Sceptres and crowns, by the author of 'The wide, wide world'.

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Page 238 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia ; for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him : for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Page 80 - Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify GOD on this behalf.
Page 84 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 87 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 232 - And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them : I pray thee have me excused.
Page 84 - AND there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : and the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD...
Page 89 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness : the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Page 159 - For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray. And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Page 80 - So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good : and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Page 85 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, 3.

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