...Christian faith and knowledge, with the Bible placed in her hands, and all the appointed means of grace within her reach. She would be kept cleanly in person...Christianity and justice, would be the difference of her situation from that in which we behold her ? She would be the more amply provided with all needful...

...excitement — dreams, philosophy, nerves, feelings — in one page the most morbid repinings at the state of life into which it had pleased God to call her — in the next, the most high-stalking protestations of an equanimity which it was impossible for...

...hand, and in consequence a full third of the congregation quietly withdrew, in order to "do their duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them." But in spite of this unavoidable diminution of the numbers, the rev. chaplain had the gratification...

...wife. It would have been hard indeed upon her had he not been contented ! Faithfully she did her duty " in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her ;" and it may be, that her soul walked the path to heaven with more certainty than many a brighter...

...wife. It would have been hard, indeed, upon her had he not been contented ! Faithfully she did her duty "in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her;" and it may be, that her soul walked the path to heaven with more certainty than many a brighter intelligence....

...helpless miseries to themselves. And as the broad foundation of their training nad been tO " Do THEIR DUTY IN THAT STATE OF LIFE INTO WHICH IT HAD PLEASED GOD TO CALL THEM ; " their chief knowledge consisted in never attempting to go beyond this state, but scrupulously...

...they were baptised, would want to go out into the world, and to perform that duty, whatever it was, in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them ; they would waut, therefore, at once that double portion of spirit which Elisha prayed for, that...

...active, self-denying, lowly, and single-minded, spent in the zealous and faithful discharge of her duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her, so that not only her family, but all who knew her, testified that she was an affectionate, kind, and...

...others. She was a bright example of Christian virtue; and, through the grace of God, SHE DID HER DUTY IN THAT STATE OF LIFE, INTO WHICH IT HAD PLEASED GOD TO CALL HEE. WM WATTS, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR. J b n vn •'• ''-^SHUJ '•-'•^-••- •'>•••...

...way also ; he never even dreamed that she was unhappy at all, or had any reason to be discontented in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. On the contrary, he sometimes, in his sad way, looked out on her existence as on a pleasant prospect....