Lectures to Children: Familiarly Illustrating Important Truth

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J.H. Butler, 1844 - 220 páginas
 

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Página 220 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Página 214 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Página 215 - You are going now, said they, to the paradise of God, wherein you shall see the tree of life, and eat of the never-fading fruits thereof; and when you come there, you shall have white robes given you, and your walk and talk shall be every day with the King, even all the days of eternity.
Página 205 - And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors ; for their works follow with them.
Página 78 - With many tears, and closed without a cloud. They set as sets the morning star, which goes • Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Página 207 - Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds: no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, While angels watch the soft repose.
Página 93 - The heathen will hasten to welcome the time, The day-spring the prophet in vision once saw — When the beams of Messiah will 'lumine each clime, And the Isles of the Ocean shall wait for his law.
Página 174 - ... and demanded the cause of my grief. I told him the plain case, confessing that I had ruined myself wilfully, and deserved no pity. He blamed my rashness, and asked if I should be wiser, supposing I had my ring again. I could hardly .answer to...
Página 166 - He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.
Página 77 - twas brought, and by her placed. She looked upon its face, that neither smiled Nor wept, nor knew who gazed upon't ; and laid Her hand upon its little breast, and sought For it, with look that seemed to penetrate The heavens, unutterable blessings, such As God to dying parents only granted, For infants left behind them in the world. " God keep my child !" we heard her say, and heard No more.

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