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... can look through death in the serene assur- ance that He " doeth all things well , " and that justice will , in this and every future stage of being , be ever tempered with mercy . INDEX OF AUTHORS . · · • · • · 10 PREFACE .
... can look through death in the serene assur- ance that He " doeth all things well , " and that justice will , in this and every future stage of being , be ever tempered with mercy . INDEX OF AUTHORS . · · • · • · 10 PREFACE .
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... Things are Yours , The Heart of Unbelief , The Dead , Immortality , Christian Trust , Live and Help Live , Religious Casuistry , The Fountain of Grace , The Eloquent Pastor , Universality of Redemption , Blessed are the Dead , Mrs. Mayo ...
... Things are Yours , The Heart of Unbelief , The Dead , Immortality , Christian Trust , Live and Help Live , Religious Casuistry , The Fountain of Grace , The Eloquent Pastor , Universality of Redemption , Blessed are the Dead , Mrs. Mayo ...
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... things . " Acts , iii . 21 . GIVE evil but an end — and all is clear ! Make it eternal - all things are obscured ! And all that we have thought , felt , wept , endured , Worthless . We feel that ev'n if our own tear Were wiped away for ...
... things . " Acts , iii . 21 . GIVE evil but an end — and all is clear ! Make it eternal - all things are obscured ! And all that we have thought , felt , wept , endured , Worthless . We feel that ev'n if our own tear Were wiped away for ...
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... thing of words but as a meed , Which , like Thyself , is Truth and Love indeed . III . " He that spared not his own Son , but delivered him up for us all , how shall he not witn him also freely give us all things ? " Romans , viii . 32 ...
... thing of words but as a meed , Which , like Thyself , is Truth and Love indeed . III . " He that spared not his own Son , but delivered him up for us all , how shall he not witn him also freely give us all things ? " Romans , viii . 32 ...
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... things by the word of his power . " Hebrews , i , 3 . SINCE all things are , O God , upheld by Thee , And Thou canst never quite withdraw Thyself From any work of Thine , else o'er the shelf Of being it would fall , and nothing be ...
... things by the word of his power . " Hebrews , i , 3 . SINCE all things are , O God , upheld by Thee , And Thou canst never quite withdraw Thyself From any work of Thine , else o'er the shelf Of being it would fall , and nothing be ...
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Page 33 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Page 72 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ! Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage ! thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep Haunted for ever by the eternal mind — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest, On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 108 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove...
Page 162 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 318 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 69 - And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends. And youths and maidens gay...
Page 161 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise, whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 81 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night...
Page 302 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 162 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.