World Facts and America's ResponsibilityAssociation Press, 1919 - 236 pages |
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Page 126 - Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel ; which is come unto you, as it is in all the world...
Page 196 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 210 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 111 - Washington's immortal warning against "entangling alliances" with full comprehension and an answering purpose. But only special and limited alliances entangle ; and we recognize and accept the duty of a new day in which we are permitted to hope for a general alliance which will avoid entanglements and clear the air of the world for common understandings and the maintenance of common rights.
Page 196 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Page 77 - PEACE is declared, an' I return To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same; Things 'ave transpired which made me learn The size and meanin' of the game. I did no more than others did, I don't know where the change began; I started as a average kid, I finished as a thinkin
Page 224 - Church, which is set today amid the perplexities of a changing order, and face to face with a great new task.
Page 86 - His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes, With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war, With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands ; What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas? Are all nations communing ? is there going to be but one heart to the globe ? Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth,...
Page 223 - And turning to the disciples, he said privately: Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.
Page 88 - European connections, although actually becoming more intimate — will, nevertheless, relatively sink in importance ; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter...