The sick-beds of the saints, the flower-beds of God

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Hamilton, Adams & Company, 1877 - 16 halaman
 

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Halaman 25 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Halaman 55 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Halaman 25 - Spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Halaman 67 - Unfading HOPE! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour! Oh! then, thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power! What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye! Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey The morning dream of life's eternal day— Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin, And all the phoenix spirit burns within!
Halaman 4 - It sometimes seemed to me," she said, "as if I were a little bird whom the Lord had placed in a cage, and that I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world.
Halaman 30 - Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Halaman 126 - ... there is scarce any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen ; Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup, how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, — that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned.
Halaman 4 - A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there, Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee.
Halaman 91 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me : And to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Halaman 72 - If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable.

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