A Biographical Sketch of Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.American Tract Society, 1862 - 207 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 191 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James — " for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
الصفحة 149 - So shall'. thy seed be,) and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb ; he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
الصفحة 35 - Mrs. Judson was the author of those eloquent and forcible appeals to the government which prepared them by degrees for submission to terms of peace, never expected by any who knew the hauteur and inflexible pride of the Burman court.
الصفحة 15 - ... righteousness, and peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost.
الصفحة 36 - When the unfeeling avarice of our keepers confined us inside, or made our feet fast in the stocks, she. like a ministering angel, never ceased her applications to the government, until she was authorized to communicate to us the grateful news of our enlargement, or of a respite from our galling oppressions.
الصفحة 137 - Lucknow are in peril ; Agra is besieged ; Delhi is still the focus of mutiny and rebellion. You must make great sacrifices if you would obtain great results. Three cities have to be saved ; two strong places to be dtsblockaded.
الصفحة 34 - Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk in returning to the house. O, how many, many times...
الصفحة 49 - They left, indeed, he thought, at the door of the place of assembly the husks and shell of their creed, but brought into the midst of their brethren the precious kernel. They laid aside, for a moment, at the threshold, the canons...
الصفحة 35 - And while on this subject, the overflowings of grateful feelings, on behalf of myself and fellow prisoners, compel me to add a tribute of public thanks to that amiable and humane female, who, though living at a distance of two miles from our prison, without any means of conveyance, and very feeble in health, forgot her own comfort and infirmity, and almost every day visited us, sought out and administered to our wants, and contributed in every way to alleviate our misery.
الصفحة 41 - were men to worship the Father now. To the true worshippers any place might become a place for worship. Even the pagoda of Shivey Dagoon might be none other than the house of God and the gate of heaven. Accordingly it was announced that that would be the place of meeting. An officer relates that, as he was wandering round about the pagoda on one occasion, he heard the sound, strange enough as he thought, of singing. He listened, and found that it was certainly psalm singing.