A Receivership for Civilization from Biblical Church with Its Primitive World and Jewish Legends to Aryan Science with Its Infinite Universe and Established FactsFour seas Company, 1922 - 328 pages |
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Page 99 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 256 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 158 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 212 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat.
Page 212 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 230 - There is no place where earth's sorrows Are more felt than up in heaven ; There is no place where earth's failings Have such kindly judgment given.
Page 230 - For the love of God is broader Than the measure of man's mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.
Page 195 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 157 - Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; And break forth into singing, O mountains: For the Lord hath comforted his people, And will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Page 212 - The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.