Seed Corn for the Sower: Or, Thoughts, Themes and Illustrations for the Pulpit and Platform and for Home ReadingsFleming H. Revell Company, 1889 - 422 pages |
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... reach ; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there , yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more . Let every book - worm , when in any fragrant ...
... reach ; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there , yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more . Let every book - worm , when in any fragrant ...
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... reach the peaceful shore Where all the ransomed dwell . " And when we gain the land , How happy shall we be ! How shall we bless the mighty hand That led us through the sea ! " 18. Ancient Art and Scholarship Why Destroyed . Scholars ...
... reach the peaceful shore Where all the ransomed dwell . " And when we gain the land , How happy shall we be ! How shall we bless the mighty hand That led us through the sea ! " 18. Ancient Art and Scholarship Why Destroyed . Scholars ...
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... ( reach ) me the book . " " What book ? " said his friend . " Ah ! " said the dying genius that flung out his wonder- working wand , the spell of whose sorcery had made millions weep over his Heart of Midlothian , and millions shudder at ...
... ( reach ) me the book . " " What book ? " said his friend . " Ah ! " said the dying genius that flung out his wonder- working wand , the spell of whose sorcery had made millions weep over his Heart of Midlothian , and millions shudder at ...
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... reach , but far enough to inspire and elevate us . Why should we read the poetasters and neglect the poets ? Why fill our time with the shallow com- pilers , and let go the great chroniclers of great events ? Why be compelled to remain ...
... reach , but far enough to inspire and elevate us . Why should we read the poetasters and neglect the poets ? Why fill our time with the shallow com- pilers , and let go the great chroniclers of great events ? Why be compelled to remain ...
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... reach the enemy's camp . So it is with words . They may be appropriate and eloquent , yet if there be no force of character behind them they will do no execution . The Christian teacher should be a truth- loving and truth - living man ...
... reach the enemy's camp . So it is with words . They may be appropriate and eloquent , yet if there be no force of character behind them they will do no execution . The Christian teacher should be a truth- loving and truth - living man ...
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Page 279 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it...
Page 337 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 337 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. We know what master laid thy keel; What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel; Who made each mast and sail and rope ; What anvils rang, what hammers beat; In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
Page 279 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests ; our projects will be confounded ; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Page 413 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 413 - As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence...
Page 328 - YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — Oh!
Page 124 - Buxton says, the longer I live the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature, a man without it.
Page 45 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Page 278 - In the Beginning of the Contest with Britain, when we were sensible of Danger, we had daily Prayers in this Room for the Divine Protection. Our Prayers, Sir, were heard ; — and they were graciously answered.