memory verse
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Commit to memory verse 11: “I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
From Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Dwight Lyman Moody
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
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
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
Now, children, I want to be sure you know your memory verse for Sunday school tomorrow.
From White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor by A. J. Bueltmann
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