The Land O' the LealHodder and Stoughton, 1896 - 320 pages |
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Page 92 - Let not your heart be troubled ; in my Father's house are many mansions ; I go to prepare a place for you. And, if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am there ye may be also.
Page 35 - Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 135 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said ; Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 82 - He stood by the side of the bed, and looked down at her with a curious expression on his face.
Page 76 - ... instinct of affection for their young. But ever remember that feeling is one thing and principle is another ; and to give the stamp of religion to your doings, a sense of God and of His will, must mingle and give the tone and the direction to every one of them. And thus while it is true that part of pure religion and undefiled is to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, it is only when this is done with a reference of the heart to God and the Father.
Page 103 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.