...out of the Catechism, — " To learn and labour truly to get his own living, and to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." * That mother, in the letter already given, attributes * "Wellington the Instrument of God,"...

...1843, p. 60; or Archdeacon Grant's Bampton Lectures, p. 351, ed. 1845. object of doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. The year 1847 was marked by the erection of three new sees within the limits of his diocese. Bishop...

...bid the men abandon their profession ; but merely requires of them the performance of " their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call them." See the last note on St. Luke vii. 9. The same remark applies equally to what was said to the...

...bid the men abandon their profession ; but merely requires of them the performance of "their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call them." See the last note on St. Luke vii. 9. The same remark applies equally to what was said to the...

...suited to the situation she filled, and in her own temper and cheerfulness shewed she was striving to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. Amelia's first letter was a great struggle, — she could not overcome her love of home, and at the...

...personally estimable, and even religious men, who undoubtedly supposed they were doing their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. I knew of exalted and beautiful traits in the character of each that would extort the admiration...

...bolder man, seeing that although he hated a military life, he, to the very utmost, did his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; and if half be true of what is told of him, there never was knight of the actual days of chivalry...

...endeavour to perform that which was the highest honour to which they could attain, — to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. However, he did not come there for the purpose of making a long address, but solely for the purpose...

...Was this her motive ? Oh, no, no ! with a clear conscience, Minna could say her motive was only to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; not to make her cross, but to take it up when it lay in her path, and to follow Him, not in ways...

...not at all dazzled, not at all inflated, but prayerfully and painfully endeavouring to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. He entered upon his high office in October, 1 793. At the end of the year, he wrote in his private...