Parting Advice to a Youth on Leaving His Sunday SchoolB. Waugh and T. Mason, 1833 - 80 pages |
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... things of the greatest importance ; and now that you are going to leave this school I cannot bid you farewell without expressing my sincere concern for your real welfare . As I have no object in view but your good , — your own good ...
... things of the greatest importance ; and now that you are going to leave this school I cannot bid you farewell without expressing my sincere concern for your real welfare . As I have no object in view but your good , — your own good ...
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You ments , your temper , and your conduct . will not be one thing in profession , and another in action . Your love to God , your concern to please him , and your benevolence to your fel- low creatures , will be shown in your whole ...
You ments , your temper , and your conduct . will not be one thing in profession , and another in action . Your love to God , your concern to please him , and your benevolence to your fel- low creatures , will be shown in your whole ...
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... dear young friend , that " to sin against God , is to do any thing which God forbids , or not to do what he commands us . " The law of God requires obedience in the heart as well as the life , and extends to our PARTING ADVICE . 13.
... dear young friend , that " to sin against God , is to do any thing which God forbids , or not to do what he commands us . " The law of God requires obedience in the heart as well as the life , and extends to our PARTING ADVICE . 13.
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... thing which was false ? Have you sought , above all things , the kingdom of God and his righteous- ness ? Have you done to others , as you would have them do to you ? Have you been supreme- ly careful to please God , not only in your ...
... thing which was false ? Have you sought , above all things , the kingdom of God and his righteous- ness ? Have you done to others , as you would have them do to you ? Have you been supreme- ly careful to please God , not only in your ...
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... thing . He knows us altogether . And he has solemnly declared , that " though hand join in hand , " to prevent it , yet the wicked shall not go un- punished . " " God will bring every secret thing into judgment . " " The soul that ...
... thing . He knows us altogether . And he has solemnly declared , that " though hand join in hand , " to prevent it , yet the wicked shall not go un- punished . " " God will bring every secret thing into judgment . " " The soul that ...
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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.