 | William Smith Porter - 1663 - 196 pages
...how he was, he replied — " Alas ! I have lost everything ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me ; but I thank God, my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows, than fails." A short time before his death, Mr. Walten, his colleague, having called to see him, he said — " You... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...asked how he did, would sometimes answer, " Alas ! I have lost every * Historical Collections, p. 183. thing ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails."* Love to his poor Indians, as well as the other branches of charity, remained unimpaired to the last.... | |
 | 1801 - 530 pages
...of his fhue of health, " Alas I " I have loft every thing. My underftanding leaves me, " My memory, my utterance, fails me. But, I thank " God, my charity holds out ftill. I find that grows '' rather than fails." LETTERS ON EDUCATION. By JOHN WITHERSPOON, DD late... | |
 | 1814 - 548 pages
...sometimes answer when asked how he did : " Alas L my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails nie ; my utterance fails me : but, I thank God, my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow than fail !" But, beside these more substantial expressions of his charity, he made the odours... | |
 | 1818 - 494 pages
...have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but 1 thank God my charity holds out still, I find that rather grows than fails." When any of his neighbours were in distress, he was like c brother born for adversity, and would visit... | |
 | 1825 - 422 pages
...employment, he would sometimes answer when asked how he did ; Mas ! my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow than fail. " His charity led him also to peace. — When he heard any ministers complain, that... | |
 | James Grahame - 1827 - 560 pages
...how he did, he replied, " I have lost every thing : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails ine, my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity...recalled him from the brink of the grave. Mather, B. Hi. NcaL, ii. 470. « Se« Note VII. BOOK riority. A considerable body of Indians resorted to n'... | |
 | John Wilson - 1828 - 316 pages
...thy study for me, and give me leave to be gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves...out still: — I find that rather grows than fails." When speaking about the propagation of the gospel among the Indians, he remarked, " There is a cloud,... | |
 | John Wilson (of Bombay.) - 1828 - 320 pages
...gone." Having been asked how he did, he answered, " Alas ! I have lost every thing ; my understand' ing leaves me, — my memory fails me, — my utterance...still : — I find that rather grows than fails." When speaking about the propagation of the gospel among the Indians, he remarked, " There is a cloud,... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1830 - 144 pages
...him for public employment, he reflected that he did good as he had opportunity. ' Alas!' said he, ' I have lost every thing. My understanding leaves me,...fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still.' So great was his charity, that his salary was often distributed for the relief of his needy neighbours,... | |
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Alas, I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails. 
