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Page 18
How sad , if he should gain ever so much , even the whole world , and yet lose
his own soul ! How sad , if he should grow richer for this life , but poorer for
eternity ! Again , when a servant chooses a fresh situation , is he not apt to
measure the ...
How sad , if he should gain ever so much , even the whole world , and yet lose
his own soul ! How sad , if he should grow richer for this life , but poorer for
eternity ! Again , when a servant chooses a fresh situation , is he not apt to
measure the ...
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For though God can keep us anywhere by His Holy Spirit , and can bless us even
without the ordinary means of grace , still if we have wilfully turned our backs
upon His blessings , we must expect that our souls will suffer loss , and we shall ...
For though God can keep us anywhere by His Holy Spirit , and can bless us even
without the ordinary means of grace , still if we have wilfully turned our backs
upon His blessings , we must expect that our souls will suffer loss , and we shall ...
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... and whose state you have often wept over with the bitterest sorrow , and for
whom you have offered up many an earnest prayer , then try another meea thod .
Try to win that soul by your example D 3 THE FAREWELL . 29 learnt much, I dare
...
... and whose state you have often wept over with the bitterest sorrow , and for
whom you have offered up many an earnest prayer , then try another meea thod .
Try to win that soul by your example D 3 THE FAREWELL . 29 learnt much, I dare
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Try to win that soul by your example . Try to draw him gently by this means into
that happy path , which you yourself have found to be the path of peace . The
time was now come , when Naomi felt very anxious to return to her native country
.
Try to win that soul by your example . Try to draw him gently by this means into
that happy path , which you yourself have found to be the path of peace . The
time was now come , when Naomi felt very anxious to return to her native country
.
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Pleasures may amuse you ; friends may comfort you ; the busy employments of
life may occupy you ; but these cannot satisfy a soul that has once been lifted up
to God . In His service alone there is peace now ; and n His presence there will
be ...
Pleasures may amuse you ; friends may comfort you ; the busy employments of
life may occupy you ; but these cannot satisfy a soul that has once been lifted up
to God . In His service alone there is peace now ; and n His presence there will
be ...
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Page 123 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 34 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 58 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 43 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me...
Page 120 - Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.
Page 21 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 62 - ... It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 60 - And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
Page 124 - And if the man like not to take •his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 128 - Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The story of Ruth |
| Author | Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) |
| Edition | 3 |
| Published | 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2006 |
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