The Remembrancer: Or, Fragments for Leisure Hours ...Collection of essays and poems that provide children with spiritual and moral guidance. |
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... Father's love , Who clad you in a garb so fair , Ye bid me hope that I may prove An object of his guardian care . Ye bid me hope that He who wrought Such glorious robes for fading grass ; Will not cast off , if humbly sought , His ...
... Father's love , Who clad you in a garb so fair , Ye bid me hope that I may prove An object of his guardian care . Ye bid me hope that He who wrought Such glorious robes for fading grass ; Will not cast off , if humbly sought , His ...
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... Father , that in the exercise of benevolence , there is found a rich reward of peace and happiness . How much , therefore , do those lose who put off for great occasions the exercise of this virtue . The relation of a simple incident ...
... Father , that in the exercise of benevolence , there is found a rich reward of peace and happiness . How much , therefore , do those lose who put off for great occasions the exercise of this virtue . The relation of a simple incident ...
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... father rested with longing earnestness upon his soon to be fatherless children , she attended to the benevolent feelings of the moment , and feebly uttered , " God will be a father to the fatherless . " " Never , " said she , " shall I ...
... father rested with longing earnestness upon his soon to be fatherless children , she attended to the benevolent feelings of the moment , and feebly uttered , " God will be a father to the fatherless . " " Never , " said she , " shall I ...
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... father's rod , Which , though it wounds , he knows will never kill . Around him worlds may into fragments fly , He trusts in God , and , peaceful , mounts on high . M. J. HYMN OF PRAISE . LAUDED be thy name for ever 70 TRUST IN GOD .
... father's rod , Which , though it wounds , he knows will never kill . Around him worlds may into fragments fly , He trusts in God , and , peaceful , mounts on high . M. J. HYMN OF PRAISE . LAUDED be thy name for ever 70 TRUST IN GOD .
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... reason intuitively discerns , or which it gathers from nature . God is the " Father of lights and the Author of concord , " and he cannot darken and distract the human mind by jarring and irre- concilable 74 HUMAN REASON .
... reason intuitively discerns , or which it gathers from nature . God is the " Father of lights and the Author of concord , " and he cannot darken and distract the human mind by jarring and irre- concilable 74 HUMAN REASON .
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Page 30 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 66 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 30 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 31 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 33 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 66 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 129 - And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Page 82 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Page 182 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Page 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.