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... tion , but in a like degree was the sacrifice a source of consolatory reflection , when their minds were brought to the test of the inquiry whether they had fulfilled the Divine injunctions laid upon them . In the performance of the ...
... tion , but in a like degree was the sacrifice a source of consolatory reflection , when their minds were brought to the test of the inquiry whether they had fulfilled the Divine injunctions laid upon them . In the performance of the ...
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... tion takes place in the spring ; this giving a stimulus when most needed . The effect is most visible on a poor soil , -eight acres sowed plentifully with it without other manure , in five years became , says P. Price , " worth ten ...
... tion takes place in the spring ; this giving a stimulus when most needed . The effect is most visible on a poor soil , -eight acres sowed plentifully with it without other manure , in five years became , says P. Price , " worth ten ...
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... tion to her Creator , brings her upon a perfect equality with man , and the history of the Society of Friends has been adorned with many instances in which woman has excelled in the powers of persuasive conviction and true religious ...
... tion to her Creator , brings her upon a perfect equality with man , and the history of the Society of Friends has been adorned with many instances in which woman has excelled in the powers of persuasive conviction and true religious ...
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... tion depend . Wm . Penn recognised it as a great end of government " to support power in reverence with the peo- ple , and to secure the people from the abuse of power . " Our civil institutions are habitually recognised by the Society ...
... tion depend . Wm . Penn recognised it as a great end of government " to support power in reverence with the peo- ple , and to secure the people from the abuse of power . " Our civil institutions are habitually recognised by the Society ...
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... tion ; but I have been for the most part easier about home than I could have expected , having so fully given all up to Best Protection and Direction , that I sometimes can but wonder that my mind is so relieved from anxiety about you ...
... tion ; but I have been for the most part easier about home than I could have expected , having so fully given all up to Best Protection and Direction , that I sometimes can but wonder that my mind is so relieved from anxiety about you ...
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Popular passages
Page 127 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, 0 Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach...
Page 55 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ; Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 72 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 72 - In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.
Page 116 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 90 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 44 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 89 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 159 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you; and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Page 99 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.