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... gaze . Again the supremacy of mind is restored ; the saying is verified that " there is nothing on earth great but man , and in man there is nothing great but mind . " Geology and astronomy have long ago crossed the line ,
... gaze . Again the supremacy of mind is restored ; the saying is verified that " there is nothing on earth great but man , and in man there is nothing great but mind . " Geology and astronomy have long ago crossed the line ,
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... earth and the solar system , with the immense , inconceivable periods of geologic time , man , with his short span of ephemeral ex- istence , dwindled into insignificance . For once , science agreed with Scripture in the exclamation ...
... earth and the solar system , with the immense , inconceivable periods of geologic time , man , with his short span of ephemeral ex- istence , dwindled into insignificance . For once , science agreed with Scripture in the exclamation ...
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... earth . For human nature will be transformed , even as external nature has been transformed . The howling wilderness of human strife , selfishness and crime will be changed into a smil- ing landscape of human concord and fraternity ; so ...
... earth . For human nature will be transformed , even as external nature has been transformed . The howling wilderness of human strife , selfishness and crime will be changed into a smil- ing landscape of human concord and fraternity ; so ...
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... earth , the other in the spiritual world . " As the seed planted in the soil has a certain growth beneath the surface of the ground , a fuller growth above the surface and fruition there , so the spirit has the fruition of its ( earthly ) ...
... earth , the other in the spiritual world . " As the seed planted in the soil has a certain growth beneath the surface of the ground , a fuller growth above the surface and fruition there , so the spirit has the fruition of its ( earthly ) ...
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... earth , but we cannot obtain what we have not acquired by our own efforts in the earth - life . If we have failed to gain a victory over temptation , failed , that is , if we have not attempted at all to overcome a besetting sin , we ...
... earth , but we cannot obtain what we have not acquired by our own efforts in the earth - life . If we have failed to gain a victory over temptation , failed , that is , if we have not attempted at all to overcome a besetting sin , we ...
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Page 94 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said ; Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 43 - And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark ; where many were gathered together praying.
Page 137 - Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 250 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 8 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 225 - For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Page 82 - One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea : it is, as common people say, so "upsetting...
Page 247 - The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors. These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair was tangled, their mouths frothed with excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful.
Page 212 - Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Page 135 - Let me not burst in ignorance ! but tell, Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements ! why the sepulchre. Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd. Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again...