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Happy the family of which God is the father , Jesus the elder brother , and all the “
saints in light ” are brethren - brethren born of one Spirit ; nursed at the full breast
of the same promises ; trained in the same high school of heavenly discipline ...
Happy the family of which God is the father , Jesus the elder brother , and all the “
saints in light ” are brethren - brethren born of one Spirit ; nursed at the full breast
of the same promises ; trained in the same high school of heavenly discipline ...
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Left in his original obscurity he had been a happy peasant , whistling his way
home from the plough to a thatch - roofed cottage , or on winter nights , and
around the blazing faggots , laughing loud and merry among unpolished boors .
Child of ...
Left in his original obscurity he had been a happy peasant , whistling his way
home from the plough to a thatch - roofed cottage , or on winter nights , and
around the blazing faggots , laughing loud and merry among unpolished boors .
Child of ...
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Than go down to hell , than perish in the coming storm , they would turn their
prow to heaven ; but only as the last refuge of a sinking bark , -a safe , it may be ,
but yet a friendless shore . Unlike the happy swallows which David envied , thy
altar ...
Than go down to hell , than perish in the coming storm , they would turn their
prow to heaven ; but only as the last refuge of a sinking bark , -a safe , it may be ,
but yet a friendless shore . Unlike the happy swallows which David envied , thy
altar ...
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Our lines have fallen in pleasant places , and happy the land , nor to be rashly left
, where the light of divine truth streams from a thousand printing - presses , and
the candle of the Lord shines bright in its humblest cottages . May I not say that ...
Our lines have fallen in pleasant places , and happy the land , nor to be rashly left
, where the light of divine truth streams from a thousand printing - presses , and
the candle of the Lord shines bright in its humblest cottages . May I not say that ...
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... a home , where they have never looked on each other's faces ; but a blind
father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother
nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy
smile .
... a home , where they have never looked on each other's faces ; but a blind
father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother
nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy
smile .
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| Title | Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses from the Colossians |
| Author | Thomas Guthrie |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1858 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2016 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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