Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 1Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads J. Tatum., 1848 A religious, literary and miscellaneous journal. |
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... felt melted and bowed before my Creator . " After her return home , she resumed her usual habits of visiting and relieving the poor , and especially the sick , reading the Bible to them , and instructing their children . She had some ...
... felt melted and bowed before my Creator . " After her return home , she resumed her usual habits of visiting and relieving the poor , and especially the sick , reading the Bible to them , and instructing their children . She had some ...
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... felt and acknowledged . She endeavoured to discharge them as one who must give an account , desiring that to every one she might do as she would be done unto . ripening on her mind , " for the last few weeks , and even months . I had so ...
... felt and acknowledged . She endeavoured to discharge them as one who must give an account , desiring that to every one she might do as she would be done unto . ripening on her mind , " for the last few weeks , and even months . I had so ...
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... felt called to labour . He was acquired , in a remarkable degree , the esteem often discouraged , but , to use his own expres- and entire confidence of the family in which sion , an irresistible power impelled him , and he he resided ...
... felt called to labour . He was acquired , in a remarkable degree , the esteem often discouraged , but , to use his own expres- and entire confidence of the family in which sion , an irresistible power impelled him , and he he resided ...
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... felt that he suffer- ed for his Master and for the sake of his cause , and this gave him strength to bear what was extremely painful to his affectionate disposition . In the year 1791 , after this period of confu- sion , he visited ...
... felt that he suffer- ed for his Master and for the sake of his cause , and this gave him strength to bear what was extremely painful to his affectionate disposition . In the year 1791 , after this period of confu- sion , he visited ...
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... felt to put up the earnest petition on her be- half ; " even , " she said , " that my faith may not fail , but that faith and patience may hold out to the end , that patience may be renewed accord- ing to my need . My state of weakness ...
... felt to put up the earnest petition on her be- half ; " even , " she said , " that my faith may not fail , but that faith and patience may hold out to the end , that patience may be renewed accord- ing to my need . My state of weakness ...
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Page 434 - He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Page 185 - I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 57 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 303 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 159 - The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.
Page 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Page 336 - And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 105 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 86 - And instead of this there is not a moment of any day of our lives when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty that it is quite certain it is all done for us and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Page 136 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.