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We may try a portion of the beautiful poem : : - So here hath been dawning Another blue day : Think , wilt thou let it Slip useless away ? To please the youngest we may have a song with the following words for a refrain , wanting in ...
We may try a portion of the beautiful poem : : - So here hath been dawning Another blue day : Think , wilt thou let it Slip useless away ? To please the youngest we may have a song with the following words for a refrain , wanting in ...
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Page 58 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 168 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. 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 174 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncalled for,) but 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/ " Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
Page 95 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
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 93 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 184 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 194 - Two angels guide The paths of man, both aged and yet young, As angels are, ripening through endless years. On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition ; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp which streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields Yet clings with loving cheek, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds.
Page 94 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot; Who do thy work and know it not; Oh!
Page 16 - 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 deed.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Ethical Sunday School: A Scheme for the Moral Instruction of the Young Ethical library |
| Author | Walter Lorenzo Sheldon |
| Publisher | S. Sonnenschein and Company, Limited, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 206 pages |
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