The wide, wide world; or, The early history of Ellen Montgomery, Ed. by a clergyman of the Church of England [or rather written by S.B. Warner]. With coloured illustr

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Page 441 - Weak is the effort of my heart, And cold my warmest thought ; But when I see thee as thou art, I'll praise thee as I ought. 6 Till then I would thy love proclaim With every fleeting breath ; And may the music of thy name Refresh my soul in death ! 680 Another.
Page 220 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God ; and the books were opened : and another book was opened, •which is the book of life : and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it ; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them : and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
Page 216 - A CHARGE to keep I have A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky...
Page 443 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want ; More than all in thee I find; Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind ! Just and holy is thy name ; I am all unrighteousness ; Vile, and full of sin I am ; Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 240 - I love them that love me ; and they that seek me early shall find me.
Page 432 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 66 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 33 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 18 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me ; What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 65 - The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.

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