Annual Report, Issues 1-4The Commission, 1863 - United States |
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Page 177 - He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, Even praise unto our God : Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in the Lord.
Page 154 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Page 78 - But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Page 65 - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 27 - On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you.
Page 105 - The birthday of Washington and the Christian Sabbath coinciding this year, and suggesting together the highest interests of this life and of that to come, is most propitious for the meeting proposed.
Page 214 - ASLEEP in Jesus ! blessed sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep, A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes.
Page 173 - And melt mine eyes to tears. 5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay The debt of love I owe : Here, Lord, I give myself away, — 'Tis all that I can do.
Page 105 - Your Christian and benevolent undertaking for the benefit of the soldiers, is too obviously proper, and praise-worthy, to admit any difference of opinion — I sincerely hope your plan may be as successful in execution, as it is just and generous in conception.
Page 64 - The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.