Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... present age affords , all this to be suited to the tender years of the child . Christianity should be represented as human , as man's nature in its true greatness ; religion shown to be beautiful , a real duty corresponding to man's ...
... present age affords , all this to be suited to the tender years of the child . Christianity should be represented as human , as man's nature in its true greatness ; religion shown to be beautiful , a real duty corresponding to man's ...
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... living church , that grows with the advance of men's sentiments , ideas and actions , and while it keeps the good of the past will lose no brave spirit of the men . present day . It can teach much ; 3 OF A CHRISTIAN CHURCH . 25.
... living church , that grows with the advance of men's sentiments , ideas and actions , and while it keeps the good of the past will lose no brave spirit of the men . present day . It can teach much ; 3 OF A CHRISTIAN CHURCH . 25.
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Theodore Parker. men . present day . It can teach much ; now moderating the fury of men , then quickening their sluggish steps . We expect the sins of commerce to be winked at in the street ; the sins of the state to be applauded on ...
Theodore Parker. men . present day . It can teach much ; now moderating the fury of men , then quickening their sluggish steps . We expect the sins of commerce to be winked at in the street ; the sins of the state to be applauded on ...
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... present age . Men call their temples after their old heroes . and saints John , Paul , Peter , and the like . But we call nothing else after the old names ; a school of philosophy would be condemned if called Aristotelian , Platonic ...
... present age . Men call their temples after their old heroes . and saints John , Paul , Peter , and the like . But we call nothing else after the old names ; a school of philosophy would be condemned if called Aristotelian , Platonic ...
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... present like him ; pray as he prayed ; work as he wrought ; live as he lived . Let our doctrines and our forms fit the soul , as the limbs fit the body , growing out of it , growing with it . Let us have a church for the whole man ...
... present like him ; pray as he prayed ; work as he wrought ; live as he lived . Let our doctrines and our forms fit the soul , as the limbs fit the body , growing out of it , growing with it . Let us have a church for the whole man ...
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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.