Life of James MontgomeryGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 416 pages |
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... the stir of a departure about the door , and James has gone - gone never again to have a home , where " mother , wife , Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life , Around whose knees domestic duties meet , And fireside pleasures 2.
... the stir of a departure about the door , and James has gone - gone never again to have a home , where " mother , wife , Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life , Around whose knees domestic duties meet , And fireside pleasures 2.
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... never know . When he was twelve , together they visited Fulneck , bringing their two younger sons , Ignatius and Robert , and remained three months at the Settlement , previous to leaving England for a missionary life in the West Indies ...
... never know . When he was twelve , together they visited Fulneck , bringing their two younger sons , Ignatius and Robert , and remained three months at the Settlement , previous to leaving England for a missionary life in the West Indies ...
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... never be ashamed of him . " “ This , ” said James , many years afterwards , " I never forgot ; nor shall I forget it while I live . I have , indeed , endeavored so to act hitherto , that my country might never have cause to be ashamed ...
... never be ashamed of him . " “ This , ” said James , many years afterwards , " I never forgot ; nor shall I forget it while I live . I have , indeed , endeavored so to act hitherto , that my country might never have cause to be ashamed ...
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... never felt so sweet a pain . " After an interval of fluttering hopes and fears , and all the changeful play of passionate emotion , - an interval , how long we cannot determine , Then " When sick at heart with hope delayed ,
... never felt so sweet a pain . " After an interval of fluttering hopes and fears , and all the changeful play of passionate emotion , - an interval , how long we cannot determine , Then " When sick at heart with hope delayed ,
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... never mention a word of it now ; but our greatest grief is , that we have not as yet found a single soul that seeks a Saviour . " Dark as the picture is , darker shadows fall over it , when , two months later , Mary , the devoted wife ...
... never mention a word of it now ; but our greatest grief is , that we have not as yet found a single soul that seeks a Saviour . " Dark as the picture is , darker shadows fall over it , when , two months later , Mary , the devoted wife ...
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Page 212 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 374 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 377 - FOR EVER with the Lord!" Amen! so let it be! Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 349 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 198 - Lonely, I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave ; Where you dwell shall be my home, Where you die shall be my grave. Mine the God whom you adore, Your Redeemer shall be mine ; Earth can fill my soul no more, Every idol I resign. 3 Tell me not of gain or loss, Ease, enjoyment, pomp and power; Welcome poverty and cross, Shame, reproach, affliction's hour ; "Follow me...
Page 396 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 244 - Twas night ; the floods were out ; it blew A winter hurricane aloof; I heard his voice abroad, and flew To bid him welcome to my roof ; I warmed, I clothed, I cheered my guest, Laid him on my own couch to rest ; Then made the hearth my bed, and seemed In Eden's garden while I dreamed.
Page 245 - Then in a moment, to my view, The stranger darted from disguise ; The tokens in his hands I knew—- My Saviour stood before mine eyes. He spake ; and my poor name he named — " Of Me thou hast not been ashamed ; These deeds shall thy memorial be ; Fear not ! thou didst them unto me.
Page 89 - Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years ; And all that life is love. 4 There is a death, whose pang Outlasts the fleeting breath : O what eternal horrors hang Around the second death...
Page 346 - ... joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus.