When shall these Things be? Or Signs of the last timesJames Nisbet & Company, 1868 - 414 pages |
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... less satisfy , the yearnings of man's great soul . " The depth saith , It is not in me , and the sea saith , It is not in me . " Imperfection and inadequacy are felt in every created thing on which man tries to set his heart . Decay ...
... less satisfy , the yearnings of man's great soul . " The depth saith , It is not in me , and the sea saith , It is not in me . " Imperfection and inadequacy are felt in every created thing on which man tries to set his heart . Decay ...
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... less dreary because of the light that lies on the other side , till weary with the vain things of earth , and attracted by the great things of heaven , we cry with the son of Jesse , " Oh that we too had wings like a dove that we might ...
... less dreary because of the light that lies on the other side , till weary with the vain things of earth , and attracted by the great things of heaven , we cry with the son of Jesse , " Oh that we too had wings like a dove that we might ...
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... less end , its sorrow - it yearns and wails for the arrival of something very different . The cold shadow of the curse projected from paradise lost lies upon its bosom , and chills its very heart , and all the brilliant discoveries of ...
... less end , its sorrow - it yearns and wails for the arrival of something very different . The cold shadow of the curse projected from paradise lost lies upon its bosom , and chills its very heart , and all the brilliant discoveries of ...
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... less Christian to conserve and perpetuate them ; if they be the fruits of this religion , like all its fruits they shall have an amaranthine life , and wear an imperish- able glory . Natural ties , the ties of parent , of child , of ...
... less Christian to conserve and perpetuate them ; if they be the fruits of this religion , like all its fruits they shall have an amaranthine life , and wear an imperish- able glory . Natural ties , the ties of parent , of child , of ...
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... less near events are signs . What we adduce as their fulfilment and illustration de- serves our earnest study , and indeed demands it . There is a height above the world , which if a saint attain he finds himself on a scaffold ; and ...
... less near events are signs . What we adduce as their fulfilment and illustration de- serves our earnest study , and indeed demands it . There is a height above the world , which if a saint attain he finds himself on a scaffold ; and ...
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