Memorial of the Late Rev. Henry Allon, D.D.: An Account of the Services, Sermons, and Addresses Delivered in Connection with His Death and Funeral, April 1892

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1892 - 49 pages
 

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Page 44 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 22 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account : that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
Page 43 - And the angels all were silent. "Should I be nearer Christ," she said, " By pitying less The sinful living, or woeful dead In their helplessness?" And the angels all were silent. "Should I be liker Christ were I To love no more The loved, who in their anguish lie Outside the door?
Page 23 - His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge ; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Page 43 - And the angels all were silent. " Should I be liker, nearer Him, Forgetting this, Singing all day with the Seraphim, In selfish bliss?
Page 36 - Infinite and the finite, he was always demanding of himself a reasonable account of his own beliefs.
Page 31 - Calvinism was a coherent system, or whether it was not built on principles which were mutually destructive. They asked whether its account of the relations between God and man answered to the facts which were ascertained by the ethical and religious consciousness of Christian men.
Page 38 - Maintain for him and for yourselves an unfaltering faith in Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
Page 11 - Reaper of this golden grain is not DEATH, but our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who had need of these ripe ears. We must be willing in the day of our Lord's great power. We dare not grudge this noble worker and soldier of the faith to the armies of heaven. He has long been preparing for the perfect service...

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