Christian Thought on Life: In a Series of Discourses

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Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 287 páginas

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Página 4 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE VINE ON OPEN WALLS. To which is added, a Descriptive Account of an Improved Method of Planting and Managing the Roots of Grape Vines. With Plates. In one volume, 12mo, price 62 1-2 cents. XIX. ORTHOPHONY; Or the Culture of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of ELEMENTARY EXERCISES, adapted to Dr. Rush's "PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE," and the System of Vocal Culture introduced by Mr.
Página 115 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn ; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Página 68 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 26 - Thus, whatever the visible appearances, within them, there is a central self, in which the essence of the man abides. Your life is yours, it is not mine. My life is mine, and not another's. It is not alone specific, it is individual. Human faculties are common, but that which converge these faculties into my identity, separates me from every other man. That other man cannot think my thoughts, he cannot speak my words, ho cannot do my works.
Página 45 - ... unbroken, awful solitude of its own personal accountability ; and though the inhabitants of the universe were within the spirit's ken, this personal accountability is as strictly alone and unshared, as if no being were throughout immensity but the spirit and its God. The word written in the sacred book, declares that " every one of us shall give account of himself to God," and this is but a transcript of an earlier word, of " the law written in the heart.
Página 243 - In all the eras and ages of that church, from the hymn which first it whispered in an upper chamber, until its anthems filled the earth, the inspiration of the royal prophet has enraptured its devotions, and ennobled its rituals. And thus it has been, not alone, in the august cathedral or the rustic chapel. Chorused by the winds of heaven, they have swelled through God's own temple of the sky and stars ; they have rolled over the broad desert of Asia, in the matins and vespers of ten thousand hermits....
Página 64 - OF TIME'S CONTINUAL -SPEED. IN all the actions which a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that, for which alone, our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time keeps his constant pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment.
Página 107 - Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine.
Página 68 - Gibeon in life, upon which we can rest for a moment, the morning or the noon-tide ; there is no Ajalon in age, whereon we can force the moonlight to repose beyond its appointed hour. We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood ; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth ; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity ; we cannot fix the evening rays of age, in the shadowy horizon ; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of...
Página 65 - Whether we play or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue. But the difference between good and bad actions is infinite. Good actions, though they diminish our time here as well as bad actions, yet they lay up for us a happiness in eternity ; and will recompense what they take away, by a plentiful return at last.

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