Life and Light for Woman, Volumen41

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Woman's Board of Missions, 1911

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Página 342 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Página 324 - People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay ? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter ] Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought ! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it...
Página 45 - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
Página 27 - Born within a lowly stable, where the cattle round me stood, Trained a carpenter in Nazareth, I have toiled, and found it good. "They who tread the path of labour follow where my feet have trod; They who work without complaining do the holy will of God. "Where the many toil together, there am I among my own; Where the tired workman sleepeth, there am I with him alone.
Página 27 - Where the many toil together, there am I among My own ; Where the tired workman sleepeth, there am I with him alone. " I, the peace that passeth knowledge, dwell amid the daily strife ; I, the bread of heaven, am broken in the sacrament of life. "Every task, however simple, sets the soul that does it free ; Every deed of love and mercy, done to man, is done to Me.
Página 64 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Página 324 - It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink ; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in, and for, us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk, when we remember the great sacrifice which HE...
Página 324 - ... reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought ! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say, rather, it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink, but let this only be for a moment. All these...
Página 563 - They go, unheeding. But these sick and sad These blind and orphan, yea, and those that sin Drag at my heart. For them I serve and groan. Why is it? Let me rest, Lord. I have tried" — He turned and looked at me: "But I have died.
Página 30 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be.

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