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Go to the Ant from The Authorized Version

Solomon recommends taking lessons from one of God’s smallest but most hard-working creatures.

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God Moves in a Mysterious Way by William Cowper

However dark the night of doubt, day is sure to come.

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‘God Never Sends Mouths Without Sending Meat’ by William Cobbett

Riding through Sussex, William Cobbett comes across a large family relaxing together in front of their charming cottage.

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‘God Save the King!’ by Clay Lane

The simple melody of the United Kingdom’s national anthem has stirred the souls of some great composers.

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‘God Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb’ by Anthony Trollope

Mary Mason could not forgive herself for a past misdeed.

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Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh by Elfric of Eynsham

Abbot Elfric unpacks the meaning of the gifts of the Three Wise Men.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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