The Creed of Jesus and Other Sermons

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C. Scribner's sons, 1907 - 280 pages
 

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Page 238 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 177 - If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Page 54 - Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone : and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Page 95 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 45 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 103 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 45 - Abraham his father, and said, My father : and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering...
Page 105 - And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, saying: If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 238 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 98 - Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of Faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The rock beneath.

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