Female Piety ...R. Carter & bros., 1854 - 450 pages |
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Page 360 - What will you do? Be Mary's Memorial yours. And to what renown did it raise her ? " Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." How literally has this been fulfilled. Wherever the Bible has gone,
Page 128 - and felicity of true religion, hear what our Divine Lord said. On one occasion, " A certain woman of the company lifted, up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Page 120 - beg your very closest attention to them, as in the presence of God and the prospect of eternity. The apostle Paul, in setting forth the subject and substance of his ministry, describes it thus : " Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus
Page 74 - FOR HIM." This is further expressed, or rather repeated, where it is said, "And Adam,'"' or, "Although Adam, had given names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; yet for Adam there was not found AN
Page 420 - will do all this, not by fits and starts in genial moods, but continually. But this is not all ; for, on looking onward in the chapter, we find another reference to her conduct and influence as a wife. " Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land."—23..
Page 190 - She stretcheth out her hands to the poor ; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness." There the good housewife is supposed to find time for works of mercy abroad, as well as of industry at home.
Page 165 - to live only for yourselves. In this cause, I want you to be even zealous. The apostle says, " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." Zeal, as you know, means an earnest, ardent desire, giving rise to a correspondent energy of action, to obtain some
Page 262 - respect, and invite confidence. God will go before you to prepare the way for you, for when a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh "even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page 24 - or caprice. How should she rejoice to hear Him say, " Whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and whoso marrieth her that is put away, doth commit
Page 190 - description of the virtuous woman comprehends both these : " She looketh well to the ways of her household. The heart of her husband doth safely trust her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. Her children rise up and call her blessed. She giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She