Lectures to Working Men. Third Series1859 |
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... heart is open who has a heart at all ; every one's purse is open whether he has a purse or no . This is the sunny side of Christmas ; he is a jolly old fellow , and he tries hard to dry up tears and quiet sighs , and clear up storms ...
... heart is open who has a heart at all ; every one's purse is open whether he has a purse or no . This is the sunny side of Christmas ; he is a jolly old fellow , and he tries hard to dry up tears and quiet sighs , and clear up storms ...
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... heart by crying- " O call my brother back to me , I cannot play alone : The summer comes , with flower and bee ... hearts of those who yet remain behind - this were a task too gloomy - but still these are reflections that must wring from ...
... heart by crying- " O call my brother back to me , I cannot play alone : The summer comes , with flower and bee ... hearts of those who yet remain behind - this were a task too gloomy - but still these are reflections that must wring from ...
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... heart and spirit to our knees before the throne of God : let us bless His name for all His goodness : let us crave ... hearts made light with a sense of pardoned sin ; and looking upon Conscience once again with smiling and propitiated ...
... heart and spirit to our knees before the throne of God : let us bless His name for all His goodness : let us crave ... hearts made light with a sense of pardoned sin ; and looking upon Conscience once again with smiling and propitiated ...
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... heart- " Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world ! O that another year may find multitudes who now hold in abeyance these vital things - casting in their lot Iwith the followers of the Lamb . O that the legacy which ...
... heart- " Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world ! O that another year may find multitudes who now hold in abeyance these vital things - casting in their lot Iwith the followers of the Lamb . O that the legacy which ...
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... heart -- a happy new year , I feel myself driven at once back again to the old story . When I say driven back again , I do not mean to imply a plea of guilty to having wandered essentially away from it , but only that in seeking a ...
... heart -- a happy new year , I feel myself driven at once back again to the old story . When I say driven back again , I do not mean to imply a plea of guilty to having wandered essentially away from it , but only that in seeking a ...
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Page 58 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided 1 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 47 - And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 43 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 55 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Page 9 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it...
Page 51 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem; and to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven; and to God the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 51 - Ye are come to Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven...
Page 55 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the -will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 56 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no * earthly sacrifice.
Page 117 - See, from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 4. Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small ; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.