"Last words: "I bless the Lord that he gave me counsel."

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“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”

“How soon would faith freeze without a cross!”

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

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“When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory.”

“In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.”

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