Elizabeth Fry, Or, The Christian PhilanthropistAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1851 - 450 Seiten |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 238 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Seite 234 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Seite 296 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Seite 47 - For the poor ye have always with you; but Me ye have not always.
Seite 258 - God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.
Seite 59 - From first to last, this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of Time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow ; And evermore beseeching men, with tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe, and live.
Seite 79 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
Seite 231 - And deemed the deep opake would blot her beams ; But, melting like a wreath of snow, it hangs In folds of wavy silver round, and clothes The orb with richer...
Seite 427 - She sought her way through all things vile and base, And made a prison a religious place : Fighting her way — the way that angels fight With powers of darkness — to let in the light...
Seite 110 - They saw no more an assemblage of abandoned and shameless creatures, half naked and half drunk, rather demanding than requesting charity. The prison no more resounded with obscenity, and imprecations, and licentious songs ; and, to use the coarse but the just expression of one who knew the prison well, ' This hell upon earth,' exhibited the appearance of an industrious manufactory, or a well-regulated family.