Observations on Sunday-school instruction: the substance of an address

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Page 19 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 16 - For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 19 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 47 - The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Page 54 - The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing : but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Page 62 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 8 - To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 31 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 20 - I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead ; I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Page 18 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...

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