The Life of George H. Stuart

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J. M. Stoddard and Company, 1890 - 383 pages
 

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Page 346 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 14 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Page 352 - Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, go out quickly into the streets, and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Page 369 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 168 - Whatever shall be, sincerely and in God's name, devised for the good of the soldiers and seamen in their hard spheres of duty, can scarcely fail to be blessed. And whatever shall tend to turn our thoughts from the unreasoning and uncharitable passions, prejudices, and jealousies...
Page 168 - ... the vast and long-enduring consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from the struggle, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be well for us alL...
Page 209 - The only difference is in the form of outward administration; wherein also we are so far agreed that we all profess this form not to be essential to the being of a church...
Page 368 - Jesus, Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high : Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O, receive my soul at last...
Page 123 - Your Christian and benevolent undertaking for the benefit of the soldiers, is too obviously proper, and praise-worthy, to admit any difference of opinion — I sincerely hope your plan may be as successful in execution, as it is just and generous in conception.
Page 118 - DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, informing me of the appointment, by the Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations, of a Commission to take active measures to promote the spiritual and temporal welfare of our soldiers and sailors.

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