Daily Praise and Prayer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LET the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. ... No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LET the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. ... No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. OTHOU who givest life and all that makes life dear and rich and sweet to our souls, we thank thee for this fair world in which we dwell, which thou hast so fitted up and adorned as a home of love and friendship, as a school of divine instruction, and as a temple of worship. While we dwell in it, may we rightly use and enjoy it, grateful for all thy loving-kindness, and here preparing for the higher joy and service of the world to come. May our best affections be set on things unseen and eternal. May we waste no time in vain dalliance and regrets. But, with our faces set heavenward, may we resolutely press on to do thy will; making each new day better than the days that are gone, and ready at any moment to greet thy summons to thy nearer presence and higher service. Amen. I LAID me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord. There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon ...