A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh: With Selections from His ... Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, &c. ...Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1831 - 620 pages |
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... occasions , there was a farm fes- tival , in which every inhabitant of the place par- took ; namely , the kirn , or harvest home , at the close of autumn , and the celebration of the new year . On these occasions , an abundant feast of ...
... occasions , there was a farm fes- tival , in which every inhabitant of the place par- took ; namely , the kirn , or harvest home , at the close of autumn , and the celebration of the new year . On these occasions , an abundant feast of ...
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... occasions of special solemnity , the hinds and cot- ters , with their assembled families . He men- tioned , that when his father happened to be from home , the family devotions were conducted by his mother , as , at that time , indeed ...
... occasions of special solemnity , the hinds and cot- ters , with their assembled families . He men- tioned , that when his father happened to be from home , the family devotions were conducted by his mother , as , at that time , indeed ...
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... poetical imagination which in after - life so often astonished and delighted his auditors , both in his pulpit discourses , and on more familiar occasions . The pleasing account which he has himself left , in 22 EARLSTOUN SCHOOL .
... poetical imagination which in after - life so often astonished and delighted his auditors , both in his pulpit discourses , and on more familiar occasions . The pleasing account which he has himself left , in 22 EARLSTOUN SCHOOL .
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... occasions , Alex- ander Waugh , being the eldest boy , generally offered up the prayers ; and it was from observ- ing the early indications of the opening qualities of his head and heart thus given , ( and no doubt most gratefully ...
... occasions , Alex- ander Waugh , being the eldest boy , generally offered up the prayers ; and it was from observ- ing the early indications of the opening qualities of his head and heart thus given , ( and no doubt most gratefully ...
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... occasions on Stitchell Brae , will be particularly noticed in a subsequent part of the memoir . The congregation of Stitchell was at that pe- riod under the pastoral charge of the Rev. George Coventry , of whom he never spoke but in ...
... occasions on Stitchell Brae , will be particularly noticed in a subsequent part of the memoir . The congregation of Stitchell was at that pe- riod under the pastoral charge of the Rev. George Coventry , of whom he never spoke but in ...
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Page 566 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 200 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 317 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 558 - O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 390 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 487 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll. For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the...
Page 120 - If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
Page 529 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 270 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 535 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.