The Westminster Monthly, Volume 42

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Westminster College, 1912

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Page 9 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 3 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant...
Page 8 - It keeps the fisherman and the deckhand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin...
Page 5 - An acquired habit, from the physiological point of view, is nothing but a new pathway of discharge formed in the brain, by which certain incoming currents ever after tend to escape.
Page 8 - And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Page 13 - February 1, 1935), and may be amended at the annual or any stated meeting of the Association, by a two-thirds vote of the members present, provided that notice of the proposed amendment...
Page 18 - ... against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness ; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Page 17 - And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host": and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Page 6 - I'll aid thy foeman, or sustain thy soul. Lo, at thy marriage-feast, upon one hand, Pace of thy bride, and on the other, mine ! Lo, at thy couch of sickness close I stand, And taint the cup, or make it more benign. Yea, hark ! the very son thou hast begot One day doth give thee certain sign and cry; Hold thou thy peace — frighted or frighted not; That look — that sign — that presence — it is I!
Page 4 - From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. "Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!

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