An Ethical Sunday School: A Scheme for the Moral Instruction of the Young

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S. Sonnenschein and Company, Limited, 1900 - 206 pages

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Page 58 - that is two or three thousand years old. Think what it means when I read it to you:— " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 168 - This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 93 - For I doubt not, through the ages One increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns.
Page 174 - to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 94 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low: Thou must, The youth replies : I can.
Page 116 - O Beautiful: my country: ours once more: What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it Among the nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare. Our
Page 94 - Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security.
Page 184 - :— " These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. ...
Page 16 - —Buddha. Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where a man might be freed from an evil
Page 93 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

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