Home: Or, The Way to Make Home HappyJ. Mason, 1854 - 179 pages |
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Page 9 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 144 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 29 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 31 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope "springs exultant on triumphant wing" That thus they all shall meet in future days; There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 8 - No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.
Page 20 - Tis done: the great transaction's done, I am my Lord's, and He is mine: He drew me and I followed on, Charmed to confess the voice divine, 4 Now rest, my long-divided heart, Fixed on this blissful centre, rest; With ashes who would grudge to part, When called on angels
Page 57 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Page 109 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord: shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing; To show that the Lord is upright; he is my rock : and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 109 - Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 152 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.