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Memoir of Lewis D. B. Gordon...

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Constable, 1877 - 235 pages
  

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Page 166 - WEEP not for me ; — Be blithe as wont, nor tinge with gloom The stream of love that circles home, Light hearts and free ! Joy in the gifts Heaven's bounty lends ; Nor miss my face, dear friends ! I still am near ; — Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth ; Now too I hear Of whisper'd sounds the tale complete, Low prayers, and musings sweet.
Page 180 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Page 120 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 167 - Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved.
Page 180 - Being Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good. The darts of anguish fix not where the seat Of suffering hath been thoroughly fortified By acquiescence in the Will supreme For time and for eternity — by faith, Faith absolute in God, including hope, And the defence that lies in boundless love Of His perfections; with habitual dread Of aught unworthily conceived, endured Impatiently, ill-done, or left undone, To the dishonour of...
Page 166 - Be blithe as wont, nor tinge with gloom The stream of love that circles home, Light hearts and free ! Joy in the gifts Heaven's bounty lends ; Nor miss my face, dear friends ' I still am near ; — Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth ; Now, too I hear, Of whispered sounds the tale complete, Low prayers, and musings sweet. A sea before The Throne is spread ; its pure, still glass Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass. We, on its shore, • Share, in the...
Page 241 - This book should be returned to the L1brary on or before the last date stamped below. , A fine of five cents a day is incurred by retaining it beyond the specified time.
Page 10 - Yet something we may do: we may take care that those who come ready and willing for the road, shall start from the proper point and in the proper direction -,— shall not scramble over broken ground, when there is a causeway parallel to their path, nor set off confidently from an advanced point when the first steps of the road are still doubtful ; — shall not waste their powers in struggling forwards where movement is not progress, and shall have pointed out to them all glimmerings of light, through...
Page 25 - Teacher had not the least idea how to expound, but being obliged to do something, she looked at the first text, which was, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his,' and asked if they knew who said it? 'Numbers, twenty-third chapter, tenth verse,' was the first answer she received.

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