 | Thomas Sadler - 1885 - 120 pages
...great goodness, and, according to the multitude of thy mercies, blot out my transgressions. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. And grant that, having served thee on earth, I may be finally numbered among thy saints in glory everlasting,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Devotional exercises - 1886 - 204 pages
...make a good scholar than only the having of many hooks. Lord, be thou my schoolmaster, and 'teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom.' Strange and True. — I read, in the Revelation, of a beast, one of whose ' heads was as it were wounded... | |
 | John Chandler - Meditations - 1888 - 266 pages
...me, to keep me in all my ways. When you hear the clock at any hour of the day, nay:— Teach me, 0 Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. 0ur time passeth away like a shadow, and we bring our days to an end like a tale that is told. Have... | |
 | William Edward Scudamore - Devotional literature - 1890 - 192 pages
...own merits' sake. On hearing the clock strike: — My time passeth away like a shadow. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. On its becoming dark : — The night cometh when no man can work. Grant that I may work Thy works while... | |
 | Rachel H. Taber - 1892 - 278 pages
...engagement. ' Let him that nameth the name of Jesus, depart from iniquity.' " Teach me, O Lord, so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. ' Once more acknowledging Thy goodness; in humility and faith, do I dedicate myself to Thee, and give... | |
 | Funeral sermons - 1895 - 376 pages
...RECTIFY SUCH ERRORS IN OUR OWN MIND ? i. We must understand the reality of the case. " Teach me so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." We must understand what life is given us for, and recognize fully that we must suffer pains and sorrows,... | |
 | Astrology - 1891 - 296 pages
...end, and the number of my days, that I may be certified how long I have to live;" and also " Teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." Solomon says "There is a time for everything ; a time to be born, a time to marry, and a time to die."... | |
 | Sir Michael Connal - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1895 - 426 pages
...time, since the 23rd January, press often home on my mind as well as my mother's. " O Lord, teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." February 19. — Visited this day the grave of my dear sister with very painful emotions. I was solemnized... | |
 | Faustina Hasse Hodges - 1896 - 402 pages
...days more than thirty-eight years since my Mother was likewise taken away. " Good Lord ! so teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." There was a simple dignity about my Father's hour of Evening Prayer. At ten o'clock the little family... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1898 - 546 pages
...Proved, April 1, 1765. Page 57. — In the name of God, Amen. " Blessed be God, who is teaching me to number my days that I may apply my Heart unto Wisdom, as will serve to order my house before I might die, and not seen ye Lord in ye Land of the Living longer.... | |
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Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; ever to remember my last end, that I may not dare to sin against thee. 
