Evergreen, Volume 1Salkeld, Hitchcock, & Stafford, 1844 - Christian literature, American |
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... rests on the sacred mementos of all the dead , and I read the silent yet speaking inscriptions , I am forcibly taught , in this land of vanishing shadows , “ Prepare to meet thy God . " Having dismounted and secured my horse to a branch ...
... rests on the sacred mementos of all the dead , and I read the silent yet speaking inscriptions , I am forcibly taught , in this land of vanishing shadows , “ Prepare to meet thy God . " Having dismounted and secured my horse to a branch ...
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... rests even now a special duty to the land of his birthright , and which , if neglected , will be at a most fearful peril . In other lands he may labor for some limited fixed results , but here he may implant principles which will bless ...
... rests even now a special duty to the land of his birthright , and which , if neglected , will be at a most fearful peril . In other lands he may labor for some limited fixed results , but here he may implant principles which will bless ...
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... rest , Like vernal odors , fill his soul ; And hope renew'd within his breast , Regains her gentle , soft control . Oh ! thus from souls oppress'd with care , And worn by sorrow's toilsome day , Thy Gospel , CHRIST ! can chase despair ...
... rest , Like vernal odors , fill his soul ; And hope renew'd within his breast , Regains her gentle , soft control . Oh ! thus from souls oppress'd with care , And worn by sorrow's toilsome day , Thy Gospel , CHRIST ! can chase despair ...
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... rest ? In his reviving beams , at early morn Thy mirth this day began : -ere long his rays Will all have vanished , —and the silver horn Of the new moon on which thy wond'ring gaze Was fix'd last night , shall peep o'er yonder hill ...
... rest ? In his reviving beams , at early morn Thy mirth this day began : -ere long his rays Will all have vanished , —and the silver horn Of the new moon on which thy wond'ring gaze Was fix'd last night , shall peep o'er yonder hill ...
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... rest . " Homeward we turn , Isle of Columba's cell , Where Christian piety's soul - cheering spark ( Kindled from heaven between the light and dark Of time ) shone like the morning star , FAREWELL ! - Let us never ascribe any thing to ...
... rest . " Homeward we turn , Isle of Columba's cell , Where Christian piety's soul - cheering spark ( Kindled from heaven between the light and dark Of time ) shone like the morning star , FAREWELL ! - Let us never ascribe any thing to ...
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Page 154 - Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 146 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 94 - Christian life: remembering always, that baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour CHRIST, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 287 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical...
Page 253 - And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me.
Page 113 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 154 - And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 286 - Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.
Page 314 - I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb, Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 35 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.