The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1845 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... light , more wonderful than the electric fire ; some- thing which would explain all , spread a new light over all the fields of knowledge , and unfold the universal plan in new order and beauty ; with what eagerness would he examine ...
... light , more wonderful than the electric fire ; some- thing which would explain all , spread a new light over all the fields of knowledge , and unfold the universal plan in new order and beauty ; with what eagerness would he examine ...
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... Light . In infi- nite streams they forever flow from that one Source . Surely this cannot be believed , if prayer and praise are irksome . We would even that we could bring back some- thing of the ancient reverence for God ; something ...
... Light . In infi- nite streams they forever flow from that one Source . Surely this cannot be believed , if prayer and praise are irksome . We would even that we could bring back some- thing of the ancient reverence for God ; something ...
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... light . Prayer too is an end . The adoring contemplation of God is the sublimest point of human attainment : and this , not because he is God , the Sovereign , the Ruler , but because he is the sum of all wisdom , goodness , perfection ...
... light . Prayer too is an end . The adoring contemplation of God is the sublimest point of human attainment : and this , not because he is God , the Sovereign , the Ruler , but because he is the sum of all wisdom , goodness , perfection ...
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... light ; that he should feel himself to be destitute and forlorn , to whom life , existence , earth , heaven , open their unbounded resources ; that there should be but an " aching void " in this crowding plenitude of blessings ; and ...
... light ; that he should feel himself to be destitute and forlorn , to whom life , existence , earth , heaven , open their unbounded resources ; that there should be but an " aching void " in this crowding plenitude of blessings ; and ...
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... lights " of the Asiatic church , as the Apostles John and Philip , and several martyrs whom he names , always observed the feast on the fourteenth day of the moon , whatever might be the day of the week . Seven of his relatives , he ...
... lights " of the Asiatic church , as the Apostles John and Philip , and several martyrs whom he names , always observed the feast on the fourteenth day of the moon , whatever might be the day of the week . Seven of his relatives , he ...
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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.