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Page 793 - all things with its own hue. In some measure this is true of us all. I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady! we receive but what we give, * And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her
Page 636 - find the grave ?" If, then, the mere desire to be unclothed were spirituality, that passionate imprecation of Job's was spiritual. But St. Paul's feeling -was: "Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." With him a desire to depart and to be
Page 835 - years ago, was declared when an apostle told us, "Nay, more, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary ; and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor." " " Undo Tom's Cabin.
Page 450 - that he is respectable, or well-off, or honored, but in that he serves, like Him, " Who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." Now it is enough to quote the apostle's view, "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ," and at once you are in a different atmosphere of thought.
Page 817 - fen Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh '. raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thou
Page 672 - in the Epistle to the Philippians: " For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ." There is, however, one touch of graceful delicacy in the
Page 521 - He that despised Moses's law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and put Him to an open shame !" And these Corinthians were boasting of their privileges, vaunting their liberties, talking of rights instead of doing duties, speaking of freedom, brotherhood, and
Page 795 - have made it my concern to exhibit that which is common to all men.'' As a specimen of this, take that well-known poem: She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight; To be a moment's ornament; A lovely apparition, sent
Page 690 - had been given in these words : " If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?"
Page 695 - some sentence or some act of Christ. For example, when the apostle delivered his last charge to the weeping Church of Ephesus, he urged on them the duty of supporting the weak by loving labor, and enforced it thus: " I have showed you all things. How that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the