Tarry Thou Till I Come: Or Salathiel, the Wandering JewFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 - 588 pages |
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Page xxx - much more shall the Jews, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree? For God is able to graft them in again. For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits: that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fulness of
Page 425 - shown by the mouth of all His prophets that Christ should suffer, He hath fulfilled. But ye have heard, but ye have been c-onverted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come. But ye have been called—but ye have been justified—but ye shall be glorified. Our hope of you is
Page 139 - in Thy cause, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness — Thine alone be the praise, Thine the glory,
Page 502 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegroom and the bride, a voice against this whole people.
Page 546 - of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that the sacred personage whose history they contain should be Himself
Page 55 - this land? What meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers! " The soil has been blasted. Sterility has struck into its heart. Whole provinces are covered with sands and
Page x - the seed? Whence the germ of life in the kingdom of heaven? Who can tell? The wind bloweth where it listet.h. Thou seest the effect of it, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. So is
Page 549 - Whatever may be the surprises of the future, Jesus will never be surpassed. His worship will grow young without ceasing; His legend will call forth tears without end ; His sufferings will melt the noblest hearts ; all ages will proclaim that among the sons of men there is none born greater than Jesus. THE
Page 548 - symbol. Jesus of Nazareth, and His life and His biography. and what followed therefrom. Higher has the human thought not yet reached : this Christianity and Christendom—a symbol of quite perennial infinite character, whose significance will ever demand to be anew inquired into, and anew made manifest.
Page 548 - now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.