Conversations on the Bible: Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School UnionT.R. Marvin, 1829 - 112 pages |
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... began to be cold and stormy , it was decided to discontinue the Sabbath school during the winter months . The reason given was , that the scholars , especially the small children , could not conveniently come over the bleak hills ...
... began to be cold and stormy , it was decided to discontinue the Sabbath school during the winter months . The reason given was , that the scholars , especially the small children , could not conveniently come over the bleak hills ...
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... began to descend a bill ; and in the valley below , .hey saw a brook running very rapidly over rocks and sands . When they came to the brook , they found that in many places the rocks were decayed and crumbling , and the banks had ...
... began to descend a bill ; and in the valley below , .hey saw a brook running very rapidly over rocks and sands . When they came to the brook , they found that in many places the rocks were decayed and crumbling , and the banks had ...
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... began to walk slow- ly along by the shore of the pond . They continued talking as follows : - Teacher . It is : - in the same way that they make calcu- lations from the mouth of the Nile , to prove about how old the world is . Some men ...
... began to walk slow- ly along by the shore of the pond . They continued talking as follows : - Teacher . It is : - in the same way that they make calcu- lations from the mouth of the Nile , to prove about how old the world is . Some men ...
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... began to labor for their bread . After some time , their children , and their children's children , became very nu- merous , and filled all this country , ( pointing to the coun- try around Eden . ) These persons were , however , of ...
... began to labor for their bread . After some time , their children , and their children's children , became very nu- merous , and filled all this country , ( pointing to the coun- try around Eden . ) These persons were , however , of ...
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... began to be peopled again by the children of Noah . You remember their attempt to build Babel , and the manner in which God prevented it . They separated at Babel , and were scattered over all the countries then known . They continued ...
... began to be peopled again by the children of Noah . You remember their attempt to build Babel , and the manner in which God prevented it . They separated at Babel , and were scattered over all the countries then known . They continued ...
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Page 72 - 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 ? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page ii - AD 1829, in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, CHRISTOPHER C. DEAN, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit : — " Conversations on the Bible. Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union. By Erodore.
Page i - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the...
Page 63 - THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Page 51 - God, they counted but twelve tribes, and made but twelve lots. For the tribe of Levi, which was appointed to the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, had no share in the distribution of the land, but only some cities to dwell in, and the first-fruits, tithes, and oblations of the people, which was all their subsistence, Numb.
Page 27 - ... had ordered to accompany us, as to prepare our retinue and our cattle, for the fatigue they were to suffer during the rest of our journey ; for though we could not perform it in less...
Page 51 - TRIBE. Jacob having twelve sons, who were heads of so many families, which together formed a great nation, each of these families was called a tribe. But this patriarch on his death-bed adopted Ephraim and Manasseh, the two sons of Joseph, and would have them also to constitute two tribes in Israel, Gen.
Page 78 - ... to other points of doctrinal or practical importance. Thus when discoursing with the Sadducees on the subject of a future life, he traced their error of opinion to their ignorance of Scripture, and then confuted them by citing a passage from the book of Exodus : Matt. xxii, 32. Again, when the Jews accused him of blasphemy, because he said he was the Son of God. he silenced their cavils by an appeal to the Sacred Volume, and added an emphatic and most important declaration: " The Scripture cannot...
Page ii - In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during tne times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, entitled, '* An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the...
Page 27 - ... March, 1751, with an escort of the best Arab horsemen belonging to the aga, armed with guns and long pikes; and having crossed a barren plain, which scarcely produces vegetables sufficient to feed the antelopes we saw there, we arrived at Sudud. This is a small village inhabited by Maronite Christians : the houses are built of bricks dried in the sun; and the inhabitants cultivate as much land around the village as is barely sufficient for their subsistence ; they also make tolerable good wine....