The Andover Review, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885 - Religion |
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... once sought to embody is a conspicuous characteristic of the modern pulpit . The most influential preachers in all the schools illustrate it in their preaching . None of them , so far as I am aware , lay unnecessary burdens upon the ...
... once sought to embody is a conspicuous characteristic of the modern pulpit . The most influential preachers in all the schools illustrate it in their preaching . None of them , so far as I am aware , lay unnecessary burdens upon the ...
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... once , " Must we not return in our preaching in behalf of missions to the theology which was identified with their origin and early history ? " That is the question . It is a more serious question than those who ask it may at first ...
... once , " Must we not return in our preaching in behalf of missions to the theology which was identified with their origin and early history ? " That is the question . It is a more serious question than those who ask it may at first ...
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... once that it should be improved and cared for , and the New England pastors proceeded to give it the benefit of the best thought , the best scholarship , and the best talent which they could obtain or be- stow . When we see how often ...
... once that it should be improved and cared for , and the New England pastors proceeded to give it the benefit of the best thought , the best scholarship , and the best talent which they could obtain or be- stow . When we see how often ...
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... once more at contemporary events in the mother country . These were the days of the Puritan Parliament and the Civil War . Continued turmoil and dissension had brought the purity of the Puritan party to a low point , at which the noisy ...
... once more at contemporary events in the mother country . These were the days of the Puritan Parliament and the Civil War . Continued turmoil and dissension had brought the purity of the Puritan party to a low point , at which the noisy ...
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... Africus ; et vastos volunt ad litora fluctus . " Once these were only words to be scanned ; their realism now is something awful . As we near the African coast , however , winds 28 [ January , The Home of St. Augustine .
... Africus ; et vastos volunt ad litora fluctus . " Once these were only words to be scanned ; their realism now is something awful . As we near the African coast , however , winds 28 [ January , The Home of St. Augustine .
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Page 90 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 577 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 578 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 233 - Thousands of human generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up of Time, and there remains no wreck of them any more ; and Arcturus and Orion and Sirius and the Pleiades are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the Shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar.
Page 539 - 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 232 - Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Page 579 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 580 - I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Page 510 - You think the Charter would make you free — would to God it would! The Charter is not bad; if the men who use it are not bad ! But will the Charter make you free?
Page 18 - ... or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer — sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices. either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.