Barnabas (English, Italian, Paperback)

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1842 edition. Estratto: ...God hoi bestowed "an-hundred-fold in this time." He vrill give "eternal life." None have lost more than the widow and the fatherless.--There are few promises of scripture more obviously fulfilled than such as relate to them. Elihu enquired, "When HE giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?" John Newton, in his seventy-fourth year when flesh and blood were failing, said, "If He will deign to smile upon me, I shall smile upon death." He nobler friends than here I leave, In brighter fairer worlds can give; Or, by the beamings of his eye, A lost creation well supply. Doddridge. XIX.--SMOOTH PATHS. Afflicted holiness is infinitely to be preferred before prosperous wickedness.--Shaw. "ming Tsong, an emperor of China, said, ' I have often travelled on horseback, over very rough and mountainous countries, and never got any hurt, taking care to keep a steady rein; but, in the smoothest plains, thinking the same precautions useless, and letting loose H the reiiis, my horse has stumbled, and put me in danger.'" "It is not while the storm is raging, tremendous though that storm may be--it is not while sailing along the perilous shore, or tracking her way through labyrinths of unknown islands, or the ice-mazes of the Polar regions, that the ship is most liable to wreck or founder. No the catalogue of shipwrecks, and maritime calamities, is swelled, for the most part, by such as were carelessly scudding over summer seas, with all sails set and all hands on board, joyful and confident; by such as were sailing through channels and straights so familiar to them that the lead was left idle at the main chains, and no precautions deemed necessary: by such as from the furthermost...