 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1883 - 648 pages
...but I can not resist a desire to quote this passage from Charles Dickens's last will and testament: " I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour. Jesus Christ; ana I exhort my dear children to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its... | |
 | Bible - 1884 - 960 pages
...speaks of the will which Charles Dickens left, and among other quotations from it makes the following: " I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord...Christ; and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching ot the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1884 - 362 pages
...have never abandoned it myself, and I know the comfort of it. — CHARLES DICKENS (letter to his son). I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord...Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament, in its broad spirit, and to put no faith... | |
 | Bible - 1884 - 868 pages
...of the will which Charles Dickens left, and among other quotations from it makes the following : " I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord...Christ ; and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching ot the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - Adventure stories, English - 1885 - 630 pages
...made proclamation of this from the housetops." At the end of his last will and testament he says : " I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our...Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith... | |
 | George Edward Jeans - Sermons, English - 1886 - 146 pages
...est finis nisi pervenire ad regnum cuius nullus est finis? (S. AUGUSTINE, " De Civ. Dei," ad fin.} I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord...Christ^ and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit^ and to put no faith in... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - 1886 - 580 pages
...sermon, will recall to many minds a similar one in the will of Shakespeare : — DICKENS. " I commend my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." SHAKESPEARE. "I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing,... | |
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - Novelists, English - 1887 - 208 pages
...put the Bible into simpler language for their use. In his will, dated May 12, 1869, he had said, " I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord...Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the broad teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith... | |
 | James Herman Whitmore - 1888 - 812 pages
...promise of the Holy Spirit which he made to his disciples. CHARLES DICKENS. [LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.] I COMMIT my soul to the mercy of God, through our...Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testament. FREDERICK W. FARRAR. [THE LIFE OF CHRIST.... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - Authors, English - 1889 - 506 pages
...dated the 12th of May, 1869, would forever remain an emphatic testimony to his Christian faith : — " I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our...Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humhly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testament." I wish it were in my power... | |
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I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction... 
