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... your warm fireside , when the lamps are lighted , To have my place reserved among the rest , Nor stand as one unsought and uninvited . JANUARY , 1854 . CONTENTS . PAGE CHAPTER I. A PILGRIM FATHER 1 CHAPTER vi PREFACE .
... your warm fireside , when the lamps are lighted , To have my place reserved among the rest , Nor stand as one unsought and uninvited . JANUARY , 1854 . CONTENTS . PAGE CHAPTER I. A PILGRIM FATHER 1 CHAPTER vi PREFACE .
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... CHAPTER VI . A CITY MISSIONARY . · 87 CHAPTER VII . SCARCELY SAVED 105 CHAPTER VIII . THE LOST WIFE 122 CHAPTER IX . THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH • 138 CHAPTER X. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE 155 A MOTHER THE WANDERER'S CRY CHAPTER XI . CHAPTER ...
... CHAPTER VI . A CITY MISSIONARY . · 87 CHAPTER VII . SCARCELY SAVED 105 CHAPTER VIII . THE LOST WIFE 122 CHAPTER IX . THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH • 138 CHAPTER X. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE 155 A MOTHER THE WANDERER'S CRY CHAPTER XI . CHAPTER ...
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... CHAPTER XII . • CHAPTER XIII . 170 187 THE SARACENS AND HAGARENES • 202 CHAPTER XIV . THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH 218 CHAPTER XV . REBEKAH'S WEDDING . · 237 CHAPTER XVI . THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE • • 255 CHAPTER XVII WEARY OF LIFE 274 ...
... CHAPTER XII . • CHAPTER XIII . 170 187 THE SARACENS AND HAGARENES • 202 CHAPTER XIV . THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH 218 CHAPTER XV . REBEKAH'S WEDDING . · 237 CHAPTER XVI . THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE • • 255 CHAPTER XVII WEARY OF LIFE 274 ...
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... wherein ye now dwell . And he gave him none inheritance in it , no , not so much as to set his foot on : yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession , and to his seed after 1 CHAPTER I A PILGRIM FATHER.
... wherein ye now dwell . And he gave him none inheritance in it , no , not so much as to set his foot on : yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession , and to his seed after 1 CHAPTER I A PILGRIM FATHER.
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... chapter : " As it is written , I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed , even God , who quickeneth the dead , and calleth those things which be not as though they were . Who , " that is , Abraham ...
... chapter : " As it is written , I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed , even God , who quickeneth the dead , and calleth those things which be not as though they were . Who , " that is , Abraham ...
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Page 202 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 142 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 143 - Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 138 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said ; That in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 70 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men...
Page 353 - 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...
Page 109 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 108 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and...
Page 64 - Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors: Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 2 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, " In thee shall all nations be blessed.