The Town of Cowper: Or, The Literary and Historical Associations of Olney and Its NeighborhoodS. Lor, Marston & Company, 1893 - 224 páginas |
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... missionaries , concludes with , " I do not look for miracles , but if God were to work one in our day , I should not wonder if it were in favour of Dr. Carey . " As Newton approached his eightieth year his memory and physical powers ...
... missionaries , concludes with , " I do not look for miracles , but if God were to work one in our day , I should not wonder if it were in favour of Dr. Carey . " As Newton approached his eightieth year his memory and physical powers ...
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... missionary , who had recently joined the church under Mr. Sutcliff . The agreeable infor- mation that his preaching had been instrumental in directing the genius of Carey was communicated to Scott in February 1821 , a few weeks before ...
... missionary , who had recently joined the church under Mr. Sutcliff . The agreeable infor- mation that his preaching had been instrumental in directing the genius of Carey was communicated to Scott in February 1821 , a few weeks before ...
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... Lord , our souls confess , Thy goodness we adore ; A spring whose blessings never fail , A sea without a shore ! " One of the best of missionary hymns , too , is his— " Great God ! the nations of the earth Are 136 THE TOWN OF COWPER .
... Lord , our souls confess , Thy goodness we adore ; A spring whose blessings never fail , A sea without a shore ! " One of the best of missionary hymns , too , is his— " Great God ! the nations of the earth Are 136 THE TOWN OF COWPER .
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... Missionary movement that stirred the whole nation at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century has hitherto been com- pletely ignored . How many are aware that Sutcliff , one of the committee of five who ...
... Missionary movement that stirred the whole nation at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century has hitherto been com- pletely ignored . How many are aware that Sutcliff , one of the committee of five who ...
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... Missionary move- ment . The name of John Sutcliff has long been honoured in the religious world . It is true that he was not a distinguished missionary like the indefatigable Carey , not a ubiquitous worker for the Mission and a ...
... Missionary move- ment . The name of John Sutcliff has long been honoured in the religious world . It is true that he was not a distinguished missionary like the indefatigable Carey , not a ubiquitous worker for the Mission and a ...
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acquaintance afterwards Alice Lorraine ancient Andrew Fuller appearance Artists Baptist Bayard Series beautiful called Carey chancel Clifton CLIFTON REYNES commenced Cowper's Oak death died Digby edit Emberton English Everard Digby father Fuller garden Gauntlett Gayhurst Gentle Life Series George Wrighte gilt Hackleton Hall Hayley hymn illust James John Newton John Sutcliff labours Lady Austen Lady Hesketh Lavendon letter lived London Lord Dartmouth Low's Stand Low's Standard Books Low's Standard Novels Low's Standard Series mansion meeting miles mind ministers Missionary neighbourhood never Newport Pagnell Northampton Olney Church Olney Hymns parish pastor poems poet Cowper prayer preached present published residence Reynes Robert Ryland says Scott sermon Sir Everard Stoke Stoke Goldington stone Stories Sutcliff Thomas thought Throckmorton town trees Unwin vicar Vicarage village vols walk Weston Underwood whilst William William Carey words Wrighte writes wrote Yardley
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Página 47 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Página 55 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 178 - From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
Página 162 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Página 63 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary...
Página 57 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace.
Página 29 - III. Secret of the Island . . The Child of the Cavern . . . The Begum's Fortune .... The Tribulations of a Chinaman The Steam House, 2 vols.: — I.
Página 107 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 50 - SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing in his wings; When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again, A season of clear shining, To cheer it after rain.
Página 56 - Short-lived themselves, to immortalise their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.