History of the North Russell Street M.E. Church and Sabbath School: With a Brief Account of St. John's Church at the Odeon

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D. S. King
J.P. Magee, 1861 - 99 páginas
 

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Página 70 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. . We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Página 60 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 70 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...
Página 64 - College, and in 1820 a member of the convention for the revision of the State Constitution. In this able and dignified body he held a conspicuous rank.
Página 64 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me.
Página 70 - There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Página 34 - Passing away." It is written on the trees, As their young leaves glistening play, And on brighter things than these — " Passing away." It is written on the brow Where the spirit's ardent ray Lives, burns, and triumphs now —
Página 63 - Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man...
Página 79 - Chrislian, a devoled minisler, and a faithful pastor in the Church of God. His time, talents, and property, were all spent in his Master's service. His last and dying effort in the pulpit was made in Hampden, several months before his death. His text was Phil, iii, 21 :" Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Página 60 - Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground...

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