Scenes and Characters Illustrating Christian Truth: The backslider, by H.F.S. Lee

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Henry Ware
J. Munroe, 1835

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Seite 3 - Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Seite 22 - If we could, from one of the battlements of heaven, espy how many men and women at this time lie fainting and dying for want -of bread, how many young men are hewn down by the sword of war, how many poor orphans are now weeping over the graves of their fathers, by whose life they were enabled to eat ; if we could but hear how many mariners and passengers are at this present in...
Seite 22 - ... mariners and passengers are at this present in a storm, and shriek out because their keel dashes against a rock, or bulges under them, how many people there are that weep with want, and are mad with oppression, or are desperate by too quick a sense of a constant infelicity; in all reason we should be glad to be out of the noise and participation of so many evils.
Seite 92 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Seite 52 - Thy Spirit is around, Quickening the restless mass that sweeps along; And this eternal sound — Voices and footfalls of the numberless throng — Like the resounding sea, Or like the rainy tempest, speaks of Thee.
Seite 86 - Christian guides speak truly, it still yearns towards us, it would still gladden us. It still melts in tenderness over our sorrows. The world of spirits — we know not where it is, whether far or near ; but it may as well, for all that we can understand, be near to us, as far distant ; and in that fervent love, which knows nothing of change or distance or distinction, it is forever near us.
Seite 126 - T is e'en as if an angel shook her wings." WE must now return to the village, and account for Robert's last letter. It was long before any rumors reached him of his son's misconduct. All had treated with respect a father's feelings ; but there is an instinctive perception in...
Seite 66 - ... might expect him. I went out of my little tent repeatedly to see that all were at their proper posts, and returned as often, satisfied that they were. Peer Khan was lying near my tent apparently in a sound sleep, but I knew he was awake ; the scouts were wandering lazily about ; above all, the night was so dark that I could not see my hand before me, and the splashing and murmuring of the tiny waves of the lake upon the shore would prevent any noise of his footsteps being heard.
Seite 28 - The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth forth his handy- work.

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