The Cross in Japan: A Study of Achievement and OpportunityFleming H. Revell, 1914 - 367 pages |
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The Cross in Japan: A Study of Achievement and Opportunity (Classic Reprint) Fred Eugene Hagin No preview available - 2018 |
The Cross in Japan: A Study of Achievement and Opportunity Fred Eugene Hagin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 113 - Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the Gospel's, 30.
Page 346 - Baptism we are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, upon the promise, 1.
Page 144 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting, too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
Page 314 - God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands. Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 134 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 112 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 16 - There shall be a perfect, permanent, and universal peace, and a sincere and cordial amity between the United States of America on the one part, and the Empire of Japan on the other part, and between their people respectively, without exception of persons or places.
Page 144 - If you can dream — and not make dreams your master If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim...
Page 164 - All we can do is nothing worth Unless God blesses the deed; Vainly we hope for the harvesttide Till God gives life to the seed; Yet nearer and nearer draws the time, The time that shall surely be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea.
Page 154 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.