Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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... earth more than three hundred millions of years , while Tait , Young , and Thompson pronounce it quite impracticable to grant more than ten , or , at most , fifteen millions , this poor benighted clerk is bound to sit and hearken to his ...
... earth more than three hundred millions of years , while Tait , Young , and Thompson pronounce it quite impracticable to grant more than ten , or , at most , fifteen millions , this poor benighted clerk is bound to sit and hearken to his ...
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... earth is paradise , " and all beyond is blank . But it was Mephistopheles who said : " The little god of this world sticks to the same old way , And is as whimsical as on creation's day ; Life somewhat better might content him , - But ...
... earth is paradise , " and all beyond is blank . But it was Mephistopheles who said : " The little god of this world sticks to the same old way , And is as whimsical as on creation's day ; Life somewhat better might content him , - But ...
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... earth to do valiantly in the battle of life . Across this quiet green there comes moving again invisibly a majestic procession of the faithful and the strong , laden with labors and with honors . In these seats there can almost be seen ...
... earth to do valiantly in the battle of life . Across this quiet green there comes moving again invisibly a majestic procession of the faithful and the strong , laden with labors and with honors . In these seats there can almost be seen ...
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... earth and whose home is in heaven . And over us there seems to hover to - day a great cloud of witnessess spirits of the just made perfect . It is good to be here . I only pray that the new arm may not prove too weak to bear the banner ...
... earth and whose home is in heaven . And over us there seems to hover to - day a great cloud of witnessess spirits of the just made perfect . It is good to be here . I only pray that the new arm may not prove too weak to bear the banner ...
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... earth in the chase of a fortune plead the exceeding difficulty of finding the way to heaven , should God accept this sudden imbecility ? When the actors of the first French Revolution , " with their hands all smeared with human ...
... earth in the chase of a fortune plead the exceeding difficulty of finding the way to heaven , should God accept this sudden imbecility ? When the actors of the first French Revolution , " with their hands all smeared with human ...
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Page 495 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be.
Page 404 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 461 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 136 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 185 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal, that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious...
Page 480 - And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 308 - 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 157 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 55 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Page 117 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do ; the heads of them were two hundred ; and all their brethren were at their commandment.