The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1845 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... give an insight into his character in this respect . He laments the destruction of the " rotten boroughs " of England . He thinks it a good thing that half a dozen men , or even a single man , should have had power to send a member to ...
... give an insight into his character in this respect . He laments the destruction of the " rotten boroughs " of England . He thinks it a good thing that half a dozen men , or even a single man , should have had power to send a member to ...
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... give it . Cannot the Infinite Being do that for all minds , which you can do for one ? And how would you give it ? You would , perhaps imperceptibly and indirectly , touch some spring in your child's mind which you saw and the way to ...
... give it . Cannot the Infinite Being do that for all minds , which you can do for one ? And how would you give it ? You would , perhaps imperceptibly and indirectly , touch some spring in your child's mind which you saw and the way to ...
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gifts to your children , how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him ? " We are content to make the Psalmist's wisdom ours ; and to say , with him , " Hear my prayer , O Lord , give ear unto my ...
gifts to your children , how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him ? " We are content to make the Psalmist's wisdom ours ; and to say , with him , " Hear my prayer , O Lord , give ear unto my ...
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... into the grand realities of their being , because they give no fixed and piercing attention to them . The insight canhot possibly come in any other way . Would it be a great thing , if any one 32 [ JAN . On the Reluctance to Pray .
... into the grand realities of their being , because they give no fixed and piercing attention to them . The insight canhot possibly come in any other way . Would it be a great thing , if any one 32 [ JAN . On the Reluctance to Pray .
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... give evidence of a very nice appreciation of the comparative value of the testimony he adduces , as affected by the time of the writer , or the suspicion of forgery or interpolation which attaches to the writing . Then again , he is not ...
... give evidence of a very nice appreciation of the comparative value of the testimony he adduces , as affected by the time of the writer , or the suspicion of forgery or interpolation which attaches to the writing . Then again , he is not ...
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Page 219 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died.
Page 42 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 214 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 100 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 217 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day
Page 101 - Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads?
Page 216 - Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose...
Page 30 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 99 - The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
Page 170 - ... change; it subdues to union under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things. It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes; its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.