Unity Pulpit, Volume 2G.H. Ellis, 1880 |
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... leaves start out on the trees , so as to form for us a gracious covering and shade from the too ardent sun ; as the grass carpets the old earth and makes it a pleasant bed for us to lie upon under these trees , where we can watch the ...
... leaves start out on the trees , so as to form for us a gracious covering and shade from the too ardent sun ; as the grass carpets the old earth and makes it a pleasant bed for us to lie upon under these trees , where we can watch the ...
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... leaves all the rest in the dark . Could I have my choice , I would take hold of the hands of the brothers and sisters of the whole family , hold ourselves up as well as we could , walk along as well as we could , find our pathway as ...
... leaves all the rest in the dark . Could I have my choice , I would take hold of the hands of the brothers and sisters of the whole family , hold ourselves up as well as we could , walk along as well as we could , find our pathway as ...
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... leave man out of account . And I wish you would take special notice of this one thought , because here , as it seems ... leaves man all out of account , - simply looks at clouds , mountains , rivers , trees , the animal world , and ...
... leave man out of account . And I wish you would take special notice of this one thought , because here , as it seems ... leaves man all out of account , - simply looks at clouds , mountains , rivers , trees , the animal world , and ...
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... leave me only struggle and labor and weariness , simply for bread ? If God is my Father , the Father of all mankind , why is it that every little while some one dies of starvation , in wretchedness and rags ? Why is it that there are so ...
... leave me only struggle and labor and weariness , simply for bread ? If God is my Father , the Father of all mankind , why is it that every little while some one dies of starvation , in wretchedness and rags ? Why is it that there are so ...
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... leave the question beyond a doubt . suppose such letters were there to - day : would it be any more strange than the shapes of the constellations ? Would it not be just as easy for us to say that they happened to come so ? Or suppose ...
... leave the question beyond a doubt . suppose such letters were there to - day : would it be any more strange than the shapes of the constellations ? Would it not be just as easy for us to say that they happened to come so ? Or suppose ...
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Popular passages
Page 11 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 12 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 1 - Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers...
Page 12 - 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 15 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 18 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Page 16 - THOU art, O GOD, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine...
Page 11 - For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 11 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
Page 14 - Who knows whither the clouds have fled ? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache...