Text and verse for every day of the year: Scripture passages and parallel selections, from the writings of J.G. Whittier. Arranged by G.W. CartlandHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 145 pages |
Common terms and phrases
ABRAHAM DAVENPORT angels April Fourth Month August Eighth Month BARCLAY OF URY beautiful behold bless brother cast darkness death December Twelfth Month divine dwelleth earth eternal evil eyes faith fall Father fear February Second Month Fifth Month flesh flower forever FRIEND'S BURIAL fruit God's hand hath heart heaven HERMITS hills Holy Ghost hope January First Month JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JOHN iv July Seventh Month June Sixth Month knoweth labor light live looketh Lord LUKE March Third Month MASTER MATT meek mercy MIRIAM November Eleventh Month October Tenth Month peace PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM PHIL pitieth praise pray PROV reap righteousness saith SCOTTISH REFORMERS September Ninth Month shadow shine SNOW-BOUND SONGS soul soweth spirit strength suffer sweet tender thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt trust truth unto voice walk weak WISH OF TO-DAY word
Popular passages
Page 116 - Who shall ascend into heaven ? (that is, to bring Christ down from above ;) or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 83 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 42 - But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Page 86 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 132 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 32 - When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown...
Page 108 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need ; I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Page 91 - And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
Page 109 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh ; yea though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Page 19 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.