Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volume 3James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1855 |
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Page 280 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Page 314 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 127 - And the hand of the Lord was with them : and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Page 127 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Page 119 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 200 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 52 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 376 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 121 - In glory of the Father, to dissolve Satan with his perverted World; then raise From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, New Heavens, new Earth, Ages of endless date Founded in righteousness and peace and love, To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Page 121 - Rarely be found. So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just, And vengeance to the wicked, at return Of him so lately...