Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid ConsiderationAmerican tract soc., 1881 - 269 pages |
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Page 44 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 178 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 161 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 26 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 252 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 46 - Bible, — a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Page 253 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
Page 192 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Page 43 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed...
Page 43 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground ; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?