The Morning of Life: A Memoir of Miss A---n, who was Educated for a Nun : with Many Interesting Particulars Concerning Dr. Doyle |
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... tried in vain ; how the priests had owned that neither they , nor their Church , could do any more for her ; and how , even then , as soon as she read the Bible , she received peace and joy . Why , " she thought , " do they not ...
... tried in vain ; how the priests had owned that neither they , nor their Church , could do any more for her ; and how , even then , as soon as she read the Bible , she received peace and joy . Why , " she thought , " do they not ...
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... tried to conceal her misery from those around her . Frequently she would leave the house , and choose a sequestered spot , where she might , un- disturbed , give freedom . give freedom to the bitter thoughts that occupied her mind ; she ...
... tried to conceal her misery from those around her . Frequently she would leave the house , and choose a sequestered spot , where she might , un- disturbed , give freedom . give freedom to the bitter thoughts that occupied her mind ; she ...
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... sister soon discovered the cause of this sorrow , and tried to apply a healing balm . Finding her efforts useless , she induced all her Christian friends in succession to visit her ; but , though they reasoned The Morning of Life . 43.
... sister soon discovered the cause of this sorrow , and tried to apply a healing balm . Finding her efforts useless , she induced all her Christian friends in succession to visit her ; but , though they reasoned The Morning of Life . 43.
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... tried to raise a subscription for them . The Presbyterian minister of the church . Bessie was in the habit of attending called on her , and interested her so much in the case , that she volunteered to become a collector for this ...
... tried to raise a subscription for them . The Presbyterian minister of the church . Bessie was in the habit of attending called on her , and interested her so much in the case , that she volunteered to become a collector for this ...
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... the convent , and often met priests , who disputed with her on the step she had taken , or tried to shake her confi- dence with awful warnings of the danger she was incurring . Sometimes the older nuns , or 52 The Morning of Life .
... the convent , and often met priests , who disputed with her on the step she had taken , or tried to shake her confi- dence with awful warnings of the danger she was incurring . Sometimes the older nuns , or 52 The Morning of Life .
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Page 119 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace, In the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Page 24 - Night is the time for toil ; To plough the classic field, Intent to find the buried spoil Its wealthy furrows yield ; Till all is ours that sages taught, That poets sang or heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years ; • Hopes that were Angels in their birth, But perished young, like things of earth...
Page 101 - Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear! Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above!
Page 136 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 113 - THERE is an hour of peaceful rest, To mourning wanderers given ; There is a joy for souls distressed, A balm for every wounded breast : 'Tis found above — in heaven.
Page 26 - ... and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Page 22 - Woe unto you that are full ! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Page 126 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Page 113 - There fragrant flowers immortal bloom, And joys supreme are given; There rays divine disperse the gloom: Beyond the confines of the tomb Appears the dawn of heaven.
Page 111 - I know whom I have believed, and that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.