Book/Printed Material The tongue of time;
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Image 2 of The tongue of time; Class_ Book l i j ui-:si-:S TKi) by
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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- Date: 1844
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- Date: 1844
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- Date: 1844
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Image 7 of The tongue of time; OR THE LANGUAGE OF A CHURCH CLOCK X o clock. The Universal Command, JL\ j jr\ General Duties jy The Christian Temper I in. regard, to iitis life ~V.... Corn/ort and. Warn.in.cf...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 9 of The tongue of time; TONGUE OF TIME THE LANGUAGE OE A CHURCH CLOCK. WILLIAM HARRISON, A. M. OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFOBD MOBNING PREACHES AT THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL; DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO H. E. H. THE DUKE OF...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 11 of The tongue of time; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The design of this little work was suggested to me, a short time ago, by hearing the clock strike at midnight. A thought arose in my mind,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 12 of The tongue of time; IV PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. realize, in every division of time, a part of that cross which was borne for us and this is in fact, the chief recommendation of the...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 13 of The tongue of time; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. It is with much thankfulness that I send forth the second edition of this little work. From the very rapid sale of the first thousand, and the...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 14 of The tongue of time; INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. Reader you have often heard the clock strike. Have you ever thought upon its meaning? Monotonous as its sounds may be to a careless ear, they have language. Not an...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 15 of The tongue of time; INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. VU hereafter, blush at my report for c I shall be. Brief is the appointed term, but yet a little while I am with you. While, then, you look back...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 16 of The tongue of time; VU1 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. of primogeniture, unencumbered with our father s debts. God grant reader, that you and I may prove such wise occupants and inheritors of this invaluable property, that, whatever may...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 17 of The tongue of time; TONGUE OF TIME. THE UNIVERSAL COMMAND. This is a needful warning It is but once in the day that it greets our ears. Its next sound comes in the dead of night....
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 18 of The tongue of time; 10 ONE O CLOCK. some children of pleasure at the fag-end of their toil; some solitary bending over the lettered page, or taxing his o erwronght brain; some anxious spirit watching by...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 19 of The tongue of time; THE UNIVERSAL COMMAND. 11 guard in the enemy s country. Every device that can be employed to distract thy attention will be used against thee. Covetousness opens before thee as a pitfall,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 20 of The tongue of time; 12 ONE O CLOCK. and, even while reading this, the moments of the hour are vanishing with noiseless steps. No time have we then for security. Security is the olive leaf upon...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 21 of The tongue of time; THE UNIVERSAL COMMAND. 13 hour of his passion. Then was it that the nearness of his approaching trial began to pierce his soul. Often had his spirit shrunk from contact with the...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 22 of The tongue of time; 14 ONE O CLOCK. that this in itself is hell. Then was it that he bade his friends watch. O if vain thoughts or thoughts of sin molest thee, think upon Gethsemane....
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 23 of The tongue of time; TWO O CLOCK. 1 FEAR GOD. GENERAL DUTIES. Short is the lesson to which the hour of two calls our attention, and jet the Bible declares it to be the whole duty...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 24 of The tongue of time; 16 two o clock. nature, feelings, habits, occupations, interests, we all stand alone and unattached in regard to God. Between us and him there is no intervening power, nor second principle. As...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 25 of The tongue of time; GENERAL DUTIES. 17 though that sentiment may well be felt toward one who can destroy both body and soul in hell. And, indeed, christian, if thy heart be not cleansed from sin,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 26 of The tongue of time; 18 two o clock. perfection of an archangel s purity, we can learn no more. And now, reader, noon is past already; but a few hours, and darkness shall close in the...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 27 of The tongue of time; GENERAL DUTIES. 19 of the Lord is with them that fear him. It purges the heart, for the fear of the Lord is clean. Who knows how opportunely the hour of two...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 28 of The tongue of time; 20 two o clock. God of love, who, when he looked upon his only and well-beloved son as the representative of rebels, turned from him. for awhile, and hid his face in...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 29 of The tongue of time; THREE O CLOCK. honor all men. GENERAL DUTIES. The epistles of St. Peter are not merely remarkable for the truths that they contain, but also for many touches of practical wisdom, which,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 30 of The tongue of time; 22 THREE O CLOCK. precepts, which qualifies them no less to form the manners and tastes of the gentleman, than to enlighten the conscience of the christian. In short, they might, without...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 31 of The tongue of time; GENERAL DUTIES. 23 which no christian would take a vindictive advantage. Personal feelings, in short, are sacred, and the peasant may have to complain of undue liberties, as well as the peer;...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 32 of The tongue of time; 24 THREE O CLOCK. often mistake bluntness for candor, that this rule can never be too strongly impressed upon us. Thus, persons in authority, for example, or such as hold official or...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 33 of The tongue of time; GENERAL DUTIES. 25 This last sentiment, indeed, is equivalent to the sum of the second table, and is a fit successor to the admonition of the foregoing hour. The two together include...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 34 of The tongue of time; 26 THREE O CLOCK. is a point of time consecrated by the burst of a dying Savior s anguish. It was at this season that, in the yet lingering darkness, after he...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 35 of The tongue of time; GENERAL DUTIES. 27 only a part of the charge, though a very important one but we who are called upon, as it were, to wash the feet of our brethren, are reminded,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 36 of The tongue of time; FOUR O CLOCK. BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING. THE CHRISTIAN S TEMPER IN REGARD TO THIS LIFE. To be diligent in our business, without being devoted to it; to have an enterprising spirit,...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 37 of The tongue of time; THE CHRISTIAN S TEMPER. 29 to which is to be found in the foregoing precept. The natural man has ever been at a loss to understand this, and it is, perhaps, one...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 38 of The tongue of time; 30 four o clock. upon a supreme and loving Father, that it is only when we are required to put it into operation that we detect the utter fallacy of imagination, and...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 39 of The tongue of time; THE CHRISTIAN S TEMPER. 31 change. He is one of that bustling throng whom the business of this world brings together, for the space of a few minutes, from every country on...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844
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Image 40 of The tongue of time; 32 four o clock. to be careful for nothing, but let it make that place thy Jehovah-jireh. While the hum of voices tills thine ears, and money is changing hands, and the...
- Contributor: Harrison, William
- Date: 1844