History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina: From the Earliest Period of the Colonization of the Dutch, German, and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the First Half of the Present Century

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Lutheran Book Store, 1872 - 557 pages
 

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Page 209 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began...
Page 244 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 557 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Page 60 - Corporations, or having accepted any office, civil or military, or any place of trust under the Crown, to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Rites of the Church of England.
Page 505 - For me to live is Christ, and to 'die is gain. I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.
Page 308 - Carolina," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession of officers and members, and a common seal, with power to change, alter. break and make new the same, as often as the said corporation shall judge expedient...
Page 540 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 307 - Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable, the Senate and the House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That...
Page 54 - Indians or savage beasts, which made him the bolder to report strange things in his own praise and my disparagement, presuming I would never appear to disprove him. This, I suppose, and no other, was the cause that he did with so much industry procure me discredit and odium ; but I have lost nothing by it but what I never studied to gain, which is popular applause.
Page 148 - Had a traveller from Pennsylvania visited, about forty or fifty years ago, portions of the present counties of Alamance, Guilford, Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly, Iredell, Catawba, Lincoln and some others in the State of North Carolina, he might have believed himself to have unexpectedly come upon some part of the old Keystone State.

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