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Page 89
... fancy they will be perfectly happy when they retire from business and settle in the country ; and what a comment upon such fancies is the fashion in which retired men of business often haunt the places of their former toils like unquiet ...
... fancy they will be perfectly happy when they retire from business and settle in the country ; and what a comment upon such fancies is the fashion in which retired men of business often haunt the places of their former toils like unquiet ...
Page 95
... fancy that things would not go on exactly the same without us as with us . But this world has never seen more than one Being who could think , and who could say with truth to those connected with Him , that it was absolutely impossible ...
... fancy that things would not go on exactly the same without us as with us . But this world has never seen more than one Being who could think , and who could say with truth to those connected with Him , that it was absolutely impossible ...
Page 96
... fancy so for a while , but at length we shall find that we were mistaken ; we may indeed miss our absent friends sadly and long , but we shall come at last to do without them . And so it would have been presumption and igno- rance for ...
... fancy so for a while , but at length we shall find that we were mistaken ; we may indeed miss our absent friends sadly and long , but we shall come at last to do without them . And so it would have been presumption and igno- rance for ...
Page 111
... fancy that they can do without Christ , perhaps , while they are in the bustle of their life , when they can be interested in life's business , and enjoy life's com- forts and pleasures ; but oh ! what is business , what is pleasure ...
... fancy that they can do without Christ , perhaps , while they are in the bustle of their life , when they can be interested in life's business , and enjoy life's com- forts and pleasures ; but oh ! what is business , what is pleasure ...
Page 114
... fancy that away from those dear ones who are think- ing of him at home he never can go on in the dreary routine of life , that " without them he can do noth- ing ! " But after a while , in the bustle of his new life , these morbid ...
... fancy that away from those dear ones who are think- ing of him at home he never can go on in the dreary routine of life , that " without them he can do noth- ing ! " But after a while , in the bustle of his new life , these morbid ...
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Page 123 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 133 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Page 272 - Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more : Too common ! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Page 181 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 206 - And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel ? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
Page 147 - Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 276 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 137 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Page 186 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.