The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-18591857 |
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... interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler . No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference . It is that from which all date their time , and count upon what is left . It is the nativity of our common Adam ...
... interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler . No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference . It is that from which all date their time , and count upon what is left . It is the nativity of our common Adam ...
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... interest in efforts made for the social and intellectual weal of the world is to be found in some Christian teachers . Albeit , careful investigation will , we believe , show that the ministry of our land con- sists , on the whole , of ...
... interest in efforts made for the social and intellectual weal of the world is to be found in some Christian teachers . Albeit , careful investigation will , we believe , show that the ministry of our land con- sists , on the whole , of ...
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... interests of his people . Of more than a few such Pharoses in the midst of the surrounding darkness he was himself the founder ; and he did all in his power to promote their establishment by others . The touching reminiscences connected ...
... interests of his people . Of more than a few such Pharoses in the midst of the surrounding darkness he was himself the founder ; and he did all in his power to promote their establishment by others . The touching reminiscences connected ...
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... interest with which he pursued his own mental self- advancement and this , notwithstanding he was ever exposed to the paroxysms of a most painful disorder , which incessantly tormented him day and night from the twentieth to the forty ...
... interest with which he pursued his own mental self- advancement and this , notwithstanding he was ever exposed to the paroxysms of a most painful disorder , which incessantly tormented him day and night from the twentieth to the forty ...
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... interest this month in the Wesleyan Missionary Intelligencer , ' in the form of a communication from Kafirland , detailing the par- ticulars of the massacre of the Rev. James Stewart Thomas , Wesleyan missionary at Beecham Wood . The ...
... interest this month in the Wesleyan Missionary Intelligencer , ' in the form of a communication from Kafirland , detailing the par- ticulars of the massacre of the Rev. James Stewart Thomas , Wesleyan missionary at Beecham Wood . The ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.