 | Catherine Talbot - English literature - 1819 - 414 pages
...assistance in preparing or forwarding the gifts of others: in considering, and representing distrest cases to those, who Can relieve them : in visiting...Even those whose poor and toilsome life can admit of 26 Reflections on Thursday. their giving no other help to society, can by their frugality, and industry,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 502 pages
...virtue and religion, and discountenance vice and folly. Every body has some one or other whom they can advise, or instruct, or in some way help to guide...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. FRIDAY. On the Happiness of the present State, and the Selfdenial required in it. " Blessed are they... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...one of us. Every body can do something : every body can set a good example, be it to many or to few : every body has some one or other whom he can advise,...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. GRATITUDB. Who are the people that I ought especially to study to make happy ? Are they parents ? What... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Richmond (Va.) - 1854 - 142 pages
...reverently and sincerely, they will never be wanting in giving them every other assistance that it may please God to put in their power. Even those whose...public. A penny thus saved is a penny given. Dreadful is the state of those idle creatures, who, dragging on a wretched, profligate life, in laziness and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...distressed cases to those who can relieve them; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them:...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. IMPORTANCE OF TIME. Another week is past; another of those little limited portions of time which number... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...cases to those who can relieve them ; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. IMPORTANCE OF TIME. Another week is past ; another of those little limited portions of time which number... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...those who can relieve them ; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can ofler up their prayers for those who need them : which,...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. IMPORTANCE OF TIME. Another week is past ; another of those little limited portions of time which number... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...cases to those who can relieve them ; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. RtJIeOHmt at Tk*n**i. IMPORTANCE OF TIME. Another week is past ; another of those little limited portions... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...distressed cases to those who can relieve them; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them:...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. — Talbot. RULES OF IMPROVEMENT BY CONVERSATION. i. If we would improve our minds by conversation,... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - Conduct of life - 1881 - 672 pages
...distressed cases to those who can relieve them; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them;...assistance that it should please God to put in their power. Dr. Johnson used to say, "He who- waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any." Good... | |
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... through life. Those who are too poor to give alms, can yet give their time, their trouble, their assistance in preparing or forwarding the gifts of others ; in considering and representing distressed cases to those who can relieve them ; in visiting... 