Mornings with Mama; Or, Dialogues on Scripture for Young Persons ...W. Whyte & Company, 1833 |
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... dear Mary , have afforded me more gratification , in returning to you after a painful but necessary absence , than your eagerly expressed wish that we should re- sume the course of scriptural readings and con- versations which ...
... dear Mary , have afforded me more gratification , in returning to you after a painful but necessary absence , than your eagerly expressed wish that we should re- sume the course of scriptural readings and con- versations which ...
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MAMA . There is scarcely a word in the Bible , my dear , which does not , more or less , concern us ; and learned men have drawn curious and most unexpected edification from the minutest particulars of the Mosaic ritual . But into these ...
MAMA . There is scarcely a word in the Bible , my dear , which does not , more or less , concern us ; and learned men have drawn curious and most unexpected edification from the minutest particulars of the Mosaic ritual . But into these ...
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... dear little Moses , and his ark of bulrushes ! I have known about him all my life . MAMA . Yes ! as an object of childish sym- pathy . You must now recognise in him the chosen liberator of God's people . Of what tribe was he ? MARY . Of ...
... dear little Moses , and his ark of bulrushes ! I have known about him all my life . MAMA . Yes ! as an object of childish sym- pathy . You must now recognise in him the chosen liberator of God's people . Of what tribe was he ? MARY . Of ...
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... dear child in an ark of bulrushes . What a frail useless thing that must have been , Mama ! It surely could not hold out water even for a moment . MAMA . My dear , the word here translated " bulrushes , " signifies the tall reed called ...
... dear child in an ark of bulrushes . What a frail useless thing that must have been , Mama ! It surely could not hold out water even for a moment . MAMA . My dear , the word here translated " bulrushes , " signifies the tall reed called ...
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... dear . But God had a far higher end in view in thus overruling events than even the reunion of a mother and her child . Had Moses been estranged even in infancy from his people , and brought up entirely at the court of Pharaoh , he ...
... dear . But God had a far higher end in view in thus overruling events than even the reunion of a mother and her child . Had Moses been estranged even in infancy from his people , and brought up entirely at the court of Pharaoh , he ...
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66 MAMA Abiram Abraham Amorites awful Balaam blessed brother called Canaan chapter child children of Israel Christ Christian command countrymen curse dear Mary death deliverance desert disobedience Divine earth earthly Edom Egypt Egyptians Esau evil eyes faith father favour fear first-born flesh forget glory God's golden calf gracious hath heart heathen heaven heavenly Hobab holy honour Horeb human idolatry injunction Israelites Jehovah Jewish Jews Josephus judgment king Kohath Korah land lawgiver LESSON.-Deuteronomy LESSON.-Exodus lest live Lord thy manna means ment merciful Midian miracle Moab MORNING Moses's nation nature never observe ourselves Passover Pharaoh precepts promise prophet punishment raoh rebellion Red Sea remarkable remember Sabbath Scripture servant Sihon Sinai sinful souls spirit suppose surely temporal thee things Thou shalt tion told tribes unto verse whole wicked wilderness wonder words worship
Popular passages
Page 184 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 134 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Page 277 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 261 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Page 70 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 246 - Thou shalt surely give him ; and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Page 160 - But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain * unto them, and they go down quick t into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
Page 298 - Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho ; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel...
Page 275 - And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Page 230 - Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse ; a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day : and a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God...