Parting Advice to a Youth on Leaving His Sunday SchoolB. Waugh and T. Mason, 1833 - 80 pages |
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... live . When a vessel is built , it is to be launched on the wide water , and to be taken into actual service . You are commencing your life , and all the great principles you have learned will be needed in your daily practice . If you ...
... live . When a vessel is built , it is to be launched on the wide water , and to be taken into actual service . You are commencing your life , and all the great principles you have learned will be needed in your daily practice . If you ...
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... live , and teach you to die . Applying diligently to this book , and directing your life after it , you shall be an inheritor of such riches , as neither the covetous shall with- draw from you , neither thief shall steal , neither yet ...
... live , and teach you to die . Applying diligently to this book , and directing your life after it , you shall be an inheritor of such riches , as neither the covetous shall with- draw from you , neither thief shall steal , neither yet ...
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... live when your body is dead , and be happy or miserable for ever . The body is made of flesh , and blood , and bones ; these , you know , cannot think . The matter , of which every object around us is form- ed , does not , cannot think ...
... live when your body is dead , and be happy or miserable for ever . The body is made of flesh , and blood , and bones ; these , you know , cannot think . The matter , of which every object around us is form- ed , does not , cannot think ...
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... live in your sins , and go on in them till , in some dreadful moment , you die and perish ? 66 Say , have you an arm like God , That you his will oppose ? Fear you not that iron rod With which he breaks his foes ? Canst thou stand in ...
... live in your sins , and go on in them till , in some dreadful moment , you die and perish ? 66 Say , have you an arm like God , That you his will oppose ? Fear you not that iron rod With which he breaks his foes ? Canst thou stand in ...
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... live for ever , must be of infi- nite worth . The favour of the great Creator of the universe must be the " one thing needful ; " nothing can , for a moment , be put in competition with it . All the world , with its smiles and its ...
... live for ever , must be of infi- nite worth . The favour of the great Creator of the universe must be the " one thing needful ; " nothing can , for a moment , be put in competition with it . All the world , with its smiles and its ...
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Page 45 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 56 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 45 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 25 - Likewise, however it be accounted for, the criminal commerce of the sexes corrupts and depraves the mind and moral character more than any single species of vice whatsoever. That ready perception of guilt, that prompt and decisive resolution against it, which constitutes a virtuous character, is seldom found in persons addicted to these indulgences. They prepare an easy admission for every sin that seeks it ; are, in low life, usually the first stage in men's progress to the most desperate...
Page 50 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 28 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 18 - To him give all the prophets witness, that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Page 20 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 59 - ... Stoop, stoop!" I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, "You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Page 19 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.