...eternal." Let the voice which speaks to us of death, be sure also to proclaim to us life. For " "Pis life, whereof our nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not...death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want." Herein lies the great defect of that otherwise faultless poem, Gray's Elegy in a Country...

...Christians drawn to Christ are not drawn by death, bnt by life. " Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Tin life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller that we want." True Christians are in no sense vultures, and Christ is in no sense a carcase. The true explanation...

...crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. I ceas'd, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet...increased With freshness in the dawning east. Like soften'd airs that blowing steal, When meres begin to uncongeal, The sweet church bells began to peal....

...crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death,...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." I ceas'd, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the Sabbath morn."...

...practical assurance from his own, opens the window and looks forth into the early Sabbath morning : — ' And I arose, and I released The casement, and the...increased With freshness in the dawning east. ' Like soften'd airs that blowing steal, When meres begin to uncongeal, The sweet cburch-bells began to peal....

...minute dies a man, every minute one is born ;" and from whose voice there came that ooblest truth — Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes...death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want ! And this will be enough to recall to the recollection of not a few, the mournful incident...

...of being is being; that the fundamental want of man Is to prove, affirm, augment, his own life. 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death...which we pant; More life, and fuller, that I want. Man lives under the law of progress which is the striving after perfection, and of which the highest...

...crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death,...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." I ceas'd, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the Sabbath morn."...

...crazy sorrow saitb, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not...death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have l>een very sparing of quotations brought...

...crazy sorrow eaith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ''Tie life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not...death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have been very sparing of quotations brought...