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Page 7
How different the scene which heaven presents ! All eyes are fixed on Jesus ;
every look is love ; gratitude glows in every bosom , and swells in every song ;
now with golden harps they sound the Saviour's praise ; and now , descending
from ...
How different the scene which heaven presents ! All eyes are fixed on Jesus ;
every look is love ; gratitude glows in every bosom , and swells in every song ;
now with golden harps they sound the Saviour's praise ; and now , descending
from ...
Page 14
Or , what , to one stone - blind , a scene to which beauty has lent its charms , and
sublimity its grandeur , - the valley clad in a many - coloured robe of flowers , the
gleaming lake , the flashing cascade , the foaming torrent , the dark climbing ...
Or , what , to one stone - blind , a scene to which beauty has lent its charms , and
sublimity its grandeur , - the valley clad in a many - coloured robe of flowers , the
gleaming lake , the flashing cascade , the foaming torrent , the dark climbing ...
Page 22
Thus they showed that they were birds bound for a foreign clime , and that the
period of their migration from the scene of their birth was nigh at hand . Grace
also has its prognostics . They are infallible as those of nature . So , when the
soul ...
Thus they showed that they were birds bound for a foreign clime , and that the
period of their migration from the scene of their birth was nigh at hand . Grace
also has its prognostics . They are infallible as those of nature . So , when the
soul ...
Page 40
SAILING AILING once along a coast where a friend had suffered shipwreck , the
scene which recalled his danger filled us with no fear . Because , while his ship ,
on the night she ran ashore , was cutting her way through the densest fog , we ...
SAILING AILING once along a coast where a friend had suffered shipwreck , the
scene which recalled his danger filled us with no fear . Because , while his ship ,
on the night she ran ashore , was cutting her way through the densest fog , we ...
Page 42
She began the night with dances , and ended it with death . She leaves the merry
revels of a marriage - scene for her home across the mountain . The stars go out ,
and the storm comes on . Bewildered by the howling tempest , and the blinding ...
She began the night with dances , and ended it with death . She leaves the merry
revels of a marriage - scene for her home across the mountain . The stars go out ,
and the storm comes on . Bewildered by the howling tempest , and the blinding ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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