...not at all dazzled, not at all inflated, but prayerfully and painfully endeavouring to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. He entered upon his high office in October, 1 793. At the end of the year, he wrote in his private...

...her, and, having thus almost exhausted his honest earnings, went back to his ship, to do his ' duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.' That poor boy spent nothing on the pleasures he had once so dearly loved. He had learned where...

...repining in this natural reflection. Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. And well he might be so, for no man ever passed through the world with less to disquiet or to...

...plans and prospects, and only placed strongly before him the necessity of cheerfully doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Thus the interview, unsatisfactory to both parties, ended, and Martha, as she met the boy coming...

...evening she was tempted so far as to say that she had not forgotten her Church Catechism, but was trying to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her — that state being one of competence and quiet ease ; but Miss Delia shook her head, disapproving...

...such as she had often blamed in characters with which books of fiction at the present day abound ? But the motive would prove this ; the motive in that...imagining, but according to the guidance of His holy word. ings of the righteous," but if He now saw fit to let her feel sorrow, it was in mercy surely, and "...

...was to be prepared. She had done it all; faithfully, cheerfully, lovingly, had this poor girl " done her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her." So testified her good and pious master. She had been almost a mother to his motherless ones. She had...

...bound to continue to follow such a calling, but whilst following it he was bound to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Whilst all these disturbing influences were at work, and on many accounts most actively in the...

...and in the words of the Catechism, to learn and labor truly to get his own living, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; for that was the sum and substance of the hometeaching of our forefathers. For book instruction,...

...and, in the words of the Catechism, to learn and labor truly to get his own living, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; for that was the sum and substance of the which have occurred to me only as I have been writing....