A Memorial of the Semi-centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Theological Seminary at Andover

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W. F. Draper, 1859 - 242 pages

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Page 157 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 113 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 187 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay ; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 25 - And Paradise was open'd in the Wild. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors; No silver saints, by dying misers given, Here bribed the rage of ill-requited Heaven : But such plain roofs as piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. In these lone walls (their days...
Page 5 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 30 - And thou wert aye a masker bold! What strange disguise hast now put on To make believe that thou art gone?
Page 182 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Page 226 - those holy fields over whose acres walked those blessed feet which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed, for our advantage, on the bitter cross ; ' in the midst of those immemorial customs which recalled at every turn the manner of life He lived.
Page 182 - THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Page 30 - Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee — Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young ! When I was young ? — Ah, woful When ! Ah ! for the change 'twixt Now and Then...

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