memory verse
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Kavanagh went home, invented a ballad about his fever in Port-o'-Spain, and wrote it upon his memory, verse by verse—for he did not possess the art of writing upon paper.
From The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
Let the lower line contain a few initial letters hinting at the memory verse concealed just above it.
From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells
And as he came awake, he found that, for all the goodness of his memory, verse after verse of the angels' nonsense vanished from it.
From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
No memory verse or golden text, once learned, should be allowed to lapse into that easy pit, a child's quick forgetfulness.
From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells
Commit to memory verse 6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.”
From Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Dwight Lyman Moody
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