Divine Guidance: Memorial of Allen W. Dodge

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D. Appleton, 1881 - 328 páginas

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Página 18 - No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at Muskingum.
Página 312 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Página 324 - AH, my dear angry Lord, Since Thou dost love, yet strike ; Cast down, yet help afford ; Sure I will do the like. I will complain, yet praise ; I will bewail, approve ; And all my sour-sweet days I will lament, and love.
Página 18 - Never, probably, in the history of the world did a measure of legislation so accurately fulfill and yet so mightily exceed the anticipations of the legislators. The ordinance has been well described as having been a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night in the settlement and government of the northwestern states.
Página 157 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. 19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
Página 18 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 155 - I saw a mourner standing at eventide over the grave of one dearest to him on earth. The memory of joys that were past came crowding on his soul. " And is this," said he, " all that remains of one so loved and so lovely II call, but no voice answers.
Página 18 - It approaches as nearly to absolute perfection as anything to be found in the legislation of mankind ; for after the experience of fifty years, it would perhaps be impossible to alter without marring it.

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