The Christian keepsake and missionary annual, ed. by W. Ellis. [Continued as] Christian keepsakerev William Ellis |
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... strong is his repeated command , that Isaac shall not be conducted back to the land of his own birth , even though the kinswoman selected should refuse to come and meet him in Canaan . In obedience to the Heavenly mandate , he had ...
... strong is his repeated command , that Isaac shall not be conducted back to the land of his own birth , even though the kinswoman selected should refuse to come and meet him in Canaan . In obedience to the Heavenly mandate , he had ...
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... strong affections . An only son , and much caressed by his parents , their indulgent tenderness seems only to have fed , the flame of his filial piety . With respectful and con- fiding obedience , he accompanied his father to the ...
... strong affections . An only son , and much caressed by his parents , their indulgent tenderness seems only to have fed , the flame of his filial piety . With respectful and con- fiding obedience , he accompanied his father to the ...
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... strong affection for his country which often visits old men , made him request , as a last favour , to be buried in his native land . He wished that his ashes might repose with those of his fathers , that they might be united in death ...
... strong affection for his country which often visits old men , made him request , as a last favour , to be buried in his native land . He wished that his ashes might repose with those of his fathers , that they might be united in death ...
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... strong and beautiful in its proportions , with waving branches and luxuriant foliage ; but the storm came upon him , and he now stands like the lone and solitary trunk , its branches torn off , broken , and scattered , " shelterless ...
... strong and beautiful in its proportions , with waving branches and luxuriant foliage ; but the storm came upon him , and he now stands like the lone and solitary trunk , its branches torn off , broken , and scattered , " shelterless ...
Page 84
... strong arguments to prove to him that God was not his God . And yet that solitary , lon e sufferer stands firm , clinging to his God with an unbroken and un relaxing grasp , exclaiming in his darkest hour , " Though He slay me , yet ...
... strong arguments to prove to him that God was not his God . And yet that solitary , lon e sufferer stands firm , clinging to his God with an unbroken and un relaxing grasp , exclaiming in his darkest hour , " Though He slay me , yet ...
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Page 143 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land ; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 71 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed GOD in their hearts.
Page 102 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 185 - Blessed be .the LORD GOD of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of* salvation for us, in the house of his servant David...
Page 50 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 69 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said : — Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : And here shall thy proud waves be stayed...
Page 166 - And when they saw Him they were amazed : and His mother said unto Him, Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us ? behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.
Page 128 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 54 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 77 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.