The Life of Jean Frederic Oberlin, Pastor of the Ban de la Roche ...

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Religious Tract Society, 1882 - Всего страниц: 201
 

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Стр. 73 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
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Стр. 55 - Lord," living only to, and for, Him. Thus you will be enabled to overcome difficulties ; you will find comfort and peace in believing, and He will protect, guide, and bless you. Your work will prosper, not perhaps in the manner which you design, but in the way which God has purposed. " I have no other end in view in this exhortation than your...
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Стр. 169 - A fine youth, of a generous disposition, made her an offer of marriage, and as she appeared unwilling to accept him, he declared that if necessary he would wait ten years to gain her hand. She then acknowledged that her motive for refusing him was the grief it would occasion her to part from her little orphans. " He who takes the mother takes the children also,
Стр. 105 - ... favour of making me your adopted daughter. Do not, I entreat you, give me any more wages ; for as you treat me like your child in every other respect, I earnestly wish you to do so in this particular also. Little is needful for the support of my body. My shoes, and stockings, and sabots, will cost something, but when I want them I can ask you for them, as a child applies to its father. "Oh ! I entreat you, dear papa, grant me this favour, and condescend to regard me as your most tenderly attached...
Стр. 184 - If five years are necessary to bring a ray of light from Sirius to this world, though travelling at the rate of twelve millions of miles in a minute, how much swifter must the communications of spirits be ! (Dan. ix. 21.) What is so swift as thought...
Стр. 104 - I have before me two stones, which are in imitation of precious stones. They are both perfectly alike in colour ; they are of the same water, clear, pure, and clean ; yet there is a marked difference between them, as to their lustre and brilliancy. One has a dazzling brightness, while the other is dull, so that the eye passes over it, and derives no pleasure from the sight. What can be the reason of such a difference ? It is this.
Стр. 104 - Had these stones been endued with life, so as to have been capable of feeling what they underwent, the one which has received eighty facets would have thought itself very unhappy, and would have envied the fate of the other, which, having received but eight, had undergone but a tenth part of its sufferings.

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