Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Volume 7Workers of Cornwall Limited, 1883 - Cornwall (England : County) Includes the Reports of the Institution, which, prior to the establishment of the Journal, were issued separately. |
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Page 31 - I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." And in another place (xxii. 2), speaking of the paradise and of the river of the water of life proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb...
Page 10 - ... looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Page 23 - Shepherd : though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Page 4 - ... whether of beauty and delight, or of deformity and terror. Among those events, the most momentous was his connection with Charles Simeon, and with such of his disciples as sought learning at Cambridge, and learned leisure at Clapham. A mind so beset by sympathies of every other kind, could not but be peculiarly susceptible to the contagion of opinion. From that circle he adopted, in all its unadorned simplicity, the system called Evangelical...
Page 35 - The blessed God has again visited my soul in his power, and all that was within me blessed his holy name. I found my heaven begun on earth. No work so sweet as that of praying, and living wholly to the service of God
Page 33 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Page 29 - Christ, we were aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Page 221 - A GOOD sword and a trusty hand ! A merry heart and true ! King James's men shall understand What Cornish lads can do. And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why...
Page 3 - ... depasture. There is no concealing the fact, that he annually received from the East India Company an ugly allowance of twelve hundred pounds; and though he would be neither just nor prudent who should ascribe to the attractive force of that stipend one hour of Henry Martyn's residence in the east, yet the ideal would be better without it. Oppressively conclusive as may be the arguments in favour of a well-endowed and punctually paid ' Establishment,' they have, after all, an unpleasant earthly...
Page 11 - Let her live happy and useful in her present situation, since that is the will of God. How long these thoughts may continue, I cannot say. At times of indolence, or distress, or prevalent corruption, the former wishes, I suppose, will occur and renew my pain : but pray, my dear sister, that the Lord may keep in the imaginations of the thoughts of my heart all that may be for the glory of His great name. The only objection which presented itself to my advisers to marriage was the difficulty of finding...