The Judson Offering; Intended as a Token of Christian Sympathy with the Living and a Memento of Christian Affection for the Dead - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1848. Excerpt: ... Than mortal man can know; who when on earth Received the little children to his arms, Graciously blessing them, shall come again : Shall come -- not in the garb of sinful man --. But clothed in majesty, arrayed in power. Then shall thy dust arise -- nor thine alone ; But all who sleep shall wake and rise with thee. Then, like the glorious body of thy Lord, Who wakes thy dust, this fragile frame shall be. Then shalt thou mount with him on angel's wings; Be freed from sorrow, sickness, sin, and death, And in his presence fiud eternal bliss. GOD A REFUGE IN TRIALS. BEDDOME. My times of sorrow and of joy, Great God, are in thy hand ; My choicest comforts come from Thee, And go at Thy command. If Thou should'st take them all away, Yet would I not repine Before they were possessed by me, « They were entirely Thine. Nor would I drop a murmuring word, Though all the world were gone, But seek enduring happiness In Thee, and Theemlone. SKETCHES OF MISSIONARY LIFE. No. XIV.--DEATH IN THE JUNGLE. EDITOR. " Let me but know There is an arm unseen that holds me up. An eye that kindly "watches all my path, Till I my weary pilgrimage have done -- Let me but know I have a friend that waits To welcome me to glory, -- and I joy To tread the dark and death-fraught wilderness. And when I come to stretch me for the last, In unattended agony it will be sweet That I have toiled for other worlds than this : I know I shall feel happier than to die On softer bed." Brown. Just one week previous to the death of " little Maria," the Rev. George D. Eoardman and his wife, Sarah B., arrived at Amherst. Mr. Boardman paid a visit to Maulmain a few days after his arrival, and returned an hour or two after the little sufferer had breathed her last, "just in season to construct the coffin, and make other preparation...

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