Congratulations and counsels, a book for birthdaysWard & Company, 1848 - 101 pages |
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... peace , " and his purposes full of rich love and mercy . Wondrous thought ! your history com- menced countless ages before your actual being ; for all who are united unto the Saviour in time , were chosen in him before the foundation of ...
... peace , " and his purposes full of rich love and mercy . Wondrous thought ! your history com- menced countless ages before your actual being ; for all who are united unto the Saviour in time , were chosen in him before the foundation of ...
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... peace can gild with gentle ray , The scenes which sin has made forlorn . When earth became transgression's prey , God did not take the rose away , He did but add the thorn . " THE BIRTHDAY IMPROVED . WHILE Some abuse and others neglect ...
... peace can gild with gentle ray , The scenes which sin has made forlorn . When earth became transgression's prey , God did not take the rose away , He did but add the thorn . " THE BIRTHDAY IMPROVED . WHILE Some abuse and others neglect ...
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... peaceful , full of good humour and kindness ; and you will most likely have a happy mother . Or is it your father's birthday that you have been celebrating . Think , how can a praying father be happy , unless his children pray also ...
... peaceful , full of good humour and kindness ; and you will most likely have a happy mother . Or is it your father's birthday that you have been celebrating . Think , how can a praying father be happy , unless his children pray also ...
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... peace and hope around , When wisdom bade him hence remove : you it seems a darksome cloud , То Which doth Jehovah's conduct shroud . But glory soon shall gloom disperse , And then God's reasons all displayed ; You shall his righteous ...
... peace and hope around , When wisdom bade him hence remove : you it seems a darksome cloud , То Which doth Jehovah's conduct shroud . But glory soon shall gloom disperse , And then God's reasons all displayed ; You shall his righteous ...
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... peaceful retirement , and prayer- ful preparation for the great change which awaited him . My aged friends , I pray you imitate him , do not go on delving and mining in this poor earth , till exhausted from very feebleness , you gasp ...
... peaceful retirement , and prayer- ful preparation for the great change which awaited him . My aged friends , I pray you imitate him , do not go on delving and mining in this poor earth , till exhausted from very feebleness , you gasp ...
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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.