Stray Leaves: Poetry and ProseJohn Mason, 1855 - 288 pages |
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Page 169 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.
Page 44 - Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesua. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Page 69 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 254 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy, ) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
Page 254 - The hungry have found food, the thirsty a living, spring, the feeble a staff, and the victorious warfarer songs. of welcome and strains of music; and as long as each man asks on account of his wants, and asks what he wants, no man will discover aught amiss or deficient in the vast and many-chambered storehouse. But if instead of this, an idler or...
Page 279 - In vain Thou struggles! to get free, I never will unloose my hold ! Art Thou the Man that died for me ? The secret of Thy love unfold ; Wrestling, I will not let Thee go, Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
Page 279 - The Holy Spirit bore witness with his spirit that he was a child of God.
Page 179 - When an Indian maiden dies, they imprison a young bird until it first begins to try its power of song, and then, loading it with...
Page 179 - ... grave, in the belief that it will not fold its wings nor close its eyes until it has flown to the spirit-land and delivered its precious burden of affection to the loved and lost.
Page 58 - If you truly love me, prepare to follow me. If you earnestly wish to see me again, seek not the living among the dead, but arise and become 'a follower of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises: