A History of Grace Reformed Church Northampton, Pennsylvania

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Cement News Print, 1912 - 65 pages

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Page 29 - Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, Their Saviour and brethren, transported to greet ; While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul!
Page 57 - WITNESS, ye men and angels; now Before the Lord we speak ; To him we make our solemn vow, A vow we dare not break : 2 That,, long as life itself shall last, Ourselves to Christ we yield ; Nor from his cause will we depart, Or ever quit the field. 3 We trust not in our native strength, But on his grace rely, That, with returning wants, the Lord Will all our need supply.
Page 63 - And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Page 3 - To forget the past is to forget our mercies and to forget our mercies is to forget God. The tree must ever draw life from its roots ; the strength of a stream must ever be replenished from its fountains ; so is the nation and the church in the divine order, ever dependant for vitality and vigor on its past history.
Page 41 - THERE is no sweeter story told In all the blessed Book Than how the Lord within His arms The little children took. We love Him for the tender touch That made the leper whole, « And for the wondrous words that healed The weary sin-sick soul.
Page 65 - ... hearts and true: they are only gone into the next room ; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen. So Charles Lamb in his poem of " Hester" (stanza 7) : Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
Page 10 - In the fall of the same year he entered the Sophomore Class at Franklin and Marshall College.

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