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... Paul . He knew the skill of the robbers better than any of us . Here is his own record : In stripes above measure , in prisons more frequent , in deaths oft . Of the Jews five times re- ceived I forty stripes save one . Thrice was I ...
... Paul . He knew the skill of the robbers better than any of us . Here is his own record : In stripes above measure , in prisons more frequent , in deaths oft . Of the Jews five times re- ceived I forty stripes save one . Thrice was I ...
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... Paul and Barnabas , so sharply contending ; and all their contentious sons the wide world over ? Wherever and whenever two daughters of Euodias and Syntyche -poor ruffled creatures who have judged rashly and spoken hastily — meet ...
... Paul and Barnabas , so sharply contending ; and all their contentious sons the wide world over ? Wherever and whenever two daughters of Euodias and Syntyche -poor ruffled creatures who have judged rashly and spoken hastily — meet ...
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... Paul and Barnabas and such a Great- heart kneel , we take our shoes from off our feet , for the place whereon we ... Paul , Peter addresses himself to all husbands and to all wives till wedding - bells shall chime no more . But Peter ...
... Paul and Barnabas and such a Great- heart kneel , we take our shoes from off our feet , for the place whereon we ... Paul , Peter addresses himself to all husbands and to all wives till wedding - bells shall chime no more . But Peter ...
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... Paul and Silas were persecuted , meet together in His name , as Paul and Silas in their prison ' prayed and sang praises unto God , ' there will He be in the midst of them , as He was most mani- festly in the midst of them on that never ...
... Paul and Silas were persecuted , meet together in His name , as Paul and Silas in their prison ' prayed and sang praises unto God , ' there will He be in the midst of them , as He was most mani- festly in the midst of them on that never ...
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... Paul never forgot when he and Silas and Lydia — happy three - met together in His name . It was the very joy that is in the presence of the angels overflowing into the hearts of mortal men . There was not a shadow of doubt about it . He ...
... Paul never forgot when he and Silas and Lydia — happy three - met together in His name . It was the very joy that is in the presence of the angels overflowing into the hearts of mortal men . There was not a shadow of doubt about it . He ...
Contents
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The Prudentialities of Life | 46 |
The Face at the Window | 52 |
The Organist | 134 |
The Jackass and the Kangaroo | 140 |
Our Rubbishheaps | 147 |
Lifes Invisible Constabulary | 154 |
So many Beds in the Ward | 161 |
Part III | 169 |
The Law of the Lane | 171 |
A Tonic of Big Things | 178 |
Back Moves | 61 |
The Tireless Trudge | 70 |
Sunset on the Sea | 78 |
Part II | 87 |
Clean Bowled | 89 |
Mad Dogs and Mosquitoes | 96 |
On Falling in Love | 105 |
Ipecacuanha | 112 |
Seaside Lodgings | 120 |
The Cliffs of Dover | 128 |
Sermons and Sandwiches | 185 |
The Challenge of the Heights | 193 |
The Furniturevan | 201 |
On the Wisdom of Conducting Ones Own Funeral | 209 |
Our Better Halves | 216 |
The Conquest of the Poles | 224 |
Hatpins and Buttonhooks | 232 |
The Brow of the Hill | 239 |
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Page 159 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 65 - And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter : so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 201 - Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England— now!
Page 22 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 22 - I forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfuluess, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness ; besides...
Page 146 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 229 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 177 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned; 5 Youth shows but half. Trust God; see all, nor be afraid!