Congratulations and counsels, a book for birthdaysWard & Company, 1848 - 101 pages |
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... kind providence . If such family festivals are kept within due bounds , and mingled with gratitude to God , they should be encouraged rather than otherwise . They strengthen the bonds of social love , endear the different parts of a ...
... kind providence . If such family festivals are kept within due bounds , and mingled with gratitude to God , they should be encouraged rather than otherwise . They strengthen the bonds of social love , endear the different parts of a ...
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... kind providence . If such family festivals are kept within due bounds , and mingled with gratitude to God , they should be encouraged rather than otherwise . They strengthen the bonds of social love , endear the different parts of a ...
... kind providence . If such family festivals are kept within due bounds , and mingled with gratitude to God , they should be encouraged rather than otherwise . They strengthen the bonds of social love , endear the different parts of a ...
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... kind counsel . On this day , when your thoughts are more especially fixed upon your parents , and when you naturally re- gard them with more than your usual affection , it will be well for you to consider the deep obligations you are ...
... kind counsel . On this day , when your thoughts are more especially fixed upon your parents , and when you naturally re- gard them with more than your usual affection , it will be well for you to consider the deep obligations you are ...
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... kind- ness . Brothers and sisters can do something to soothe the sufferer's pain , and to make the long hours pass away more pleasantly . On the birthday of the afflicted one , let some extra tokens of affection prove that you do not ...
... kind- ness . Brothers and sisters can do something to soothe the sufferer's pain , and to make the long hours pass away more pleasantly . On the birthday of the afflicted one , let some extra tokens of affection prove that you do not ...
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... kind office in their power ; and , above all , seek grace to tread in their steps . Suppose , dear reader , that your dying hour was come , have you , like Jacob , a Bethel scene to look back upon ? Did you ever meet with God in Christ ...
... kind office in their power ; and , above all , seek grace to tread in their steps . Suppose , dear reader , that your dying hour was come , have you , like Jacob , a Bethel scene to look back upon ? Did you ever meet with God in Christ ...
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Page 15 - New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray — New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Page 57 - Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Page 50 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 6 - For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
Page 52 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 37 - I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Page 76 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 31 - Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 65 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 11 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.