Memoirs of Mrs. Ruth Patten: Of Hartford, Conn., with Letters and Incidental Subjects

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P. Canfield, 1834 - 148 sider
In 1785, after the death of her husband William, Ruth Wheelock Patten opened a school in Hartford that educated approximately 4000 girls by the time it closed in 1825. The school became known for the needlework of its students.
 

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Side 102 - But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Side 33 - Come, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 "Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus.
Side 82 - WHAT shall I render to my God For all his kindness shown ? My feet shall visit thine abode, My songs address thy throne. 2 Among the saints that fill thy house, My offerings shall be paid ; There shall my zeal perform the vows My soul in anguish made.
Side 145 - I am greatly afflicted"; I said in my consternation, "Everyone is a liar." What shall I return to the LORD for all his bounty to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
Side 148 - The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon you and give you peace, both now and forever more.
Side 132 - Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate ? Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And thine to us so great ? 5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove! With all thy quickening powers; Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love, And that shall kindle ours.
Side 93 - AH ! lovely appearance of death, -*-*- What sight upon earth is so fair ? Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare...
Side 136 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Side 48 - Arrest us, and cut short our days. 2 Spare us, O Lord, aloud we pray, Nor let our sun go down at noon ; Thy years are one eternal day, And must thy children die so soon ! 3 Yet, in the midst of death and grief, This thought our sorrow shall assuage ; " Our Father and our Saviour live : Christ is the same through every age.
Side 104 - As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him : rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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