Gift for the Holidays

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American Sunday-school union, 1840 - Children - 175 pages

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Page 172 - My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Page 173 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 173 - Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a nuil ti tude that kept hoh/day.
Page 172 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Page 12 - He strongly deprecated all undue anxiety about providing for the wants of the body, pointing out to his hearers God's especial care of the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field...
Page 166 - ... give content, do whatever I will. To complete my misfortune, sometimes, in a sally, He throws me as hard as he can at his valet, Who ventures to give him his scurvy advice, To have nothing to do with those villainous dice. T'other night he declar'd he would do for himself, And took down a pistol which lay on the shelf; But after he'd held it some time to his head, He thought better on't, and bethump'd me instead.
Page 166 - it 's my turn to speak : If I let you alone, you'll go on for a week. Since you say that with you he's as light as a feather, Pray keep him, or come to bed always together ; For the moment you're off, such a trade then commences, You'd think he was fairly bereft of his senses : Such complaining, such sorrow, repentance, and hate, Such cursing his fortune, such damning his fate, That, taking in Bedlam, there is not in town A Pillow whose state I'd not change with my own. The night...
Page 38 - This my son, or this my daughter, was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." But perhaps you reply: "My parents and friends are altogether unacquainted with religion; they live careless of God, and have taught me to do the same." Alas ! if this is the case, it is a lamentable one ; yet perhaps youthful piety might render you profitable to them. Do you love them, and can you...
Page 166 - ... he had won, Such an easy, good-temper'd, sweet smile he put on ! What with dancing, and singing, and laughing, and drinking, You'd wonder what time he had left him for thinking. If he wins, if he loses, he's glad, and still glad ; I cannot believe he knows how to be sad. "With such mental controul, and a heart so at ease, Sure never was found a man form'd so to please."

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