Arrows and Anecdotes

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H. Gurley, 1877 - 207 Seiten

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Seite 134 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Seite 153 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Seite 43 - There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold. But one was out on the hills away, Far off from the gates of gold— Away on the mountains wild and bare, Away from the tender Shepherd's care. " Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine ; Are they not enough for Thee ? " But the Shepherd made answer — "This of mine Has wandered away from Me ; And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find My sheep.
Seite 44 - But none of the ransomed ever knew How deep were the waters crossed ; Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through Ere He found His Sheep that was lost. Out in the desert He heard its cry, Sick, and helpless, and ready to die. " Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way, That mark out the mountain's track?" " They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.
Seite 44 - Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ? ' "They are pierced to-night by many a thorn." And all through the mountains, thunder-riven And up from the rocky steep, There rose a cry to the gate of heaven, " Rejoice ! I have found my sheep ! " And the angels echoed around the throne, " Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own !
Seite 45 - tis He who once below Man's pathway trod 'mid pain and woe : And burdened ones, where'er He came, Brought out their sick, and deaf, and lame, The blind rejoiced to hear the cry, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
Seite 134 - Behold, I stand at the door and knock ; if any man open, I will come in and sup with him.
Seite 136 - Death, hell, and sin are now subdued ; All grace is now to sinners given ; And, lo ! I plead the atoning blood, And in thy right I claim my heaven.
Seite 85 - For the Lord God will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Seite 180 - ... down, and there, upon the rocks and briars, he saw the mangled form of his loved child. He rushed to the spot, took up the lifeless corpse and hugged it to his bosom, and accused himself of being the murderer of his child. While he was sleeping his child had wandered over the precipice. I thought as I heard that, what a picture of the church of God ! How many fathers and mothers, how many Christian men, are sleeping now while their children wander over the terrible precipice right into the bottomless...

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