found ; Go forth, then, everywhere. Thou know'st not which may thrive, The late or early sown ; Grace keeps the precious germ alive, When and wherever sown.
Page 133 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...
Page 4 - His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law ; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 5 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 4 - Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law...
Page 167 - Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our Faith ; Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God. For, consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 172 - Thou canst not toil in vain — Cold, heat, and moist, and dry Shall foster and mature the grain For garners in the sky. Thence, when the glorious end, The day of God is come, The angel-reapers shall descend, And heaven cry " Harvest home ! " James Montgomery, I77i,-1854, HOME.

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