The City: Its Sins and Sorrows. Being a Series of Sermons from Luke XIX.41. ...R. Carter, 1857 - 215 pages |
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Act of Parliament amid attendance beheld the city Behold beneath better blessed breast catch the winds census child Christian church classes crime crowd dead Deansgate death districts drink drinking-shop drunk drunkard drunkenness earth evil families father fighting Gibeah Glasgow golden harvests gospel habits hand happy heart heaven holy honor house of God human infant inhabitants intemperance intoxicating irreligion Jerusalem Jesus kingdom labors land large cities leave liberty living look Lord lowest Manchester minister misery moral mother nation never number of children parents Parliament piety pluck poor population present prison religion roar Roman Catholic Church ruin Sabbath schools Salford scenes Scotland seen society souls spirit stand statistics streets Sunday tears temperance temptations thing thou thousands tion town truth twenty United Kingdom unto vice virtue voice weep woman women wretched
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Page 107 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Page 37 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 22 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 23 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Page 150 - For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to his works.
Page 22 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God : and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 162 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of his understanding.
Page 85 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 37 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 65 - Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.