 | Cyrus Thomas - 1896 - 704 pages
...Presbyterian denomination, and have endeavored, although wiih much feebleness and faltering, to do my duty in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call me. My family of four sons are all married, and living in Ottawa. John, the eldest, born 1st November,... | |
 | 1896 - 606 pages
...which has just been mentioned, ' Odd, but pleasant enough, if he would but learn to ' be contented in that state of life in which it has pleased ' God to call him — a maxim which I have long thought ' the best in the Catechism.' But Coleridge was not a discontented... | |
 | John Bleecker Miller - 1897 - 210 pages
...mother of invention, which is ever driving the individual to improve his condition, to do his duty in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call him, better and more expeditiously, and thus creates one main difference between progressive nations... | |
 | 1901 - 676 pages
...it impossible for me ever to regain. — I shall now go on, I hope, persevering by " doing my duty in that state of life, in which it has pleased God to call me." The kindness I have, and still continue to receive from my friends here, is very uncommon, and... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 pages
...fathers ; will live well and be well clothed ; and will be respected like their fathers, and be happy in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them ; and will not, I hope, listen to any fanatical man, who would persuade them, that to starve... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 368 pages
...fathers ; will live well and be well clothed ; and will be respected like their fathers, and be happy in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them ; and will not, I hope, listen to any fanatical man, who would persuade them, that to starve... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 pages
...fathers ; will live well and be well clothed ; and will be respected like their fathers, and be happy in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them ; and will not, I hope, listen to any fanatical man, who would persuade them, that to starve... | |
 | Charles Spalding Wylly - 1910 - 172 pages
...the other in the acceptance of personal and property guarantees must simply strive to do their best in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them. With this Utopian idea of moral improvement realized, it might be possible to find warrant... | |
 | 1911 - 328 pages
...indigent, uninformed Brethren and Children. Leave these things to them ; it is yours to do your Duty in that State of Life in which it has pleased God to place you. ... It is no Charity to give away what does not belong to you, what your own Hands have... | |
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... in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them... 
