From Behind the Veil: Or Life Studies from the Book of Job

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E. Marlborough & Company, 1903 - 212 pages
 

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Page 167 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 76 - Is there a thing beneath the sun That strives with Thee my heart to share ? Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone, The Lord of every motion there ! Then shall my heart from earth be free, When it hath found repose in Thee.
Page 176 - I rest upon thy word ; The promise is for me ; My succour and salvation, Lord, Shall surely come from thee ; But let me still abide, Nor from my hope remove, Till thou my patient spirit guide Into thy perfect love.
Page 131 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Page 116 - By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Page 167 - AS helpless as a child who clings £\ Fast to his father's arm, And casts his weakness on the strength That keeps him safe from harm ; So I, my Father, cling to Thee, And thus I every hour Would link my earthly feebleness To Thine almighty power.
Page 153 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 108 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 55 - Though now ascended up on high, He bends on earth a Brother's eye ; Partaker of the human name, He knows the frailty of our frame.
Page 113 - Bread of our souls, whereon we feed, True manna from on high : Our guide and chart, wherein we read Of realms beyond the sky...

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