Gift for the Holidays

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American Sunday-school union, 1840 - Children - 175 pages
 

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Page 175 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 174 - Where is thy God ? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 174 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Page 145 - BE you to others kind and true, As you'd have others be to you; And neither do nor say to men Whate'er you would not take again.
Page 166 - With that ease which high company gives, (for the Coat Had been much in the world, and in circles of note,) " Friend Pillow," says he, " why that look of distress ? By your rumpled condition you've slept ill, I guess ? Or perhaps that your master is gone you are sorry ; He's a very fine fellow ; if so, I feel for ye : I'm always delighted to go where he goes, And mix in the mirth that around him he throws. Gay, wealthy, and witty, and wanton, and young, Made for...
Page 166 - why that look of distress ? By your rumpled condition you've slept ill, I guess ? Or perhaps that your master is gone you are sorry ; He's a very fine fellow ; if so, I feel for ye : I'm always delighted to go where he goes, And mix in the mirth that around him he throws. Gay, wealthy, and witty, and wanton, and young...
Page 166 - it's my turn to speak, If I let you alone you'll go on for a week; Since you say, that with you he's as light as a feather, Pray, keep him, or come to bed always together. For the moment you're off...
Page 12 - He strongly deprecated all undue anxiety about providing for the wants of the body, pointing out to his hearers God's especial care of the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field...
Page 162 - Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to hill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Page 36 - This my son, or this my daughter, was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." But perhaps you reply: "My parents and friends are altogether unacquainted with religion; they live careless of God, and have taught me to do the same." Alas ! if this is the case, it is a lamentable one ; yet perhaps youthful piety might render you profitable to them. Do you love them, and can you...

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