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... thankful for having kept out of all the bad company , and the drunkenness , and the swearing , and the dishonesty , and all the poverty and misery which belong to those who choose the course of idleness and extravagance . Think of the ...
... thankful for having kept out of all the bad company , and the drunkenness , and the swearing , and the dishonesty , and all the poverty and misery which belong to those who choose the course of idleness and extravagance . Think of the ...
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... thankful to the good Providence of God for fixing our lot in a land where knowledge is daily increasing , and placed within the reach of the poorest ; where , above all , that know- ledge is vouchsafed to all , which , with God's ...
... thankful to the good Providence of God for fixing our lot in a land where knowledge is daily increasing , and placed within the reach of the poorest ; where , above all , that know- ledge is vouchsafed to all , which , with God's ...
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... thankful to - day , for I am better . " It is only in a long and continued illness , and generally when hope has left us , that this first feeling is silenced , and that we give it only our second thought . Blind Richard was at first ...
... thankful to - day , for I am better . " It is only in a long and continued illness , and generally when hope has left us , that this first feeling is silenced , and that we give it only our second thought . Blind Richard was at first ...
Page 82
... thankful , that we have , by God's grace , been enabled to hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering ; for what other hope or stay can we have in the hour of death or at the day of judgment ? Let us earnestly pray that God ...
... thankful , that we have , by God's grace , been enabled to hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering ; for what other hope or stay can we have in the hour of death or at the day of judgment ? Let us earnestly pray that God ...
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... thankful . I often sat in painful silence by her bed - side , watching the pangs and heavings of her feeble frame , occasionally repeating a short text of Scripture to her , and lifting up my heart in prayer to the Father of Mercies and ...
... thankful . I often sat in painful silence by her bed - side , watching the pangs and heavings of her feeble frame , occasionally repeating a short text of Scripture to her , and lifting up my heart in prayer to the Father of Mercies and ...
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Page 137 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 8 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 262 - God so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Page 155 - AND it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee...
Page 91 - Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, " Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments : and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Page 105 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 108 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Page 394 - Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so?
Page 366 - YE are to take care that this Child be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him, so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and be further instructed in the Church-Catechism set forth for that purpose.
Page 232 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...