Memoirs of Ebenezer and Emma Hooper, 1821-1885, 1821-1866: Including an Unfinished Autobiography, with Extracts from Letters, Journals, and Hymns

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Billing & Sons, 1905 - 237 pages
 

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Page 55 - And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page v - The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.
Page 16 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 151 - He delighteth not in the strength of the horse : he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Page iii - But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 24 - I believed the promise was verified with us, that " where two or three are met together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 54 - Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Page 142 - My prayers and alms, imperfect and defiled, Were but the feeble efforts of a child ; Howe'er perform'd, it was their brightest part, That they proceeded from a grateful heart : Cleansed in Thine own all-purifying blood, Forgive their evil, and accept their good ; I cast them at Thy feet — my only plea Is what it was, dependance upon Thee ; While struggling in the vale of tears below, That never fail'd, nor shall it fail me now.
Page 126 - Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD : he is their help and their shield.
Page 55 - SWEET was the time, when first I felt The Saviour's pardoning blood, Applied to cleanse my soul from guilt, And bring me home to God.

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