Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer

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S.B. Shaw, 1895 - 128 pàgines

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Pàgina 13 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Pàgina 66 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Pàgina 115 - GENTLE Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child ; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to Thee. Fain I would to Thee be brought, Gracious God ! forbid it not ; In the kingdom of Thy grace, Give a little child a place.
Pàgina 114 - Yes, sir ; I was a street thief once." " And why don't you steal any more ?" " Please, sir, I went to the mission-school, and they told me there of God, and of heaven, and of Jesus ; and they taught me 'Thou shalt not steal,' and I'll never steal again, if my father kills me for it.
Pàgina 126 - That thou wilt condescend To tarry in my heart, And ever be my friend. The path of life is dark — I would not go astray ; Oh, let me have thy hand To lead me in the way.
Pàgina 115 - I'll never steal again if my father kills me for it. But please, sir, don't tell him." "My boy ; you must not stay hero ; you'll die. Now you wait patiently here for a little time; I'm going away to see a lady. We will get a better place for you than this.
Pàgina 51 - When eight minutes had fled, the mate told him he had but two minutes to live, and advised him to speak the truth and save his life ; but he replied, with the utmost simplicity and sincerity, by asking the mate if he might pray. The mate said nothing, but nodded his head, and turned as pale as a ghost, and shook with trembling like a reed with the wind. And there, all eyes turned on him...
Pàgina 50 - ... brought on board and provided with food by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly handled in consequence. Day by day he was questioned and requestioned, but always with the same result.
Pàgina 61 - Saviour of sinners. After a little he began to repeat after her ; as he went on his heart was interested and he broke out into an earnest prayer for himself; bewailed his sins, confessed and promised to forsake them ; entered into covenant with God ; light broke out upon him in his darkness ; how long he prayed he did not know ; he seemed to have forgotten his child in his prayer. When he came to himself he raised his head from the bed on which he had rested it ; there lay the little speaker, a lovely...
Pàgina 113 - It was vacant. He saw a ladder pushed through the ceiling. Thinking that perhaps some poor creature had crept up there, he climbed the ladder, drew himself through the hole, and found himself under the rafters. There was no light but that which came through a bull's-eye in place of a tile.

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