Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, A.M.: Late Missionary to Palestine |
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Page 66
The dawn of the morning finds me awaking to sin , and the shades of the evening
find me ending the day as I began it . If I sometimes get half a thought , or half a
wish raised towards heaven , my corruptions drag me down again to earth , to ...
The dawn of the morning finds me awaking to sin , and the shades of the evening
find me ending the day as I began it . If I sometimes get half a thought , or half a
wish raised towards heaven , my corruptions drag me down again to earth , to ...
Page 70
In the summer of 1810 , about two years and a half after I became , as I hope , a
friend to Christ , after several months of careful inquiry , I felt convinced that , if my
life and health should be spared , and I should succeed in acquiring an ...
In the summer of 1810 , about two years and a half after I became , as I hope , a
friend to Christ , after several months of careful inquiry , I felt convinced that , if my
life and health should be spared , and I should succeed in acquiring an ...
Page 71
My present age , ( twenty - four years , and a half , I think may be considered very
suitable . Should I be a missionary , I shall probably be able to engage in the
work in my twenty - seventh year , if not sooner . No objection , therefore , can be
...
My present age , ( twenty - four years , and a half , I think may be considered very
suitable . Should I be a missionary , I shall probably be able to engage in the
work in my twenty - seventh year , if not sooner . No objection , therefore , can be
...
Page 75
At times I have , for a moment , felt such a relish for Christian society , or such a
desire to be a minister in this country , as has made me half ready to wish that
something might render it obviously my duty to remain at home . This , however ,
has ...
At times I have , for a moment , felt such a relish for Christian society , or such a
desire to be a minister in this country , as has made me half ready to wish that
something might render it obviously my duty to remain at home . This , however ,
has ...
Page 119
About 4 o'clock we go to our instructor , who lives half a mile from us , and spend
from one to two hours with him . He is the most learned man on the Island , is very
kind to us , and takes great pains to assist us . He said one day , in reference to ...
About 4 o'clock we go to our instructor , who lives half a mile from us , and spend
from one to two hours with him . He is the most learned man on the Island , is very
kind to us , and takes great pains to assist us . He said one day , in reference to ...
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Page 50 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 330 - Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Page 432 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 402 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 404 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 309 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : then' grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 260 - My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 179 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 231 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us ; and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.