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... sermon upon Hell . Compare that sermon with Jonathan Edwards's " Sinners in the hands of an angry God . " It is as a foot - stove to Vesuvius on the day it buried Herculaneum . But here in Boston is the Rev. Flavius Josephus Cook 30 THE ...
... sermon upon Hell . Compare that sermon with Jonathan Edwards's " Sinners in the hands of an angry God . " It is as a foot - stove to Vesuvius on the day it buried Herculaneum . But here in Boston is the Rev. Flavius Josephus Cook 30 THE ...
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... sermons like to this , but brief and pointed ones , now of unspoken behavior and anon of seasonable speech . Preach ... sermon was the last before the summer vacation . FATE AND FREEDOM . WE do well to celebrate the THE RISING FAITH . 47.
... sermons like to this , but brief and pointed ones , now of unspoken behavior and anon of seasonable speech . Preach ... sermon was the last before the summer vacation . FATE AND FREEDOM . WE do well to celebrate the THE RISING FAITH . 47.
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... Sermon on the Mount , the founder of a new religion , the unifying force of eighteen Christian centuries ; no such Jesus as this without Galilee or without Judea . Especially without Galilee . " The child is father of the man ; " and it ...
... Sermon on the Mount , the founder of a new religion , the unifying force of eighteen Christian centuries ; no such Jesus as this without Galilee or without Judea . Especially without Galilee . " The child is father of the man ; " and it ...
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... Sermon on the Mount and all the highest teaching of Jesus . Jesus will learn next to nothing of the general condition of the world , will have no idea of the power of Rome and the peace it has established everywhere throughout the ...
... Sermon on the Mount and all the highest teaching of Jesus . Jesus will learn next to nothing of the general condition of the world , will have no idea of the power of Rome and the peace it has established everywhere throughout the ...
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... Sermon on the Mount . But do they take no thought for the morrow ? Smitten upon one cheek , do they turn the other to the smiter ? Do they give to all who ask of them ? And when their coats are stolen , do they run after the stealer ...
... Sermon on the Mount . But do they take no thought for the morrow ? Smitten upon one cheek , do they turn the other to the smiter ? Do they give to all who ask of them ? And when their coats are stolen , do they run after the stealer ...
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Page 232 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Page 85 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 350 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 184 - VENTUS As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas By each was cleaving, side by side...
Page 350 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 327 - Forward I reach and share All that they sing and dare. The airs of heaven blow o'er me ; A glory shines before me Of what mankind shall be, — Pure, generous, brave, and free. A dream of man and woman Diviner but still human, Solving the riddle old, Shaping the Age of Gold ! The love of God and neighbor ; An eq^ual-handed labor ; The richer life, where beauty Walks hand in hand with duty.
Page 65 - A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
Page 184 - O great seas, Though ne'er, that earliest parting past, On your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought, alike they sought, One purpose hold where'er they fare, — O bounding breeze, O rushing seas! At last, at last, unite them there!
Page 260 - He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat. He will abstain from dogmatism, and recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung. He submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion, but he is a candidate for truth, as the other is not, and respects the highest law of his being.
Page 321 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!