The Christian GentlemanFunk & Wagnalls, 1898 - 123 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abound Abraham Lincoln adversity arouse baby Black Hills blessed body Boston brakeman Bret Harte bundle character chivalry Christian gentleman climbing Cloth coals of fire coats counterfeit courage cruel deeds diamond willow door dreams dwarfed earnest enemies enmity evil eyes face fellow-men fellowship friendship Gilt Top give grow Hamlin Garland Hampshire hand hate heart Henry Ward Beecher Holy honorable hope human ideal illustration imagination inspiration Jesus Christ knight Let me live life's look LOUIS ALBERT BANKS man's manhood mean misfit nature ness never noble perity Phillips Brooks physical poor prosperous revenge Revival says seat seemed selfish side smile sorrow soul spirit splendid story stranger strike strong struggle sure tailor temple things thought tion to-day toil train true turn Volume of Sermons weak wealth woman women words worthy York Observer young
Popular passages
Page 50 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 65 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 100 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 46 - tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Page 82 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 39 - I would not sit in the scorner's seat. Or hurl the cynic's ban — Let me live in a house by the side of the road...
Page 39 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I.
Page 96 - And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord.
Page 51 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 38 - Where the highways never ran — But let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man. Let me live in a house by the side of the road...