A Circuit Rider's WifeConstable, 1911 - 307 pages |
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Page 283 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 170 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page 181 - After you are dead it doesn't matter if you were not successful in a business way. No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Page 245 - OMAY thy powerful word Inspire a feeble worm To rush into thy kingdom, Lord, And take it as by storm. 2 O may we all improve The grace already given, To seize the crown of perfect love, And scale the mount of heaven.
Page 171 - Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may win Christ...
Page 110 - ... him going where he will be, unbaptized." So it was done, the doctor, the old woman and William standing around the little bier, and William saying the holy words himself. And there, high up on the mountain under the very eave of heaven, swinging deep in his brown cradle of earth, the...
Page 7 - They never go astray, they are the gentle maiden sisters of all souls, the faded feminine love-psalms of a benighted ministry who wither and grow old without ever suspecting that their hope was marriage no less than it is the hope of the giddiest girl. However, a preacher rarely takes one of them for his first wife. It is only after he has been left a widower with a house full of children that he turns imploring lovelooks in their direction. And whatever is true in other Churches, it will be found...
Page 107 - Co., Philadelphia, 1910) By Corra Harris CHAPTER VII THE LITTLE ITINERANT— AND OTHERS On this circuit, in a house nearly as open as a barn, on a freezing winter night, our baby was born. The gaunt, dark room, the roaring fire upon the wide hearth, the ugly little kettle of herb tea steaming on the live coals, and the old mountain midwife, bending with her hideous scroll face over me, are all a part of the memory of an inimortal pain.
Page 111 - ... dead in trespasses and sins, who felt themselves lost and undone." So we began to be aware of the children as of strange young misguided angels in our midst, and it was a rigid test of the genuineness of William's character that they loved him. Whenever I have seen a particularly good person whom children avoided I have always known that there was something rancid about his piety, something cankered in his mercy-seat faculties. They are not higher critics, children are not, but they are infallible...