The Band of Hope Record, Volumes 2-4

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Page 124 - For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 52 - Beneath this mouldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye; But start not at the dismal void: If social love that eye employed...
Page 112 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Page 51 - DEAL GENTLY WITH THE ERRING. DEAL gently with the erring; Ye know not of the power With which the dark temptation came In some unguarded hour. Ye may not know how earnestly They struggled, or how well, Until the hour of weakness came, And sadly thus they fell.
Page 38 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Page 158 - I'll bid higher and higher," Said Crime with wolfish grin, " For I love to lead the children Through the pleasant paths of sin. They shall swarm in the streets to pilfer, They shall plague the broad highway, Till they grow too old for pity, And ripe for the law to slay.
Page 73 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for 'in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 14 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 52 - Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer...
Page 51 - Speak kindly to the erring, Thou yet mayst lead them back, With holy words and tones of love, From misery's thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned, And sinful yet must be! Deal gently with the erring one, As God hath dealt with thee!

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