 | Priscilla Maurice - 1856 - 510 էջ
...very hard one, for it is to lie still ; but if we go beyond what He has set us, we are not " doing our duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call us ;" it is only in " quietness and confidence " that we can " possess our strength." For every talent... | |
 | William Martin - 1856 - 352 էջ
...Almighty God — which is ever bestowed upon obedient children, and upon those who strive to " do their duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call them." u Jlitjaiur felt. INDIA abounds in the wonderful. The elephants, the camels, the tigers, the... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 386 էջ
...* at her door-posts to let all the world know the piety that dwells within. In a word, she does her duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased GOD to call her, and is not for ever seeking occasions to trumpet herself out of it." " She has indeed," said Mary... | |
 | Rev. James HICKS - 1856 - 358 էջ
...CHRIST'S army ? If he does his best as a Christian man to maintain himself and his family, doing his duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased GOD to call him, his uprightness will be his best raiment, and it will suffice. Again, as to hard work. — Who... | |
 | Angela Georgina Coutts (baroness Burdett-) - 1857 - 278 էջ
...would have to attend to would be, how to serve her employers well ; how she might fulfil her duties in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call her. She ought to know the best way to manage children, to clean a floor, and to use her needle. There... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1857 - 324 էջ
...and power. 2dly. Who strives to please his neighbour to edification. 3dly. Who endeavours to do his duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him. Whoever would continue in the practice of these things unto his life's end, it is necessary that... | |
 | 1857 - 452 էջ
...not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get your own living, and to do your duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call you." QUESTIONS. Did any earthly governors ever make laws for the hearts of... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1857 - 232 էջ
...greater favours than they now tave. If they thought of their brethren, they would not quarrel with that "state of life unto which it has pleased God to call them;" but discontent would yield to sympathy and praise. Let the one who complains of his portion... | |
 | Unknown - 1858 - 516 էջ
...forcible illustration of the duty which the Catechism enforces, that each should strive to " do his duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him." THE LABOURER-S RECREATION. If Recreation be a rightly chosen word, the subject to which it refers... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1858 - 1052 էջ
...the desert where I was ALONE, and in the Paradise which I have peopled, I have endeavoured to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it has pleased God to call me. And believe me, my dear boy, this is the only talisman that can carry us unscathed through the... | |
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God in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him. 
