The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1845 |
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... meet him now , it would kill me . " How well then might one of old say , " Lo ! I have taken upon me to speak unto God , who am but dust ; oh ! let not the Lord be angry and I will speak ! " How justly says the divine Milton , “ May I ...
... meet him now , it would kill me . " How well then might one of old say , " Lo ! I have taken upon me to speak unto God , who am but dust ; oh ! let not the Lord be angry and I will speak ! " How justly says the divine Milton , “ May I ...
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... meet in a visible form ; but to feel the presence of an invisible Being requires that we meditate upon him and strive to draw near to him . Because , also , there is a fitness and beauty in such offer- ings . And because God in his ...
... meet in a visible form ; but to feel the presence of an invisible Being requires that we meditate upon him and strive to draw near to him . Because , also , there is a fitness and beauty in such offer- ings . And because God in his ...
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... created weakness , so to pray ; and it would be strange , since this is the law of created natures , if there were no law nor provision in the Creator's plan to meet it . It would be strange 1845. ] 27 Speculative Difficulties .
... created weakness , so to pray ; and it would be strange , since this is the law of created natures , if there were no law nor provision in the Creator's plan to meet it . It would be strange 1845. ] 27 Speculative Difficulties .
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Creator's plan to meet it . It would be strange if prayer , the breath of all consciously needing souls , could not be answered . It would be strange , if the skepticism that denies the possibility of aid could be vindicated . Yet there ...
Creator's plan to meet it . It would be strange if prayer , the breath of all consciously needing souls , could not be answered . It would be strange , if the skepticism that denies the possibility of aid could be vindicated . Yet there ...
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ciples were from the first , or during the Apostolic times , accustomed to meet for religious worship on the first day of the week . Certainly the oldest records in existence , after those of the New Testament , refer to this as a well ...
ciples were from the first , or during the Apostolic times , accustomed to meet for religious worship on the first day of the week . Certainly the oldest records in existence , after those of the New Testament , refer to this as a well ...
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Page 218 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Page 214 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 219 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 100 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 420 - The Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Arnold, DD Late Head Master of Rugby School and Regius Professor of Modern History in the Univ. of Oxford.
Page 99 - The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
Page 111 - And it is yet far more evident, for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 170 - ... change; it subdues to union under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things. It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes; its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
Page 30 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 219 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...