This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...with his Holy Word." " John Wade, Montgomery County, Vt, who died in 1849, read his Bible through seventy-eight times. J. H.- - WILLIAM F. HANCOCK'S BIBLE. PRESENTED BY HIS GRANDFATHER, APRIL, 1863. God of my fathers, bless the lad, And form his soul divine, May he with grace and love be clad, And be a child of thine." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...with his Holy Word." " John Wade, Montgomery County, Vt, who died in 1849, read his Bible through seventy-eight times. J. H.- - WILLIAM F. HANCOCK'S BIBLE. PRESENTED BY HIS GRANDFATHER, APRIL, 1863. God of my fathers, bless the lad, And form his soul divine, May he with grace and love be clad, And be a child of thine." "JOHN E. HANCOCK'S BIBLE. PRESENTED BY HIS GRANDFATHER, JULY, 1853. Search the Scriptures, read your Bible through, Believe its precepts, love, obey them, too. The Bible, as a book of science, is the most learned book in the world. It has God for its author, truth for its matter, and salvation for its end. Morris Co., N. J. John Hancock." To a little orphan girl, who always called him grandfather, he gave a Bible with this inscription: --"MAETHA COLE'S BIBLE. PRESENTED TO HER BY GRANDFATHER HAKCOCK, 1853. ' Search the Scriptures.' ' When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.'--Psalms 27:10." Thus he passed along, through the ranks of his children's children, giving to each a copy of the book which had been to him, through a long life, above all price. These precious volumes are prized all the more, because they came from grandfather, and contain some of his own poetry addressed directly to themselves. For several years before his death, so anxious was he that his grandchildren should not only possess the Bible, but commit portions of it to memory, it was his custom to assemble as many of them as possible at his own house on New Tear's day, and have them recite, in his hearing, from its sacred pages... On one such occasion, after they had repeated correctly the ten commandments, he pronounced upon them, as they gathered around him, the following benediction: --" God of m...
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Add this copy of A Pilgrim's Foot-Prints, Or, Passages in the Life of to cart. $92.34, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
