Sermons, Volume 1D.G. Francis, 1871 |
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17 ASTOR PLACE Alliance atheism beauty become believe better Bible called CALVERT VAUX cause character Christ Christendom Christian Church civil conscience conviction creatures crime D. G. FRANCIS death divine doctrine dream earnest earth eternal Evangelical Alliance evil excommunication existence eyes faith fancy feeling flowers force FORTY-FIRST AND FORTY-SECOND FORTY-SECOND STREETS heart Hebrew holy hope human idea idolatry imagination immortality inspiration Jesus justice kind kingdom of heaven liberty light live LYRIC HALL mankind means ment mind moral naked truth nature ness never O. B. FROTHINGHAM Old Testament OLIVER JOHNSON organized pain passion perfect person Pharisees prayer PREACHED IN LYRIC priest principle prophet Protestant Protestantism punishment Puritan qualities race reformer religion religious Roman roots saint sect sense sentiment SIXTH AVENUE social society soul spirit superstition Testament Theodore Parker things thought tion wealth whole women word worship
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Page 22 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Page 4 - And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 6 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire: so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 22 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 12 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 4 - Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
Page 8 - No more fatigue, no more distress, Nor sin, nor death, shall reach the place ; No groans shall mingle with the songs Which warble from immortal tongues.
Page 12 - WHERE the faded flower shall freshen, — Freshen never more to fade ; Where the shaded sky shall brighten, — Brighten never more to shade : Where the sun-blaze never scorches ; Where the star-beams cease to chill ; Where no tempest stirs the echoes Of the wood, or wave, or hill...
Page 15 - Above the howling senses' ebb and flow, To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam, Not with lost toil thou laborest through the night!
Page 16 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...