The IncarnationHarper & brothers, 1849 - 227 pages |
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... heart from childhood pass under their eye , their mind wanders in dreamy vacancy . They start at the end of a chapter , and rise from it sighing and discouraged . Even the true Christian , of an unimagina- tive temperament , suffers ...
... heart from childhood pass under their eye , their mind wanders in dreamy vacancy . They start at the end of a chapter , and rise from it sighing and discouraged . Even the true Christian , of an unimagina- tive temperament , suffers ...
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... heart's inner table of memory , and are ineffaceable by all the waves of time . Years may roll away , a fright- ful chasm yawn between us and some being we have thus admired ; age may steal upon us , and the lamp of life burn low ...
... heart's inner table of memory , and are ineffaceable by all the waves of time . Years may roll away , a fright- ful chasm yawn between us and some being we have thus admired ; age may steal upon us , and the lamp of life burn low ...
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... heart tender and true , ready to beat responsive to every pulse of genuine feeling , ready to sym- pathize , quick to bestow , ready to gush forth and mingle in every stream of pure emotion ; when , above all , we find the affinities of ...
... heart tender and true , ready to beat responsive to every pulse of genuine feeling , ready to sym- pathize , quick to bestow , ready to gush forth and mingle in every stream of pure emotion ; when , above all , we find the affinities of ...
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... heart was bro- ken by our incredible contumely ! There was a tide of love , shoreless and un- fathomable , and on its wave He was borne into life . That love rose to its height out of the deep abysses of His nature ; but at the highest ...
... heart was bro- ken by our incredible contumely ! There was a tide of love , shoreless and un- fathomable , and on its wave He was borne into life . That love rose to its height out of the deep abysses of His nature ; but at the highest ...
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... heart lingers near some lower shrine . Bewildering clouds beset the view . But oh ! in the resurrection dawn , when heaven is all abroad and Jesus shall appear , all heaven will contain but only Him ! No cloud between , no lower shrine ...
... heart lingers near some lower shrine . Bewildering clouds beset the view . But oh ! in the resurrection dawn , when heaven is all abroad and Jesus shall appear , all heaven will contain but only Him ! No cloud between , no lower shrine ...
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Page 59 - And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and shalt call His Name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David.
Page 145 - Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Page 84 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ! ,. For he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of his servant David ; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, Which have been since the world began...
Page 68 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 106 - For thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 205 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 103 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Page 122 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting.
Page 88 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.