The Sunday at Home, Volume 38Religious Tract Society, 1891 |
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... perhaps , a more dignified and leisurely step , you don't get out of the way . You might almost as soon go to pick a lily of the valley or a violet in a bed of Jerusalem artichokes , or in the middle of a gooseberry - bush , as go to a ...
... perhaps , a more dignified and leisurely step , you don't get out of the way . You might almost as soon go to pick a lily of the valley or a violet in a bed of Jerusalem artichokes , or in the middle of a gooseberry - bush , as go to a ...
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... perhaps be seen a little , wan bit of a moon . He liked the early hours , and the farm - work out - of- doors , and his dinner , which he sat beneath a hedge to eat , and the old horse he took care of , and the clever sheep - dog , and ...
... perhaps be seen a little , wan bit of a moon . He liked the early hours , and the farm - work out - of- doors , and his dinner , which he sat beneath a hedge to eat , and the old horse he took care of , and the clever sheep - dog , and ...
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... perhaps cultivating literature , or pursuing art ; perhaps living what is called " a gay life ; " yet ever 27 obliged to adopt as his own experience the words of the eloquent Bolingbroke : " I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world ...
... perhaps cultivating literature , or pursuing art ; perhaps living what is called " a gay life ; " yet ever 27 obliged to adopt as his own experience the words of the eloquent Bolingbroke : " I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world ...
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... Perhaps the most spiritual of his poems is a lovely little parable , expressing longing for communion with God , and faith in the return of His felt presence . It begins : - Not always unimpeded can I pray . It is entitled " The Seaweed ...
... Perhaps the most spiritual of his poems is a lovely little parable , expressing longing for communion with God , and faith in the return of His felt presence . It begins : - Not always unimpeded can I pray . It is entitled " The Seaweed ...
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... perhaps the best known of his poems , and need not therefore be quoted . The poet is a firm believer in the sacredness of daily life : - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendours lie ; Daily , with souls that ...
... perhaps the best known of his poems , and need not therefore be quoted . The poet is a firm believer in the sacredness of daily life : - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendours lie ; Daily , with souls that ...
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Page 37 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world: Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.
Page 430 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 130 - But unto the wicked God saith, "What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? "Seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee.
Page 400 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 76 - Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked) and did cast himself into the sea.
Page 259 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 148 - In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads, them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
Page 12 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 328 - Bethlehem's hill-site before me is seen, With the mountains around, and the valleys between ; There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there The song of the angels rose sweet on the air. And Bethany's palm-trees in beauty still throw Their shadows at noon on the ruins below ; But where are the sisters who hastened to greet The lowly Redeemer, and sit at His feet...
Page 209 - Solomon's porch ; and of the rest durst no man join himself to them. But the people magnified them ; and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women ; insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.