Flowers from Many Lands: A Christian Companion for Hours of Recreation

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Religious Tract Society, 1855 - 251 sider

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Side 3 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Side 82 - I tread where the twelve in their wayfaring trod; I stand where they stood with the chosen of God — Where His blessing was heard and His lessons were taught, Where the blind were restored and the healing was wrought.
Side 78 - ... better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay // to his heart.
Side 101 - O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Side 81 - PALESTINE. BLEST land of Judea ! thrice hallowed of song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim-like throng ; In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee. With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore, Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before ; With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod Made bright by the steps of the angels of God. Blue sea of the hills ! — in my spirit I hear Thy waters...
Side 90 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him : but weep sore for him that goeth away : for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Side 146 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps...
Side 79 - Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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