The Two Heaps and what Miss Brown's Sunday-School Class Did about Them |
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Page 1 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 68 - I'm in this army, Yes, I'm glad I'm in this army, Yes, I'm glad I'm in this army, And I'll battle for the school.
Page 80 - The Chatterbox FROM morning till night it was Lucy's delight To chatter and talk without stopping : There was not a day but she rattled away, Like water for ever a-dropping.
Page 39 - Well done, good and faithful servant! thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!
Page 72 - OUR Father, which art in heaven ; hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily tread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.
Page 4 - ... way of seeing those in destitution, and on whose good sense and good feeling he relied, to be distributed as their judgment should dictate. He could not bear to think that any one, whom he could relieve, should suffer from want. It was Cecil, we think, who said that he always thought of the world as divided into two heaps, one of happiness and the other of misery, and that it was his purpose to take something from the latter and to add something every day to the former. No one ever acted more...
Page 102 - May I ask the master a question ?' said I. With some hesitation he consented to let me : so I begged Jaffier Ali to inquire, ' Which is the way to be happy ?' , " This he did in his own manner: he began by observing that ' there was a great deal of misery in the world, and that the learned shared as largely in it as the rest; that I wished, therefore, to know what we must do to escape it.' The master replied, that, ' for his part, he did not know, but that it was usually said that the subjugation...
Page 28 - Around the throne of God in heaven, Ten thousand children stand...