The Home Missionary, Volumes 18-20

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Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, 1845
No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.

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Page 61 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 204 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 278 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 39 - ... the wilderness and the solitary place may be glad for them, and the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose!
Page 121 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 138 - Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound : that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 17 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 226 - My people hath been lost sheep : their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their, resting place.
Page 285 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 6 - We wander to and fro hopelessly through the wilderness of doubt ; and if any come to tell us of a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands...

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