The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

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Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1849
 

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Page 263 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 394 - Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Page 88 - And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey ; Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way.
Page 230 - As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Page 323 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 323 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Page 96 - GREAT Jehovah, we adore thee, God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, joined in glory On the same eternal throne; Endless praises To Jehovah, Three in One ! iO* 7s & 6s.
Page 333 - PROVERBS FOR THE PEOPLE: Or, Illustrations of Practical Godliness drawn from the Book of Wisdom. BY EL MAGOON. 12mo. Price 90 cents. " He is quaint, sententious, — he has indeed the three great qualities, ' pith, point and pathos,' — and always enforces high and noble sentiments.
Page 126 - I would beget content," says Izaak Walton, " and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of nature, and therefore trust in him.
Page 256 - It is pleasing to reflect that the public mind of England has softened while it has ripened, and that we have in the course of ages become not only a wiser, but also a kinder, people.

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