Life, Real and UnrealAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1853 - 264 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 181 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Page 134 - Bitter within her, and her spirit grew Faint for undying waters. Then she came To the pure fount of God, and is athirst No more — save when the fever of the world Falleth upon her, she will go, sometimes, Out in the star-light quietness, and breathe A holy aspiration after Heaven.
Page 63 - For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear.
Page 96 - Lord himself did not pray that his disciples might be taken out of the world, but that they might be kept from the evil...
Page 130 - ... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established.
Page 20 - The Heart — the Heart that's truly blest Is never all its -own; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone.
Page 157 - A minister is to show that the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price...
Page 139 - How they can sit and hear of the infinite height, and depth, and length, and breadth of the love of God...
Page 113 - O Lord, not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy name be all the praise.
Page 42 - Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.