The Repository, Volumes 51-52Universalist Publishing House, 1874 - Universalism |
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... present interest , as the early home of the brother whose life - story we are briefly to recall . It is in the township of Spring , Craw- ford County ; but the locality is better known as Patterson Hill , from the name of the family who ...
... present interest , as the early home of the brother whose life - story we are briefly to recall . It is in the township of Spring , Craw- ford County ; but the locality is better known as Patterson Hill , from the name of the family who ...
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... present day . The great central idea of Rousseau was that of the retrogression of the race , and in this he directly contradicts the now prevalent belief . To him , the primitive days were times of innocence , of rugged virtue and Eden ...
... present day . The great central idea of Rousseau was that of the retrogression of the race , and in this he directly contradicts the now prevalent belief . To him , the primitive days were times of innocence , of rugged virtue and Eden ...
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... present time , but for that which is to come ; in short , as adapted not to this world , but to the next . The estimate we place upon these truths is in accordance with the idea of their pro- spective value . The popular sentiment is ...
... present time , but for that which is to come ; in short , as adapted not to this world , but to the next . The estimate we place upon these truths is in accordance with the idea of their pro- spective value . The popular sentiment is ...
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... present , real , and practical on account of the difference . Some things are tangible , and some are in- tangible ... present importance as the salvation of God . It is deliver- ance from evil , from wrong of every kind as it finds ...
... present , real , and practical on account of the difference . Some things are tangible , and some are in- tangible ... present importance as the salvation of God . It is deliver- ance from evil , from wrong of every kind as it finds ...
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... present time . We really mean to do it some time , but from hour to hour , and from day to day , or even from week to week , from month to month , and from year to year , there seems some reason for post- ponement . Sometimes a matter ...
... present time . We really mean to do it some time , but from hour to hour , and from day to day , or even from week to week , from month to month , and from year to year , there seems some reason for post- ponement . Sometimes a matter ...
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Popular passages
Page 132 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 165 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 185 - The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius ; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
Page 165 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 472 - So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know I what had need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true?
Page 185 - And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the. aspect of a guide or genius ; for it commonly...
Page 438 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 250 - ... full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. some village Hampden that with dauntless breast the little tyrant of his fields withstood, some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Page 165 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 303 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.