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... Father and child . We all are children in a Father's house , - a house of many mansions . This glorious world we live in , is to us as a palace of gifts and treasures to the princely heir who is yet a child . The palace is all his . Its ...
... Father and child . We all are children in a Father's house , - a house of many mansions . This glorious world we live in , is to us as a palace of gifts and treasures to the princely heir who is yet a child . The palace is all his . Its ...
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... Father . " Never at any time has Christian enthusiasm , though uplifted to transfiguring visions of the love of God , and of the preciousness of each human soul , been indifferent to the outward and material conditions of men . Not only ...
... Father . " Never at any time has Christian enthusiasm , though uplifted to transfiguring visions of the love of God , and of the preciousness of each human soul , been indifferent to the outward and material conditions of men . Not only ...
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... Father knoweth that ye have need of these things . " Out of the large , indefinite commandment , " Love thy neighbor , " so spiritual , so simple , come the highly specialized activities of Christian philan- thropy , Christian education ...
... Father knoweth that ye have need of these things . " Out of the large , indefinite commandment , " Love thy neighbor , " so spiritual , so simple , come the highly specialized activities of Christian philan- thropy , Christian education ...
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... Father's purpose for his children . Shall we not look upon this age of victory and peace in which we live , and ask everywhere whether these gifts which God has given to men , are bringing us nearer to our divine birthright of life ...
... Father's purpose for his children . Shall we not look upon this age of victory and peace in which we live , and ask everywhere whether these gifts which God has given to men , are bringing us nearer to our divine birthright of life ...
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... Father ? Do you not see that there are two kinds of success ? There is success which so blinds a man with self- applause that he looks about him like the king in the Bible story , saying , “ Is not this great Babylon which I have ...
... Father ? Do you not see that there are two kinds of success ? There is success which so blinds a man with self- applause that he looks about him like the king in the Bible story , saying , “ Is not this great Babylon which I have ...
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Page 107 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole ! " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul...
Page 289 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 81 - And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Page 132 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
Page 146 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 81 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 81 - And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them : and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Page 210 - Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 53 - And he asked him, What is thy name ? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Page 176 - He may set himself to earn money for that which is not bread and labor for that which satisfieth not.