Gentle Gertrude: A Tale for Youth

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Samuel Jones, 1843 - 174 pages

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Page 58 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 159 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 83 - Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto him, "Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Page 46 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Page 118 - Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him. How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria 1 for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 119 - And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine ; and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him ; Take care of him 5 and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 59 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give His holy Spirit to them that ask Him.
Page 71 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Page 77 - Guilt and darkness overcame my mind, and in sore agony of soul I went to a hay-loft, (the place is now perfectly in my recollection,) and there prayed and pleaded, with groanings that could not be uttered, for mercy and pardon. I entreated mercy, for Jesus' sake. With joy and transport I left the loft, from a believing application of the text, ' Thy sins that are many, are forgiven thee.
Page 80 - Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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