The Mythe of Life: Four Sermons with an Introd. on the Social Mission of the ChurchMacmillan, 1880 - 126 من الصفحات |
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abstract law Auguste Comte Aylesbury beautiful believe bishop Buckinghamshire Caleb called character Christ Church Church of Christ Church of England Clergy clergyman confidence destiny Divine service doctrine of trust doubt duty earth Edward Irving emotional England evil existence fact FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE give God's gospel heart Holy Holy Spirit honour hope idea ideal individual industrial influence Jean Valjean Jesus kingdom of heaven labourer Lachesis land laws least lessons living Lord Derby man's means merely moral Mythe nations nature necessity object parish pauperism perhaps Plato poet poetry political poor-law power of trust practical prayer present progress public opinion question religion religious salvation sanitary science secular selfish Sermon social society speak spirit sure sympathy teaching tell things thought thrift time-server tion to-night trade Trades-unions true truth Valjean venture village virtue wages words Zaccheus
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الصفحة 48 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
الصفحة 126 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
الصفحة 82 - The tides of Music's golden sea Setting toward eternity, Uplifted high in heart and hope are we, Until we doubt not that for one so true There must be other nobler work to do Than when he fought at Waterloo, And Victor he must ever be. For tho...
الصفحة 64 - ... and goes and comes near him according as that good man frequents the house. He entertains him, gives him gifts, feasts him, lodges him ; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally...
الصفحة 76 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
الصفحة 64 - A wealthy man addicted to his pleasure and to his profits, finds religion to be a traffic so entangled, and of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade. What should he do...
الصفحة 67 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
الصفحة 106 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
الصفحة 98 - ... enfeebled. Of the old associations those that roused her most and that she longest retained the power of understanding, related to the Crimea. She had many friends of the younger generation in her old age. To one of these she wrote, and the words sum up her practical philosophy and her eager forward look: The Kingdom of Heaven is within, but we must also make it so without. There is no public opinion yet, it has to be created, as to not committing blunders for want of knowledge; good intentions...
الصفحة 52 - ... be buried. And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pile, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world. He said that when his soul left the body he went on a journey with a great company, and that they came to a mysterious place at which there were...