| Joseph Frederick Flint, Clement E. Babb, Mrs E. M. Adams, James R. Kaye - 1901 - 228 стор.
...energy to build it up financially and socially." What we have in mind is expressed in the lines, — "God, bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, Us four, and no more." And in what Jesus said of an invited guest, "I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come."... | |
| Joseph Davis Hall - 1902 - 392 стор.
...public parlors, inviting only my favorites to join in the sport, I am like the man that prayed for "me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more. Amen." Riches and poverty are both so passing that it ain't wuth while to let either of them stand... | |
| 1903 - 584 стор.
...over. 4. Our missions giv? a broader view of flint's Church. The old idea that the Church is for " me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more," dies out when the missionary fire is kindled. When our hearts take in God's world of lost sheep, then... | |
| Isaac Phillips Roberts - 1903 - 328 стор.
...of others. Our world is just as large as we make it. Interest may be centered largely in self or in "Me and my wife, my son John, and his wife, us four and no more," or it may be as extended as our knowledge and as genuine as the interest taken in one's family. As... | |
| Isaac Phillips Roberts - 1903 - 328 стор.
...of others. Our world is just as large as we make it. Interest may be centered largely in self or in "Me and my wife, my son John, and his wife, us four and no more," or it may be as extended as our knowledge and as genuine as the interest taken in one's family. As... | |
| 1904 - 758 стор.
...that they opened their meetings with a prayer, with a thought similar to the following: "Oh, Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife; us four, and no more. — Amen." It therefore becomes the duty of each and every physician to assume an active part in this... | |
| 1904 - 402 стор.
...is received. Many people are religiously selfish and do not know it. Heaven to them is for "Myself and my wife, my son John and his wife — us four and no more." When this religious selfishness pervades the mind it draws as a magnet the thoughts of abundant life... | |
| Southern Educational Association - 1905 - 358 стор.
...narrow-minded deacon who, according to the venerable story so often repeated, prayed thus, "O, Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four, no more," was doubtless altruistic enough, but not at all democratic. Now some such spirit has sometimes... | |
| 1906 - 274 стор.
..."vague unrest and a nameless longing in the breast." It reminded me of the old man who prayed, — " God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more." But the text of the day was furnished by a certain hoboish-looking individual who sat at the further... | |
| Massachusetts - 1906 - 1366 стор.
...should be of a similar comprehensive nature. We should not inquire as the man prayed for blessings, upon "me and my wife, my son .John and his wife, us four and no more," but as to how we can better the conditions of agriculture in the nation, trusting to our own efforts... | |
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