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... tears trickle , and widows sob . We do not see the tears , or hear the sob , but behind the brief paragraph that informs us of the event , we know what lies . Sometimes a bank fails , and what anguish does the short extract from the ...
... tears trickle , and widows sob . We do not see the tears , or hear the sob , but behind the brief paragraph that informs us of the event , we know what lies . Sometimes a bank fails , and what anguish does the short extract from the ...
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... tears that runs over it - there is nothing of this in the para- graph , yet we can picture it . We know that the few words in the paper involve a vast amount of misery . I have got an old Icelandic book , printed in Denmark , bound in ...
... tears that runs over it - there is nothing of this in the para- graph , yet we can picture it . We know that the few words in the paper involve a vast amount of misery . I have got an old Icelandic book , printed in Denmark , bound in ...
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... tears of Heaven are noted . Who saw them when they fell ? Who thought of them through the lapse of ages ? And now that which was hidden is revealed . The record The of the weeping skies is brought to light . secrets of the hidden ...
... tears of Heaven are noted . Who saw them when they fell ? Who thought of them through the lapse of ages ? And now that which was hidden is revealed . The record The of the weeping skies is brought to light . secrets of the hidden ...
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... tears only . Those stone pages of the Weald tell of some- thing more . They are in places furrowed with the ripple ... tear is but a tiny drop , but it is the , extract of great anguish . A sigh is but a 4 THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING .
... tears only . Those stone pages of the Weald tell of some- thing more . They are in places furrowed with the ripple ... tear is but a tiny drop , but it is the , extract of great anguish . A sigh is but a 4 THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING .
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... tears open the pearl oyster . The worm is choked for his silken cocoon , the sponge is wrenched from the rock for its skeleton . And mankind is , like the rest of animal nature , at war with every creature , and society reveals a ...
... tears open the pearl oyster . The worm is choked for his silken cocoon , the sponge is wrenched from the rock for its skeleton . And mankind is , like the rest of animal nature , at war with every creature , and society reveals a ...
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Page 17 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 9 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 11 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Page 15 - I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Page 16 - His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Page 13 - If thou wert pure and upright ; Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Page 42 - I forget. We have heard from hidden places What love scarce lives and hears : We have seen on fervent faces The pallor of strange tears : We have trod the wine-vat's treasure, Whence, ripe to steam and stain, Foams round the feet of pleasure The blood-red must of pain.
Page 15 - What is man, that he should be clean ? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Page 20 - Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering ; and my servant Job shall pray for you : for him will I accept : lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.