The Recollections of a Minister: Or Sketches Drawn from Life and CharacterO. Scott, 1847 - 87 pages |
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Page 7 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 66 - To him give all the prophets witness, that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Page 79 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : • then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 45 - Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord ; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Page 11 - Sun, seems larger at his setting: (High in his faith and hopes) look how he reaches After the prize in view...
Page 86 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 81 - Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers! The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Page 70 - EVENING BELLS. THOSE evening bells, those evening bells, How many a tale their music tells Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, When first I heard their soothing chime.
Page 40 - God, who has promised to be a Father to the Fatherless, and a Husband to the Widow, and to supply the Want of every Relation.
Page 80 - O death ! where is thy sting ? O grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.