Platt's essays, Volume 2Simpkin, Marshall, 1884 |
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Page 210 - say that he hath faith, and have not works ? Can his faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say to them, " Depart in peace, be warmed and be filled," notwithstanding ye give them not the things needful for
Page 364 - This longing, after immortality ? Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out—an Hereafter, And intimates—Eternity to man. Eternity !—thou pleasing—dreadful thought
Page 406 - and, dying, have a place among those ' ' Immortal dead who still live on 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 284 - Simple, yet inexorable ; universal and inevitable. The true test of a law of Nature is, " that it rules everywhere alike." Take, for example, the law of gravitation— " The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law maintains the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 205 - What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 170 - an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 287 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts.
Page 207 - it is written of Him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It had been good for that man if he had not been born.