Fireside readings for happy homesHaughton & Company, 1882 - 382 pages |
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... become hoary in his Master's service , and one of those singular characters both loved and feared by several that knew him , for reasons they still re- member . He was by trade a flannel - weaver ; steadi- ness and industry , in early ...
... become hoary in his Master's service , and one of those singular characters both loved and feared by several that knew him , for reasons they still re- member . He was by trade a flannel - weaver ; steadi- ness and industry , in early ...
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... become plain , and the glorious secrets of eternity will at last unfold themselves to our admiring eyes . Flattery . Many persons mistake flattery for friendship , and regard candor as a mark of ill - will . The flatterer praises to ...
... become plain , and the glorious secrets of eternity will at last unfold themselves to our admiring eyes . Flattery . Many persons mistake flattery for friendship , and regard candor as a mark of ill - will . The flatterer praises to ...
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... become restive under restraint , provoked at reproof , impatient of dictation , and finally cut themselves loose from their moorings , and sail , unfitted and unfurnished , to shipwreck and to death ; while their well - meaning parents ...
... become restive under restraint , provoked at reproof , impatient of dictation , and finally cut themselves loose from their moorings , and sail , unfitted and unfurnished , to shipwreck and to death ; while their well - meaning parents ...
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... become stale before Friday evening , but I always relished it when I re- collected that " Mother made it . " I am now so far advanced in life that my friends begin to call me old . But I have not lived long enough to learn why I should ...
... become stale before Friday evening , but I always relished it when I re- collected that " Mother made it . " I am now so far advanced in life that my friends begin to call me old . But I have not lived long enough to learn why I should ...
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... become a good Latin and Greek scholar , and entered the uni- versity at Glasgow ; where he received several prizes for his remarkable attainments ; but what was gain to him he counted loss for Christ , and gave himself to the service of ...
... become a good Latin and Greek scholar , and entered the uni- versity at Glasgow ; where he received several prizes for his remarkable attainments ; but what was gain to him he counted loss for Christ , and gave himself to the service of ...
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Page 64 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 331 - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 199 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 135 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
Page 163 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 211 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Page 212 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 368 - Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 132 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 112 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.