Lives and Deeds Worth Knowing about: With Other MiscellaniesRobert Carter, 1870 - 375 pages |
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Lives and Deeds Worth Knowing About: With Other Miscellanies William Fleming Stevenson No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 356 - LEAVE God to order all thy ways, And hope in Him whate'er betide, Thou'lt find Him in the evil days Thy all-sufficient strength and guide ; Who trusts in God's unchanging love, Builds on the rock that nought can move.
Page 53 - A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father ? They say unto him, The first.
Page 243 - The rapt One, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks in whispers, "Who next will drop and disappear?
Page 253 - our Mayor's a noddy And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease?
Page 315 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly to a kingdom or estate a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for in a slothful peace both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
Page 151 - And wait in cheerful hope, content To take whate'er His gracious will, His all-discerning love hath sent. Nor doubt our inmost wants are known To Him who chose us for His own.
Page 329 - ... great, subtle and crafty means to deceive the people ; bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtlety have deceived the people of their money, and also have committed many heinous felonies and robberies.
Page 168 - gave himself an immense deal of trouble to lead a holy life," and was unanimously elected a saint ; but the saint was miserable, and cried out...
Page 153 - Sing, pray, and swerve not from His ways, But do thine own part faithfully. Trust His rich promises of grace, So shall they be fulfilled in thee. God never yet forsook at need The soul that trusted Him indeed.
Page 100 - ELIEVE, hope, love, pray, burn, waken the dead ! Hold fast by prayer ; wrestle like Jacob ! Up, up, my brethren ! the Lord is coming, and to every one he will say, Where hast thou left the souls of these heathen?— with the devil? Oh, swiftly seek these souls, and enter not without them into the presence of the Lord !" With these instructions from Father Gossner four missionaries sailed for India, about fifteen years ago.