The Mercersburg Review, Volume 1

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Alumni Association of Marshall College, 1849 - Theology
 

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Page 568 - All sadness but despair: now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambique, off" at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the bless'd; with such
Page 111 - To whom shall we go but unto Thee? Thou hast the words of eternal life; and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God." (Matt. xvi. 16; John, vi. 68, 69.)
Page 112 - that to Jesus Christ our Lord, and God and Saviour and king, according to the good pleasure of the invisible Father, every knee may bow of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue confess,
Page 566 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould, Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
Page 195 - is my cov-enant with them, my spirit which is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy
Page 420 - There will be wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.".
Page 183 - my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 568 - Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. '•BANQUO:— This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. Nojutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Page 566 - be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again ; it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like
Page 460 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him." The church of Montrose, was a large and intelligent one, and the right of patronage of the parish was vested in

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