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admiration affectionate anxious assured Augusta aunt beautiful believe better Bible blessing child Christian Clara cloth boards comfort countenance cousins daugh daughters dear Mabel dear papa desire disappointment Divine grace Dora's duty earnest effort Engravings Esther extra boards faith father favour fear feel gazed gilt edges girl glorify glory God's governess grace Gresford happy heart heaven Helen holy Holy Spirit honour hope Janet Jesus Christ kind lady last embrace learned Leighton Manor live look Lord Mabel Croyden mamma Mark Leighton melan ment mind Miss Croyden Miss Leighton mother ness never nurse once pain pathy peace pleasure poor prayer present religion RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY replied Mabel righteousness salvation Saviour seemed self-denial sinner sister smallpox smiling sorrow soul Spirit sympathy thee things thou thought tion uncle Leighton unto voice Walter Severn wish wonder young
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Page 158 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 95 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 22 - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 109 - He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Page 64 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 117 - Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest ; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Page 203 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God, who worketh all in all.
Page 69 - I have given them thy word ; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page 156 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Page 92 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.