The Story of Our BibleC. Scribner's sons, 1914 - 317 pages |
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... song into the air , It fell to earth , I know not where . For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song . " Long , long afterward in an oak , I found the arrow still unbroke , And the song from beginning to ...
... song into the air , It fell to earth , I know not where . For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song . " Long , long afterward in an oak , I found the arrow still unbroke , And the song from beginning to ...
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... songs of Elizabeth and Mary . It alone introduces us to the home of Mary and Martha and to the ministering women who , like the disciples , shared in Jesus ' work . It recounts the parable of the quest of the housewife for the lost ...
... songs of Elizabeth and Mary . It alone introduces us to the home of Mary and Martha and to the ministering women who , like the disciples , shared in Jesus ' work . It recounts the parable of the quest of the housewife for the lost ...
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... song as it broke from her lips . It is Luke who tells us how Mary hastened away to visit her cousin , Elizabeth , to tell her her wonderful secret . It is Luke alone who tells us how the mother laid her child in the manger , and how the ...
... song as it broke from her lips . It is Luke who tells us how Mary hastened away to visit her cousin , Elizabeth , to tell her her wonderful secret . It is Luke alone who tells us how the mother laid her child in the manger , and how the ...
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... songs , and stories , which were carried in the memory , and thus handed on from one generation to another . Some of these ancient songs are quoted in the Old Testament , as we shall see . After the Hebrews crossed the Jordan , however ...
... songs , and stories , which were carried in the memory , and thus handed on from one generation to another . Some of these ancient songs are quoted in the Old Testament , as we shall see . After the Hebrews crossed the Jordan , however ...
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... Song of Deborah , in some modern version , as in Kent's Historical Bible . ) DISCUSSING THE LESSON . The teacher might begin by asking if the pupils themselves have ever sung " songs around a campfire . " Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls ...
... Song of Deborah , in some modern version , as in Kent's Historical Bible . ) DISCUSSING THE LESSON . The teacher might begin by asking if the pupils themselves have ever sung " songs around a campfire . " Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls ...
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ADDITIONAL READING REFERENCES Amos ancient Apostle Authorized Version Babylonian ben Sira Biblical book of Job book of Proverbs boys Bring called century chapter character Christ church copies Corinth Corinthians Deuteronomist disciples DISCUSSING THE LESSON edition English Bible Ephesus epistle Erasmus example fact faith Geneva Bible genuine girls gospel Gospel of John Gospel of Mark Greek hand Hebrew Hosea influence INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS interest Irenæus Isaiah Israel Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jewish Christians Jews John Judah Kent Kings language later Latin LESSON STORY letter lived Luke Luther's Mark Matthew missionary narratives nation Old Testament original Paul Paul's person Peter possible printed probably prophets Psalms pupil's book pupils purpose question regarding religion religious revision Roman Rome scholars scribe Song spirit Suppose teachings TELLING THE LESSON temple Testament books things thou tion translation Tyndale Tyndale's verse words writings written wrote Wyclif
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Page 89 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 40 - All ye shall be offended : for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad. Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.
Page 38 - I had heard the subject handled a thousand times — I had thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I suppose, that in the wild woods of America, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give to this topic a new and more sublime pathos, than I had ever before witnessed. " As he descended from the pulpit, to distribute the mystic symbols...
Page 273 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 308 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun; which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 4 - THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, I i.
Page 92 - That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life...
Page 167 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 299 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 89 - I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about: For there I picked up on the heather, And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather ! Well, I forget the rest.