Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home CirclePriv. print., 1923 - 381 pages |
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... carried me into closer relations with Middle- town life . In a limited extent I had known something of the rare standing and cultivation of its social circles while a Divinity Student . Admitted to the staff of the historic Parish , my ...
... carried me into closer relations with Middle- town life . In a limited extent I had known something of the rare standing and cultivation of its social circles while a Divinity Student . Admitted to the staff of the historic Parish , my ...
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... carry the sooth- ing power of the Church , even to the point of singing her favorite hymn asked for a thing , which in my in- eptitude " to raise a tune , " I have never otherwise ven- tured upon before or since . And there were humors ...
... carry the sooth- ing power of the Church , even to the point of singing her favorite hymn asked for a thing , which in my in- eptitude " to raise a tune , " I have never otherwise ven- tured upon before or since . And there were humors ...
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... was familiar , but beyond that very little of our available hymns . And the hearty rendering of that with a high shrill female voice carrying each line in a solo followed THE BRIDE , 1876 UNIL OF CH . by a [ 46 ] DAYS OF MY AGE.
... was familiar , but beyond that very little of our available hymns . And the hearty rendering of that with a high shrill female voice carrying each line in a solo followed THE BRIDE , 1876 UNIL OF CH . by a [ 46 ] DAYS OF MY AGE.
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... carrying Divinity School assets into a capitalization current for human nature as the " parson in circuit " finds it , not only in his parishioners but in his very human self . The latter is apt to be the real " rub " after all , and ...
... carrying Divinity School assets into a capitalization current for human nature as the " parson in circuit " finds it , not only in his parishioners but in his very human self . The latter is apt to be the real " rub " after all , and ...
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... carry out the policy of a missionary parish and a parochial city mis- sion . In succession the following Assistants loyally and efficiently served with me : The Rev. W. M. Chapin ; the Rev. Robert Hudson ; the Rev. William H. Moreland ...
... carry out the policy of a missionary parish and a parochial city mis- sion . In succession the following Assistants loyally and efficiently served with me : The Rev. W. M. Chapin ; the Rev. Robert Hudson ; the Rev. William H. Moreland ...
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Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home Circle William Ford Nichols No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 315 - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy seven-fold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight.
Page 224 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 33 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow...
Page 372 - God, hast taught me from my youth up until now ; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
Page 340 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesns Christ ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Page 325 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 329 - Thou waterest her furrows: thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness...
Page 267 - Nova Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Page 311 - And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient 'of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 298 - Together with all and singular, the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; to have and to hold the above described goods and chattels, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, forever.