Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... become the head of the corner , and its foundation too . He is worshiped as a God . That is the rank assigned him by all but a fraction of the Christian world . It is no wonder . Good men worship the best thing they know , and call it ...
... become the head of the corner , and its foundation too . He is worshiped as a God . That is the rank assigned him by all but a fraction of the Christian world . It is no wonder . Good men worship the best thing they know , and call it ...
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... become better ; more manly ; upright before God and downright before men ; that we might be Christians , men good and pious after the fashion Jesus spoke of . The first design of such a church then is to help ourselves become Christians ...
... become better ; more manly ; upright before God and downright before men ; that we might be Christians , men good and pious after the fashion Jesus spoke of . The first design of such a church then is to help ourselves become Christians ...
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... becoming Christians let us not cease to be men ; nay , we cannot be Christians unless we are men first . It were unchristian to love Christianity better than the truth , or Christ better than man . But Christianity is not only the ...
... becoming Christians let us not cease to be men ; nay , we cannot be Christians unless we are men first . It were unchristian to love Christianity better than the truth , or Christ better than man . But Christianity is not only the ...
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... become the church trium- phant . If a church were to waste less time in building its palaces of theological speculation , palaces mainly of straw , and based upon the chaff , erecting air - castles and fighting battles to defend those ...
... become the church trium- phant . If a church were to waste less time in building its palaces of theological speculation , palaces mainly of straw , and based upon the chaff , erecting air - castles and fighting battles to defend those ...
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... become more apparent . I wished to be able to speak coolly and with knowledge of the facts , that we might understand the comparative merits of the present war . Besides , I have waited for others , in the churches , of more experience ...
... become more apparent . I wished to be able to speak coolly and with knowledge of the facts , that we might understand the comparative merits of the present war . Besides , I have waited for others , in the churches , of more experience ...
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Page 50 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me.
Page 333 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page 168 - Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglass in red herrings ; And noble name and cultured land, Palace, and park, and vassal band. Are powerless to the notes of hand Of Rothschild or the Barings.
Page 71 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Page 70 - She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head ; A pious man whom duty brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bathes my head?
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 127 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me.
Page 28 - For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn.
Page 8 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.