Life Struggles: an Autobiographic Record of the Earlier Trials and Later Triumphs of the Rev. James Inches HillocksJ.S. Marr, 1876 - 184 strani |
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... returning home , betook himself to the loom as a means of living . Even yet , I think I see him at that weary loom , brave as ever , the peculiar clink of the rapid shuttle keeping time to the simple notes of a sea - ditty . When he was ...
... returning home , betook himself to the loom as a means of living . Even yet , I think I see him at that weary loom , brave as ever , the peculiar clink of the rapid shuttle keeping time to the simple notes of a sea - ditty . When he was ...
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... this laudable object , and returned to the night - school as before , when labour generally , and weaving particularly , came to " a fearful stand . " HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO SOCIETY . " 29 He adds 28 LIFE STRUGGLES .
... this laudable object , and returned to the night - school as before , when labour generally , and weaving particularly , came to " a fearful stand . " HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO SOCIETY . " 29 He adds 28 LIFE STRUGGLES .
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... returned home , healthy , happy , and thankful . ” A POINT GAINED . Well may he ask , " What would the poor do were it not for the poor ? " This is a very suggestive question , and the simple narration of this touching episode shows ...
... returned home , healthy , happy , and thankful . ” A POINT GAINED . Well may he ask , " What would the poor do were it not for the poor ? " This is a very suggestive question , and the simple narration of this touching episode shows ...
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... returned to his former " study " under the thatched roof of this poor abode . He says he did not regret the journey in search of work , after that journey was finished and blessed . " The beginning was bitter , but the end was sweet ...
... returned to his former " study " under the thatched roof of this poor abode . He says he did not regret the journey in search of work , after that journey was finished and blessed . " The beginning was bitter , but the end was sweet ...
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... returning from public worship , and , in order that my father might not see me , I went beyond the lane . This afforded a favourable oppor- tunity for the boys with whom I had left home . They followed me , and strange to say , I kept ...
... returning from public worship , and , in order that my father might not see me , I went beyond the lane . This afforded a favourable oppor- tunity for the boys with whom I had left home . They followed me , and strange to say , I kept ...
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able Alyth anxious assistance beautiful became become blessed Brechin Broughty Ferry called cause CHAPTER cheering CHRISTIAN UNION Church Congregational Church connection Darlington dear desire Dundee duties earnest Edinburgh efforts entered especially Evangelistic evident faith father favoured fear feeling felt gave GEORGE GILFILLAN give glad greatly happy heart heartily hence Hillocks hope incidents interest J. H. Wilson Jesus kind kindly knew labour lectures letter literary societies live Lochee London Lord Kinnaird Luthermuir Macrae Maggie manifested matter maun meet mental culture mind minister moral morning nature newspaper noble parents pastor poet poor Poor Law Board poverty pupils rejoice says Scotland seen soon soul speak spirit St Pancras struggling suffering Sunday teacher teaching tell things thought told truth valuable Waverley Station wayside flower words workhouse
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Stran 63 - No man practises so well as he writes. I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Stran 39 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Stran 73 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Stran 133 - ... hour ; It smiles in the sunshine, and weeps in the shower ; And the footstep falls on the wayside flower ! Now see, my dear child, in the wayside flower, The joys and the sorrows of life's passing hour ; The footstep of time hastens on in its power ; And soon we must fall like the wayside flower Yet know, my dear child, that the wayside flower Shall revive in its season, and bloom its brief hour ; That again we shall blossom in beauty and power, Where the foot never falls on the wayside flower...
Stran ii - expressing in one terse phrase, his energy as a man, and his hope as a Christian." Christian Word — " It is a story that ought to inspire young men in their wrestle with fortune in her sternest moods. " Arbroath Guide — " The account of Mr. Hillocks' life is interesting, and we recommend the book to the notice of young men especially.
Stran 133 - There's a moral, my child, in the wayside flower : There's an emblem of life in its short-Iiv'd hour ; It smiles in the sunshine, and weeps in the shower ; And the footstep falls on the wayside flower ! Now see, my dear child, in the wayside flower...