A Memorial to Eldress Anna White, and Elder Daniel Offord

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North Family of Shakers, 1912 - 182 pages
 

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Page 142 - PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered, or unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast...
Page 175 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Page 104 - I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Page 109 - I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, to any fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 177 - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Page 100 - Right forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 114 - To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls!
Page 61 - And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. Then shall the end come.
Page 83 - If it hold a welcome true, Opening wide its door of greeting To the many, not the few ; If we share our Father's bounty With the needy, day by day, 'Tis because our hearts remember This was ever mother's way. Sometimes when our...
Page 100 - The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul; Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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