The Wesleyan juvenile offering, Volume 7

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Page 139 - GOD is my strong salvation, What foe have I to fear ? In darkness and temptation, My light, my help is near : Though hosts encamp around me, Firm to the fight I stand ; What terror can confound me, With God at my right hand...
Page 53 - Go, labor on; spend and be spent, Thy joy to do the Father's will: It is the way the Master went; Should not the servant tread it still?
Page 133 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 67 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 69 - Thee to perfection who can tell? Earth and her sons beneath Thee lie, Lighter than dust within Thy scale, And less than nothing in Thine eye.
Page 75 - God would gloriously display his power and love, in the fulfilment of his gracious promise that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea.
Page 90 - On the islands that sit in the regions of night, The lands of despair, to oblivion a prey, The morning will open with healing and light; The young Star of Bethlehem will ripen to day.
Page 108 - The travellers had hardly time to reflect with gratitude to God on their safety, when that part of the ice from which they had just now made good their landing burst asunder, and the water, forcing itself from below, covered and precipitated it into the sea. In an instant, as if by a signal given, the whole mass of ice, extending for several miles from the coast, and as far as the eye could reach, began to burst and be overwhelmed by the immense waves.
Page 40 - O lady fair, I have yet a gem which a purer lustre flings, Than the diamond flash of the jewelled crown on the lofty brow of kings ; A wonderful pearl of exceeding price, whose virtue shall not decay, Whose light shall be as a spell to thee and a blessing on thy way...
Page 116 - Esquimaux now began to build a snowhouse, about thirty paces from the beach ; but, before they had finished their work, the waves reached the place where the sledges were secured, and they were with difficulty saved from being washed into the sea. About...

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