The Power of Christian Benevolence: Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon

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Hopkins, Bridgman, 1852 - 486 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 370 - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Pàgina 430 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Pàgina 48 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, Nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Pàgina 62 - God generally works ;' and then my heart would sink within me. Thus I lived on, week after week, till more than half the term was gone. But while man looketh on the outward appearance, God judgeth righteous judgment. I now believe that the eye which saw seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal...
Pàgina 430 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Pàgina 474 - Hope perishes under the weight of this iron bondage. There are in the Koran no forward glances to a coming golden age when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, such as irradiate the hymns and prophecies of the Old Testament.
Pàgina 186 - During the past year, my heart has so yearned over the adult female youth, in the common walks of life, that it has sometimes seemed as though a fire were shut up in my bones.
Pàgina 116 - Elias, to prepare the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight ; St.
Pàgina 69 - I should be glad to tell you all, but I cannot describe the scenes I have witnessed. It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.
Pàgina 78 - I hope, my dear mother, that all your afflictions, by leading you to look at things unseen and eternal, will work out for you a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

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