The Religious Souvenir, a Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day Present for MDCCCXXXIV.Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell |
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... peaceful child of a noisy deep ! Thou must bid thy home farewell , Or he who dives will sleep the sleep Of death , for a muscle's shell . But the goodly pearl that the merchant bought , And for which his all he gave , Is a purer one ...
... peaceful child of a noisy deep ! Thou must bid thy home farewell , Or he who dives will sleep the sleep Of death , for a muscle's shell . But the goodly pearl that the merchant bought , And for which his all he gave , Is a purer one ...
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... peaceful home of her birth , rose up to her view - where , but a few years before , she had given her hand to one , whose unkindness now strewed her path with thorns . By constant and endearing attentions , he had won her youthful love ...
... peaceful home of her birth , rose up to her view - where , but a few years before , she had given her hand to one , whose unkindness now strewed her path with thorns . By constant and endearing attentions , he had won her youthful love ...
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... peace . The mother busied herself in making their humble tenement neat and comfortable , while her husband , as if am- bitious to earn in a new residence the reputation he had forfeited in the old , laboured diligently to assist his ...
... peace . The mother busied herself in making their humble tenement neat and comfortable , while her husband , as if am- bitious to earn in a new residence the reputation he had forfeited in the old , laboured diligently to assist his ...
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... peace and mingle in the melody of Heaven . She arose from the orison , and bent calmly over her dead . The thin , placid features wore a smile , as when he had spoken of Jesus . She composed the shining locks around the pure forehead ...
... peace and mingle in the melody of Heaven . She arose from the orison , and bent calmly over her dead . The thin , placid features wore a smile , as when he had spoken of Jesus . She composed the shining locks around the pure forehead ...
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... peace with itself , and obedience to his Maker . Yet was she doomed to witness the full force of grief and of remorse upon intemperance , only to see them utterly overthrown at last . The reviving virtue , with whose indications she had ...
... peace with itself , and obedience to his Maker . Yet was she doomed to witness the full force of grief and of remorse upon intemperance , only to see them utterly overthrown at last . The reviving virtue , with whose indications she had ...
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Popular passages
Page 69 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Page 84 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Page 220 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 80 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 1 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 50 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 176 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 236 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church ; and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 75 - And he said unto them, Why do ye such things ? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. Nay, my sons ; for it is no good report that I hear : ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.
Page 79 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.