Our Excellent Women of the United Methodist Church in England and America1878 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 75 - Tis Jesus, the first and the last, Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; We'll praise him for all that is past, And trust him for all that's to come.
Seite 118 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth : But higher far my proud pretensions rise ; The son of parents passed into the skies.
Seite 214 - Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
Seite 200 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Seite 116 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Seite 199 - Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray — I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Seite 27 - I asked, whether her father £Dr. Annesley) had not the same faith; and whether she had not heard him preach it to others. She answered, ' He had it himself, and declared a little before his death, that, for more than forty years, he had no darkness, no fear, no doubt at all of his being accepted in the Beloved.
Seite 20 - After that they were, if possible, laid into their cradles awake, and rocked to sleep ; and so they were kept rocking till it was time for them to awake. This was done to bring them to a regular course of sleeping ; which...
Seite 22 - One day was allowed the child wherein to learn its letters; and each of them did in that time know all its letters, great and small, except Molly and Nancy, who were a day and a half before they knew them perfectly; for which I then thought them very dull; but since I have observed how long many children are learning the hornbook, I have changed my opinion.
Seite 271 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.