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... claims which one man may make on another - - husband on wife , friend on friend . But there is a right sort of jealousy ... claim of a father on the hearts of His children . " If I be a Father , where is mine honour . " Yes , if God were ...
... claims which one man may make on another - - husband on wife , friend on friend . But there is a right sort of jealousy ... claim of a father on the hearts of His children . " If I be a Father , where is mine honour . " Yes , if God were ...
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... claims the love and service of each , impar- tially and individually ; and who , if for a while He hides His face from us , and disciplines us with sharp punish- ment , will certainly at the last give us the fullest measure of ...
... claims the love and service of each , impar- tially and individually ; and who , if for a while He hides His face from us , and disciplines us with sharp punish- ment , will certainly at the last give us the fullest measure of ...
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... claim on men . At all times and for all men , under all religions , " the light which lighteneth every man " must be ... claiming the allegiance of man . Only where He is most clearly revealed , there He speaks with greatest authority ...
... claim on men . At all times and for all men , under all religions , " the light which lighteneth every man " must be ... claiming the allegiance of man . Only where He is most clearly revealed , there He speaks with greatest authority ...
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... claims . " It is the property of the true ring , " said the judge , " to make its owner beloved of God and man . Who is the best beloved of his fellows ? " Alas ! No one of the three was beloved of his fellows . Each was selfish and ...
... claims . " It is the property of the true ring , " said the judge , " to make its owner beloved of God and man . Who is the best beloved of his fellows ? " Alas ! No one of the three was beloved of his fellows . Each was selfish and ...
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... claim for truth . The important matter is not what a man's creed is , but what his conduct is . The more Now there are many fallacies in this opinion . It is , for example , quite certain that what a man's conduct will be will depend in ...
... claim for truth . The important matter is not what a man's creed is , but what his conduct is . The more Now there are many fallacies in this opinion . It is , for example , quite certain that what a man's conduct will be will depend in ...
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Page 26 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 54 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Page 26 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man. he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 1 - THO' truths in manhood darkly join, Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ; For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors.
Page 26 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou. Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Page 103 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 56 - Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me : shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee ? And his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due. So shall also My heavenly Father do unto you if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
Page 83 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Page 109 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name : that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father'
Page 97 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.