The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939 |
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... never cease , " is the dogmatic and not very intelligent cry of multitudes , " until the gospel uni- versally prevails . It is useless and absurd to form a separate society for the purpose . Better use your efforts to preach and spread ...
... never cease , " is the dogmatic and not very intelligent cry of multitudes , " until the gospel uni- versally prevails . It is useless and absurd to form a separate society for the purpose . Better use your efforts to preach and spread ...
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... never do with so much advantage as by being taken into the counsel of some great prince , and by setting him on to noble and worthy things . " " You are doubly mistaken , Mr. More , " was the reply , " both in your opinion of me , and ...
... never do with so much advantage as by being taken into the counsel of some great prince , and by setting him on to noble and worthy things . " " You are doubly mistaken , Mr. More , " was the reply , " both in your opinion of me , and ...
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... never been able clearly to understand what process of metamorphosis it was that converted this person into an English citizen , so as to bring him under the august protection of the Foreign Office . Such , however , seems to have been ...
... never been able clearly to understand what process of metamorphosis it was that converted this person into an English citizen , so as to bring him under the august protection of the Foreign Office . Such , however , seems to have been ...
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... never convert a single human soul to that part of the system which it sneers at as im- practicable and Utopian , or which it represents not as a present truth , but as one which is only contingently and prospectively incumbent upon them ...
... never convert a single human soul to that part of the system which it sneers at as im- practicable and Utopian , or which it represents not as a present truth , but as one which is only contingently and prospectively incumbent upon them ...
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... never acted upon or needed , we shall presently show ; and also , by what other means peace to his province was maintained for seventy years , that is , as long as the principles of William Penn were suffered to govern the policy of the ...
... never acted upon or needed , we shall presently show ; and also , by what other means peace to his province was maintained for seventy years , that is , as long as the principles of William Penn were suffered to govern the policy of the ...
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Page 95 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 95 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 60 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 60 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, — Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, — An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" — The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, " The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 60 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations...
Page 60 - The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And...
Page 41 - When the war-drum throbs no longer, And the battle-flags are furled In the parliament of man, The federation of the world.
Page 60 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 91 - The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk 10 Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business...