A Short Account of the Life, Sickness, and Death of Elizabeth Merritt: A Child Eleven Years of Age : Also Some Account of the Last Illness of Ann Waring, Late of the City of New-York

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W. Alexander, 1820 - 36 עמודים

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עמוד 23 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
עמוד 27 - And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths : for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
עמוד 27 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day; and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing.
עמוד 21 - The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, any more in worldly happiness than in other things.
עמוד 18 - Again, the sound of these things doth not so pass the ears of them that are most loose and dissolute in life, but it causeth them one time or other to wish, " O that I might die the death of the righteous, and that my end might be like his!
עמוד 34 - Let others do as they may, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." It is a distinguished honor to be selected by the commander of an army for the secret service, and sent on the perilous mission of spy. Only men of known sagacity, cool, self-contained men, who are fruitful in personal resources, and confessedly men of high courage, are...
עמוד 13 - His talents as a reader by nature superior, were heightened by the excitement of the occasion ; and the effect upon a numerous audience, to use the language of one who heard it, was " indescribable and overpowering." They remembered the words of the Psalmist, " Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength...
עמוד 22 - Sunday ; she invites her sons to come and receive from her the knowledge of the Fear of the Lord ; for the Fear of the Lord is the beginning...
עמוד 22 - I might not have known the things that belong to my peace ; but now I cannot say I do not know them, for I do and rejoice in them, and my earnest solicitude is, that all might live more in the fear of the Lord ; « for the fear of the Lord is the beginning

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