 | W. H. Daniels - 1880 - 382 halaman
...uttered them, and I fervently followed him : ' We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God ; and that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives ; that it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that... | |
 | Francis Procter - 1881 - 552 halaman
...contentedness and patience, of true justice, of temperance and purity, of peaceableness and charity.' ' That it may please Thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives, upon all that are persecuted for truth and righteousness' sake, upon all that are in affliction.' It... | |
 | George Prentice - 1883 - 558 halaman
...uttered them, and I fervently followed him : " ' We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God ; and that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives ; that it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that... | |
 | Various - 1885 - 344 halaman
...he eats alone. I shall always think of him for the future when I hear that clause in our Litany : ' That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives.' Surely this is the very saddest of all prisoners; kept within the four walls of his prison by disease... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - 248 halaman
...his life shall lose it : and he that loseth his life, for my sake, shall find it." n MARY CARPENTER " That it may please Thee ... to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives." MAKY CARPENTER was thirty-eight years old when Mrs. Fry died in 1845. We do not hear, in reading the... | |
 | Ecclesiological Society - 1890 - 482 halaman
...can there be possibly attached more significance or meaning to that beautiful suffrage in the Litany, "That it may please Thee ... to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives," than in this place and within these walls. It is diffic ifficult to assign a date to its first foundation,... | |
 | John Dowden - 1899 - 304 halaman
...contemporary " That it may please Thee to protect from danger all that travel by land or by water." " That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives." The ancient Litanies gained much by allowing the mind to dwell on the several distinct thoughts presented.... | |
 | 1902 - 248 halaman
...in Eastern lands, and who J\ once visited a Chinese prison, tells * us that the words in the Litany, "That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives," have had a new meaning for her ever since, and indeed those who have any acquaintance with the sufferings... | |
 | Louise Betts Edwards - 1903 - 446 halaman
...ravished her imagination afresh every Sunday of her childhood, with the offering of the petition, " That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives." Well, now she was a captive, and how did it feel ? Chiefly stuffy ; for in a room nearly large enough... | |
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God; and that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives... 
