Sermons to ChildrenAmerican Unitarian Association, 1868 - 412 pages |
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... gave it all that quiet and gentle light ? Then there is the multitude of stars , twinkling over your heads like so many lamps burning up in a grand arch . But almost every child knows that they are not lamps 6 SERMONS TO CHILDREN .
... gave it all that quiet and gentle light ? Then there is the multitude of stars , twinkling over your heads like so many lamps burning up in a grand arch . But almost every child knows that they are not lamps 6 SERMONS TO CHILDREN .
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... star is a sun ; and it seems like a lamp , only because it is so far away from you . So , when you see the twinkling stars , you see mighty suns . There they certainly are , shining gloriously like our own sun , and very probably giving ...
... star is a sun ; and it seems like a lamp , only because it is so far away from you . So , when you see the twinkling stars , you see mighty suns . There they certainly are , shining gloriously like our own sun , and very probably giving ...
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... stars may speak comfortably to you , in the same manner . But , my children , it is not only these high and ... star . For my own part , I would as soon undertake to make a magnificent starry world , and hang it up , 8 SERMONS TO CHILDREN .
... stars may speak comfortably to you , in the same manner . But , my children , it is not only these high and ... star . For my own part , I would as soon undertake to make a magnificent starry world , and hang it up , 8 SERMONS TO CHILDREN .
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... to me now , - for those souls are even more wonderfully made than your bodies , or than the stars of the sky . Or , if they are not more wonder- - ful , they are certainly more important to each one SERMONS TO CHILDREN . 9.
... to me now , - for those souls are even more wonderfully made than your bodies , or than the stars of the sky . Or , if they are not more wonder- - ful , they are certainly more important to each one SERMONS TO CHILDREN . 9.
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... stars shining to his praise , and the grass springing , and the flow- ers blowing on his own earth , and all crea- tures enjoying the life which he gave them , he is more pleased to see the soul of a child shining with the light of ...
... stars shining to his praise , and the grass springing , and the flow- ers blowing on his own earth , and all crea- tures enjoying the life which he gave them , he is more pleased to see the soul of a child shining with the light of ...
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Page 126 - Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Page 97 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Page 126 - I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried ; the third day he rose again from the dead...
Page 88 - OH ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain.
Page 71 - And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Page 28 - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me, Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Page 130 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 100 - Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Page 130 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
Page 130 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord tl1 God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work...