The Pearl of Days: Or, The Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working ClassesPartridge and Oakey, 1849 - 90 sider |
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Side 36
... brother assisted father in the garden . Our morning lesson was usually from the Scriptures , but throughout the day from other books . Our parents were , themselves , as eager to obtain knowledge as they were anx- ious to impart it to ...
... brother assisted father in the garden . Our morning lesson was usually from the Scriptures , but throughout the day from other books . Our parents were , themselves , as eager to obtain knowledge as they were anx- ious to impart it to ...
Side 38
... brother finding a torn leaf of a little school - book in a bush in the haugh — it had been caught there when the stream was swollen by heavy rains . What a prize it was ! one by one , we com- mitted it to memory , while stretched upon ...
... brother finding a torn leaf of a little school - book in a bush in the haugh — it had been caught there when the stream was swollen by heavy rains . What a prize it was ! one by one , we com- mitted it to memory , while stretched upon ...
Side 44
... brother , who was in want of a gardener . We now removed to the east of Scotland ; and our dwelling , until the death of the former gardener , who was laid aside by age , was two rooms , rented for us , in the adjoin- ing village ...
... brother , who was in want of a gardener . We now removed to the east of Scotland ; and our dwelling , until the death of the former gardener , who was laid aside by age , was two rooms , rented for us , in the adjoin- ing village ...
Side 45
... brothers procured employment in the neighbourhood , and I entered the house of my father's mas- ter . I had little relish for the society I was thrown into in this place ; all my habits and pursuits were at entire variance with . what ...
... brothers procured employment in the neighbourhood , and I entered the house of my father's mas- ter . I had little relish for the society I was thrown into in this place ; all my habits and pursuits were at entire variance with . what ...
Side 46
... , I felt it my duty to return home . There were now ten of us , besides our father and mother : my eldest brother was employed in the garden ; my second worked with a tradesman in the neighbourhood ; and two of 46 SKETCH OF THE.
... , I felt it my duty to return home . There were now ten of us , besides our father and mother : my eldest brother was employed in the garden ; my second worked with a tradesman in the neighbourhood ; and two of 46 SKETCH OF THE.
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Side 19 - The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Side i - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Side 129 - For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Side 19 - ... father came to breakfast or dinner, as soon as the repast was finished, (and a working man in health does not usually loiter over his meals,) our mother used to read aloud till the hour was finished, either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if .it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper to be bustling about while father was within ; and when he was gone out, the work must be .done up.
Side 128 - Christian, trusting in his faith alone, though faith without the works of justice is dead, began the attack fiercely without diligently considering that God, who is the Truth, who maketh His sun to shine upon the evil and the good, and the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust, decides all things by a true judgment. The pagan on the other hand resisted stoutly, having before his eyes only the consciousness of the truth for which he was fighting. Finally the Christian fell wounded by the pagan....
Side 28 - Sabbath rest as their birthright, however humble their circumstances or toilsome their life, can never be entirely destitute of an opportunity for training and instructing their offspring. In glancing back on the years of childhood, and tracing the influences which have surrounded me through youth, I am convinced that, in so far as my mind has been awakened to intelligence, and my character formed to virtue, under God, I owe all to my parents, but especially to my mother : her earnest and indefatigable...
Side 37 - ... and so far did she carry this, that she used to say that " it was disagreeable and improper to be bustling about while father was within, and when he was gone out the work must be done up.
Side 26 - ... truths, the knowledge of which would lead them in safety and happiness through all the temptations to which youth is exposed in this world of folly and wickedness. If she properly estimates the importance of the blessings imparted by the knowledge of God, and really feels the power of the love of God in her own heart, poverty may surround her, the pressure of domestic cares may lie heavily upon her, or she may be engaged in the most menial and laborious employment; but, in the midst of all this,...
Side 50 - ... the flower, and carve the leaf; and shall we disdain to lay hold of every opportunity of ministering in the slightest degree, or in the humblest way, to the comfort and enjoyment of those around us? And yet how often are opportunities of doing small acts of kindness and usefulness let slip, while we are sighing over our narrow sphere and our limited means of serving God, or benefiting man...
Side 72 - To hear of heaven, and learn the way;" or that they may trip joyously to their beloved Sabbath-school, there to sing of that happy land where every eye is bright, of that glorious city, the streets of which are of pure gold, where the water of life is continually flowing in a broad river, clear as crystal, from the throne of God and of the Lamb, into which nothing that defileth can enter, neither whatsoever loveth or maketh a lie...