Romance Without Fiction: Or, Sketches from the Portfolio of an Old MissionaryWesleyan Conference Office, 1877 - 538 pages |
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Page 459 - Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 121 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 198 - 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 261 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 430 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 219 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 535 - Illustrations. The Breakfast Half-Hour. Addresses on Religious and Moral Topics. By the Rev. HR BURTON. Twenty-five Illustrations. Gleanings in Natural History for Young People. Profusely Illustrated. Broken Purposes; or, the Good Time Coming. By LILLIB MONTFORT.
Page 299 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh ; The Lord shall have them in derision, Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, And vex them in His sore displeasure. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.