A Memoir of Harriet Ware: First Superintendent of the Children's Home, in the City of ProvidenceGeorge H. Whitney, 1850 - 151 páginas |
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A Memoir of Harriet Ware: First Superintendent of the Children's Home, in ... Francis Wayland Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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Página 133 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Página 132 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Página 11 - Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee ! My flesh and my heart faileth ; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Página 114 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged above the common walks of virtuous life. Quite on the verge of heaven.
Página 147 - He confessed that immediately on his return home, he fell for the first time on his knees, and with crying and tears poured forth the strong emotion of his heart in the language of the publican, " God be merciful to me a sinner.
Página 13 - Now he actually does say that no man cometh unto the Father but by the Son, — and that his is the only name given under heaven whereby men can be saved, — and that he will be magnified only in the appointed Mediator, — and that Christ is all in all, — and that there is no other foundation on which man can lay, and that he who believeth on him shall not be confounded. He further speaks of our personal preparation for heaven — and here, too, may his...
Página 39 - It is so long since I have written to you that I really almost forget when it was, and you have been so excellent a correspondent that my silence is the more unpardonable. I received the other day the very pretty little bronzes you sent me, which do credit to the Prussian artists. They have really contrived to give a sharpness and fineness of execution...
Página 2 - Beside his more direct services in the work of the ministry, it was his joy to follow in the footsteps of Him who "went about doing good.
Página 53 - the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
Página 58 - The gentleman who assisted in organizing the school, happened to be, of all men, the most suitable for the work. He could excite a deep interest, when most other men might as well have been asleep.