The American Missionary, Volume 47

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American Missionary Association, 1893 - Congregational churches
Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Congregational Home Missionary Society's Executive Committee, 1883/84-1907/08.
 

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Page 369 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 18 - Both riches and honour come of thee. and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto alL Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Page 166 - Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 369 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 414 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 97 - States as hereinbefore provided, unless he shall establish clearly to the satisfaction of said Judge that by reason of accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause, he has been unable to procure his certificate, and to the satisfaction of the Court, and by at least one credible white witness, that he was a resident of the United States at the time of the passage of this Act...
Page 369 - LORD, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?' ' They are pierced to-night by many a thorn.' And all through the mountains, thunder-riven, And up from the rocky steep, There rose a cry to the gate of Heaven, ' Rejoice 1 I have found My sheep ! ' And the Angels echoed around the throne, ' Rejoice, for the LORD brings back His own !
Page 364 - Spirit, whose office it is to take of the things of Christ, and show them unto us...
Page 18 - I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto Me with their whole heart.
Page 97 - States, and may be arrested, by any United States customs official, collector of internal revenue or his deputies, United States marshal or his deputies, and taken before a United States judge...

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