Comrades from Other Lands: What They are Doing for Us and what We are Doing for ThemFleming H. Revell Company, 1913 - 75 pages |
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Page 5 - Let us welcome, then, the strangers, Hail them as our friends and brothers, And the heart's right hand of friendship Give them when they come to see us. Gitche Manito, the Mighty, Said this to me in my vision. " I beheld, too, in that vision All the secrets of the future, Of the distant days that shall be. I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the laud was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in...
Page 57 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 19 - Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed: thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.
Page 58 - Whose hearts are kind and true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that I can do.
Page 15 - I tried to pick out the pieces of slate from the hurrying stream of coal, often missing them; my hands were bruised and cut in a few minutes...
Page 5 - Gitche Manito, the Mighty, Said this to me in my vision. " I beheld, too, in that vision, All the secrets of the future, Of the distant days that shall be. I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. In the woodlands rang their axes, Smoked their towns in all their valleys, Over all the lakes and rivers Rushed their great canoes of thunder.
Page 25 - Christ, who, though He was rich, yet, for our sakes, He became poor, that we, through His poverty, might be made rich.
Page 66 - ... the car went over an embankment, burying her beneath it and injuring her so seriously that she died the next morning. "The State has had no enrolled soldier," says Miss Kellor in her report of the first year's work of her Bureau, "who has responded to every call more promptly, who has performed the duties set him more unflinchingly, or who has given his life more utterly in the field of battle than she in the cause in which she believed.
Page 58 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me. And awaits my spirit, too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance. And the good that I can do.