Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 páginas |
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... present all recklessness ; the future all hopelessness ; the maniacs revelry , and the fiends delight , if you could annihilate that precious volume , which -tells us of God , and of Christ , and unveils immortality , and instructs in ...
... present all recklessness ; the future all hopelessness ; the maniacs revelry , and the fiends delight , if you could annihilate that precious volume , which -tells us of God , and of Christ , and unveils immortality , and instructs in ...
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... present under the direction of the Board , having been transferred to the care of the churches in their vicinities , in order to make room for the establishment of others , in different sections . ) One of these schools was organized ...
... present under the direction of the Board , having been transferred to the care of the churches in their vicinities , in order to make room for the establishment of others , in different sections . ) One of these schools was organized ...
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... present efficient missionary , the Rev. John Street , which action was afterwards confirmed by the Conference , at its next session , in April , 1842 . Our missionary , in his wanderings , met with so many cases of suffering and want ...
... present efficient missionary , the Rev. John Street , which action was afterwards confirmed by the Conference , at its next session , in April , 1842 . Our missionary , in his wanderings , met with so many cases of suffering and want ...
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... present wants . He converses with them upon the subject of religion - offering them its conso- lations and finding them not possessed of it , urges them , in the most kind and persuasive manner , to embrace it at once . They are much ...
... present wants . He converses with them upon the subject of religion - offering them its conso- lations and finding them not possessed of it , urges them , in the most kind and persuasive manner , to embrace it at once . They are much ...
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... present us with a mere representation of what is , or of what is commonly , but should lead us into more sunny and delightful scenes than the rough , ordinary , homespun world affords ; and not , as is now but too often the case , make ...
... present us with a mere representation of what is , or of what is commonly , but should lead us into more sunny and delightful scenes than the rough , ordinary , homespun world affords ; and not , as is now but too often the case , make ...
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Página 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Página 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Página 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Página 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Página 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Página 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Página 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Página 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...