The Labour Annual: The Reformers' Yearbook"Clarion" Company, Limited, 1899 |
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Page 153 - God, having out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.
Page 166 - I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.
Page 161 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 1 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 37 - So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, "Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest," represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available principle of national economy.
Page 55 - WE WILL SPEAK OUT We will speak out, we will be heard, Though all earth's systems crack; We will not bate a single word, Nor take a letter back.
Page 123 - Meat ! perhaps your right to that may be pleadable ; but other rights have to be pleaded first. Claim your crumbs from the table, if you will ; but claim them as children, not as dogs ; claim your right to be fed, but claim more loudly your right to be holy, perfect, and pure.
Page 63 - Kelp is a species of sea-weed, which, when burnt, yields an alkaline salt, useful for making glass, soap, and for several other purposes. It grows in several parts of Great Britain, particularly in Scotland, upon such rocks only as lie within the high water...
Page 67 - I looked again and saw that flowery space Stirring, as if alive, beneath the tread That rested now upon an old man's head, And now upon a baby's gasping face, Or mother's bosom, or the rounded grace Of a girl's throat ; and what had seemed the red Of flowers was blood, in gouts and gushes shed From hearts that broke under that frolic pace.