After Fifty Years, Or, Letters of a Grandfather: On Occasion of the Jubilee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1893T. Nelson, 1893 - 144 pages |
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Page 134 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 79 - I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, an what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Page 111 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 40 - I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them.
Page 107 - Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens — That Thou wouldst come down — That the mountains might flow down at Thy presence...
Page 23 - Are not .zeal for the honour of God, love to Jesus Christ, and desire of saving souls, your great motives and chief inducements to enter into the function of the holy ministry, and not worldly designs and interests ? 8.
Page 41 - He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt...
Page 65 - Night came on, and I asked where I was to sleep. He showed me a closet. The walls were damp — no fire could be put in it. I looked horrified at the place, but there was no better. 'Now,' said I,
Page 65 - A few inches above were the slates of the roof, without any covering, and as white with hoar frost within as they were white with snow without. When he came down the next morning after a sleepless night, I asked him how he had been, and he told me he had never closed an eye from the cold.
Page 105 - When he landed here in 1848 there were no Christians, when he left in 1872 there were no heathen.