Incentives for Life, Personal and PublicFleming H. Revell Company, 1902 - 320 pages |
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... evil spirit . Spiritualists use the word for the dominating influence of ghosts ; the " obses- sion " or " breaking into " the house of the soul being so complete that the spirit of the departed comes to occupy the medium's ...
... evil spirit . Spiritualists use the word for the dominating influence of ghosts ; the " obses- sion " or " breaking into " the house of the soul being so complete that the spirit of the departed comes to occupy the medium's ...
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... evil ; but when the natural zest of life begins to flag , the injured Will , no longer sustained by what is outside itself , may suddenly collapse . Schiller notes the malady that developed in Wallenstein and ultimately brought to ...
... evil ; but when the natural zest of life begins to flag , the injured Will , no longer sustained by what is outside itself , may suddenly collapse . Schiller notes the malady that developed in Wallenstein and ultimately brought to ...
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... evil doing and suffering . We may , however , leave the condition of fallen angels an unsolved mystery ; another mystery is more prac- tical - a mere speculation , but it is sometimes worth one's while , having come to the land's end ...
... evil doing and suffering . We may , however , leave the condition of fallen angels an unsolved mystery ; another mystery is more prac- tical - a mere speculation , but it is sometimes worth one's while , having come to the land's end ...
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... evil is evil . ” All ocean creeks to whatever point of the com- pass they move , and however narrow their banks , feel the throb of the great sea tides . They may be deep with the bright waters and float navies on their broad bosoms ...
... evil is evil . ” All ocean creeks to whatever point of the com- pass they move , and however narrow their banks , feel the throb of the great sea tides . They may be deep with the bright waters and float navies on their broad bosoms ...
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... evil on the ground of expediency . He is bound to do all the good possible . Yet he must consider the question of expediency , in order that he may do all the good possible , for otherwise he will do none . " In this sentiment of our ...
... evil on the ground of expediency . He is bound to do all the good possible . Yet he must consider the question of expediency , in order that he may do all the good possible , for otherwise he will do none . " In this sentiment of our ...
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Page 68 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 172 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 268 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Page 60 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 209 - Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you ; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Page 40 - Brow and head were round, and of massive weight, but the face was flabby and irresolute. The deep eyes, of a light hazel, were as full of sorrow as of inspiration ; confused pain looked mildly from them, as in a kind of mild astonishment. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute ; expressive of weakness under possibility of strength.
Page 64 - Vengeance is mine alone !" So saith the Lord, and with all humbleness His servant echoes back the awful word. MAN. Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit, the quick sense...
Page 157 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 62 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 266 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.