The Gates Wide Open; Or, Scenes in Another WorldLee and Shepard, 1870 - 340 pages |
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... souls before dormant , or undefined and shadowy , shall become operative ideas , his wishes will have been so far attained . Heaven is the true happiness of the human soul ; presenting the attractions of every excellence and the ...
... souls before dormant , or undefined and shadowy , shall become operative ideas , his wishes will have been so far attained . Heaven is the true happiness of the human soul ; presenting the attractions of every excellence and the ...
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... soul , that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them on earth . If I thought I should never know , and consequently never love them after this life , I should number them with tem poral things ...
... soul , that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them on earth . If I thought I should never know , and consequently never love them after this life , I should number them with tem poral things ...
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... soul , complete in the circle of its powers , has but one aspiration , to be God - like . " Reco- vering herself , she continued : " Now , Peter , tell me of your escape out of the body ? " Peter replied : " Dying was to me , Mrs. Jay ...
... soul , complete in the circle of its powers , has but one aspiration , to be God - like . " Reco- vering herself , she continued : " Now , Peter , tell me of your escape out of the body ? " Peter replied : " Dying was to me , Mrs. Jay ...
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... soul , that the retrospection of my life now is not more vivid than it was at that time . My reply to all these accusations of conscience was this : I repeated all the exceeding great and pre- cious promises of the word of God , and all ...
... soul , that the retrospection of my life now is not more vivid than it was at that time . My reply to all these accusations of conscience was this : I repeated all the exceeding great and pre- cious promises of the word of God , and all ...
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... soul was now bathed in perfect repose , when , my sight failing , I saw but dimly those near me , and became conscious of the presence of my guardian angel . ' Give me , ' said Augusta , ' one last pressure ; ' I did so , and then sunk ...
... soul was now bathed in perfect repose , when , my sight failing , I saw but dimly those near me , and became conscious of the presence of my guardian angel . ' Give me , ' said Augusta , ' one last pressure ; ' I did so , and then sunk ...
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Page 302 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 106 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 66 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 265 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
Page 42 - Christians here, and of these we have a great multitude which no man can number. of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues.
Page 352 - To him that hath loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood, to him be glory both now and forever.
Page 215 - British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature...
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 97 - Commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r ; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 96 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The Old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.