Christian sunsets; or, The last hours of believers1877 |
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... instructions and generosity , and her death , twenty - five years ago , was long a matter of wide lamentation . Queen Adelaide was the daughter of the Duke of Saxe - Meiningen , one of the smallest states at the time in Europe . Losing ...
... instructions and generosity , and her death , twenty - five years ago , was long a matter of wide lamentation . Queen Adelaide was the daughter of the Duke of Saxe - Meiningen , one of the smallest states at the time in Europe . Losing ...
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... instruction and salvation . On the 3rd of November , 1849 , she was married to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg , a thoroughly Christian man , and one there- fore who was in fullest sympathy with the Princess in all the holiest feelings ...
... instruction and salvation . On the 3rd of November , 1849 , she was married to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg , a thoroughly Christian man , and one there- fore who was in fullest sympathy with the Princess in all the holiest feelings ...
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... instruction and encouragement ; and when she had said all that she could for their comfort , and charging them to meet her in heaven , she calmly breathed her spirit into the arms of her manifested and waiting Lord . The scene of those ...
... instruction and encouragement ; and when she had said all that she could for their comfort , and charging them to meet her in heaven , she calmly breathed her spirit into the arms of her manifested and waiting Lord . The scene of those ...
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... instruction employed in the seminary of which he was a member . An extensive course of polemical lectures is delivered by the tutor , the Rev. Dr. Smith , of whose excellence and erudition the writer might be tempted to speak , were he ...
... instruction employed in the seminary of which he was a member . An extensive course of polemical lectures is delivered by the tutor , the Rev. Dr. Smith , of whose excellence and erudition the writer might be tempted to speak , were he ...
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... instructions , and the prayerful interest he manifested in him , to give a more earnest consideration to the claims of religion than he had ever done , and to fully dedicate himself to God . servant . His younger sister , to whom he was ...
... instructions , and the prayerful interest he manifested in him , to give a more earnest consideration to the claims of religion than he had ever done , and to fully dedicate himself to God . servant . His younger sister , to whom he was ...
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Page 378 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all.
Page 45 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 278 - So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 1 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 313 - He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Page 419 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 185 - Were I to adopt the figurative language of Bunyan I might date this letter from the land of Beulah, of which I have been for some weeks a happy inhabitant. The celestial city is full in my view. Its glories beam upon me, its breezes fan me, its odors are wafted to me, its sounds strike upon my ears, and its spirit is breathed into my heart.
Page 12 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 223 - Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord ; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Page 304 - JUST as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come.