 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 346 páginas
...had become very feeble, and was wont to say, when asked how he did, " Alas ! I have lost everything : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." He was forced to give up the duties of his office to a new pastor, and though often entreated to preach... | |
 | John Waddington - 1874 - 756 páginas
...and give me leave 'to be gone." Being asked how he was, he said : " Alas ! I have lost everything : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still : I find that rather grows than fails." " There is a cloud, a dark cloud, upon the work of the gospel among the poor Indians. The Lord revive... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1876 - 1086 páginas
...of others. In his last days, when borne down by years and infirmiCHAP, ties, he said, " My memory, my utterance fails me, but I ' thank God my charity holds out stil^." Even up to the day of his death, which took place when he was eightysix years of age, he continued... | |
 | 1877 - 818 páginas
...for His name's sake." Among his last sayings were the following : " Alas ! I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me ;...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." "There is a cloud, a dark cloud, upon the work of the Gospel among the poor Indians. The Lord revive... | |
 | William Pakenham Walsh - 1879 - 272 páginas
...inquired after his health ; " my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me ; my utterance fails ; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." He was eighty-six when, on the 20th May, 1690, he entered into rest. His last utterances were these :... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1882 - 392 páginas
...asked how he did, he said, '' Alaa ! I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me; my memory fails me; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." So liberal was he in his benefactions, that the parish treasurer one day, when he paid him his salary,... | |
 | John Graham Brooks - 1882 - 72 páginas
...Alas ! " he says, " I have lost everything. My understanding fails me, my utterance fails me ; but, thank God, my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." The translation of the Bible into the Indian tongue is acknowledged by all scholars to have been an... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 páginas
...were put to him respecting his condition, he would humbly reply, " Alas ! I have lost everything : my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than, decreases." Daily approaching nearer to the boundless ocean of God's love, its music and its light... | |
 | 1845 - 752 páginas
...hard toil and old age, a friend asked how he was. He replied, " Alas ! I have lost almost everything ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me; my utterance fails me : but I thank God my charily holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails." •l.iO ANECDOTES AND SAVINGS. As his... | |
 | John Bate - 1885 - 656 páginas
...he said, "I have lost nothing; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me; my utterance fails: but I thank God my charity holds out still. I find that rather grows than fails." He was eighty-six, when .on the aoth of May, 1690, he entered rest. His last utterances were, "Welcome... | |
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Alas, I have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but I thank God my charity holds out still ; I find that rather grows than fails. 
