Christian Thought on Life: In a Series of Discourses

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Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 287 halaman
 

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Halaman 66 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Halaman 237 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Halaman 170 - Matthew to be his disciple, declares that he came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance, and justifies his disciples in not fasting.
Halaman 2 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE VINE ON OPEN WALLS. To which is added, a Descriptive Account of an Improved Method of Planting and Managing the Roots of Grape Vines. With Plates. In one volume, 12mo, price 62 1-2 cenU. XIX. ORTHOPHONY ; Or the Culture of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of ELEMENTARY EXERCISES, adapted to Dr. Rush's "PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE," and the System of Vocal Culture introduced by Mr.
Halaman 113 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Halaman 170 - It despises a difference of manners, or of person ; and it compares all disadvantageously with itself. But rapacity can render the unsanctified heart as cruel as the uncivilized ; and this, the sufferings of unhappy and unprotected millions all over the sinful world, can testify with groanings which cannot be uttered ! Contempt — stern, heartless, and godless — in every place of this sinful earth where man causes grief to man in permanent injustice — yes, in every such afflicted place, contempt...
Halaman 43 - ... to him in memories charged with terror ; though he should be in the midst of ten thousand, they will come to him alone ; though he could grasp in thought the whole population of the world, he will be conscious that on him only the charge is made, that he only in this case is the being meant, that he only is the being guilty. Here, at least, is a strict, individual personality ; and though a man may blind himself to the witness of God, God has so ordered it, that he cannot entirely be blind to...
Halaman 241 - In all the eras and ages of that church, from the hymn which first it whispered in an upper chamber, until its anthems filled the earth, the inspiration of the royal prophet has enraptured its devotions, and ennobled its rituals. And thus it has been, not alone, in the august cathedral or the rustic chapel. Chorused by the winds of heaven, they have swelled through God's own temple of the sky and stars ; they have rolled over the broad desert of Asia, in the matins and vespers of ten thousand hermits....
Halaman 62 - OF TIME'S CONTINUAL -SPEED. IN all the actions which a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that, for which alone, our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time keeps his constant pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment.
Halaman 137 - Eough or disagreeable truth is not to be endured, but what then must be positive injustice ? Sensitive at all points, such persons are hurt when you do not know it and could not intend it. Often you give a mortal stab when you but made a careless movement ; they ponder over words and actions, until a mole-hill seems to be a mountain, and they revolve and revolve the thought so often, that an offence becomes fixed immovably in their imaginations ; they catch the transgressor by the throat, and will...

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