The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, Volume 14Society of the Philistines, 1901 |
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Page 32 - Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
Page 128 - Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Page 84 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 64 - They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, arid whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Page 62 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Page 159 - Straightaway through his thirty-five pounds of skin and bones there ran a tremor of fear, and he struggled forward to tie a broken thread. I attracted his attention by a touch, and offered him a silver dime. He looked at me dumbly from a face that might have belonged to a man of sixty, so furrowed, tightly drawn, and full of pain it was. He did not reach for the money — he did not know what it was.
Page 84 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 100 - There are people who are always talking about preparing for life, and preparing for eternity and preparing to meet God. We are living in eternity now as much as ever we shall, and the only way to meet God is to have His spirit in our hearts. God is not away off there: He is here, and every day is Judgment Day, A school should not be a preparation for life — a school should be life. There will never be a science of pedagogy so long as you take the pupil from his work in order to educate him. Isolation...
Page 160 - ... so furrowed, tightly drawn, and full of pain it was. He did not reach for the money — he did not know what it was. There were dozens of such children in this particular mill. A physician who was with me said that they would all be dead probably in two years, and their places filled by others — there were plenty more. Pneumonia carries off most of them. Their systems are ripe for disease, and when it comes there is no rebound — no response. Medicine simply does not act — nature is whipped,...
Page 64 - Applaud us when we run; console us when we fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on — for God's sake let us pass on.