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... human race derives its origin from God ! In that case the meanest worm is equally a reflection of the divine image . Some tell us that it is a mere accommodation of spiritual truths to our finite comprehension . Probably it should ...
... human race derives its origin from God ! In that case the meanest worm is equally a reflection of the divine image . Some tell us that it is a mere accommodation of spiritual truths to our finite comprehension . Probably it should ...
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... human imagination . The architecture of insects also supplies many curious anticipations of human contrivances . Successive generations of hardy fishermen bait their wicker " lobster pots ” on our shores , without a thought of ...
... human imagination . The architecture of insects also supplies many curious anticipations of human contrivances . Successive generations of hardy fishermen bait their wicker " lobster pots ” on our shores , without a thought of ...
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... human family . If stored , the moth destroys the one , as the mildew does the other . In all this we have a convincing proof of the harmony which exists between the moral and physical laws of the universe . " He who causes the grass to ...
... human family . If stored , the moth destroys the one , as the mildew does the other . In all this we have a convincing proof of the harmony which exists between the moral and physical laws of the universe . " He who causes the grass to ...
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... that lay across his path . No stone was that , although no stone could be colder or more lifeless . He stooped to touch it , and found a human body , half buried beneath a fresh drift of snow . The next moment 16 ANECDOTAL ILLUSTRATIONS .
... that lay across his path . No stone was that , although no stone could be colder or more lifeless . He stooped to touch it , and found a human body , half buried beneath a fresh drift of snow . The next moment 16 ANECDOTAL ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... HUMAN LIFE . ISAIAH xl . 6 . — “ The goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field . ” The Serpentine Aloe . — There is cultivated at Paris a species of serpentine aloe , whose large and beautiful flower does not blow till towards ...
... HUMAN LIFE . ISAIAH xl . 6 . — “ The goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field . ” The Serpentine Aloe . — There is cultivated at Paris a species of serpentine aloe , whose large and beautiful flower does not blow till towards ...
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Page 27 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Page 89 - AND he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward ; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Page 28 - So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee.
Page 20 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 180 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Page 166 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns : And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
Page 165 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Page 147 - And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Page 190 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 125 - Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.