Recreations of a Merchant; Or, The Christian Sketch-book ...

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Crocker & Brewster, D.K. Hitchcock & G.N. Thomson, 1836 - 192 sider

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Side 147 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me in ; naked and ye clothed me ; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me." "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Side 17 - Deems him a cipher in the works of God, Receives advantage from his noiseless hours, Of which she little dreams. Perhaps she owes Her sunshine and her rain, her blooming spring And plenteous harvest, to the prayer he makes, When, Isaac-like, the solitary saint Walks forth to meditate at eventide, And think on her who thinks not for herself.
Side 16 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Side 20 - I ENVY no quality of the mind or intellect in others — not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty...
Side 107 - Cowdery, to ordain you unto this first Priesthood which you have received, that you might be called and ordained even as Aaron : and also Elijah, unto whom I have committed the keys of the power of turning the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers...
Side 135 - they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, ' know the Lord ;' for all shall know him, from the least to the greatest.
Side 141 - Ix. 12) until in the end, the kingdoms of this world shall have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ (Rev.
Side 133 - ... clear as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners...
Side 139 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them ; for I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Side 191 - To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire.

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