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... look steadfastly solemn ; our faces elongate ; our voices assume an indescribable tone , something between a sigh and a moan . All vivacity , spright- liness , originality , die out . A stranger would take Christianity to be a very ...
... look steadfastly solemn ; our faces elongate ; our voices assume an indescribable tone , something between a sigh and a moan . All vivacity , spright- liness , originality , die out . A stranger would take Christianity to be a very ...
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... look from our faces . We sometimes fancy that , because God looks at the heart , he does not look at anything else . We have positive proof that he does . The question to Cain was not only , " Why art thou wroth ? " but , " Why is thy ...
... look from our faces . We sometimes fancy that , because God looks at the heart , he does not look at anything else . We have positive proof that he does . The question to Cain was not only , " Why art thou wroth ? " but , " Why is thy ...
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... look is alone fitting . I deprecate the flippancy and thoughtlessness with which the most terrible denunciations of the New Testament are sometimes uttered , as much as I do the lugubrious cadences with which its sweetest and tenderest ...
... look is alone fitting . I deprecate the flippancy and thoughtlessness with which the most terrible denunciations of the New Testament are sometimes uttered , as much as I do the lugubrious cadences with which its sweetest and tenderest ...
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... look a look of love , we smile a smile of hope , we breathe a word of prayer , we pass by on the other side , and a soul plumes its wings for heaven , or plunges into the depths , and we know it not . Who is sufficient for these things ...
... look a look of love , we smile a smile of hope , we breathe a word of prayer , we pass by on the other side , and a soul plumes its wings for heaven , or plunges into the depths , and we know it not . Who is sufficient for these things ...
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... look gratefully back over all the way which the Lord our God hath led us , and trustfully forward through all the future till the end come . But often we baffle these designs . We spend our Sunday in what I can call nothing but relig ...
... look gratefully back over all the way which the Lord our God hath led us , and trustfully forward through all the future till the end come . But often we baffle these designs . We spend our Sunday in what I can call nothing but relig ...
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Page 195 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those tilings which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Page 380 - Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 379 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 403 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Page 244 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up : for God is able to make him stand.
Page 237 - The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day...
Page 224 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Page 244 - But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Page 405 - THE Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock ; in him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My saviour ; thou savest me from violence.
Page 374 - For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.