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Page 29 - We thank Thee that Thy Church unsleeping, While earth rolls onward into light, Through all the world her watch is keeping, And rests not now by day or night. 3 As o'er each continent and island The dawn leads on another day, The voice of prayer is never silent, Nor dies the strain of praise away.
Page 8 - What we have seen with our eyes, and heard with our ears, and our hands have handled, these things have we written unto you.
Page 18 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 22 - The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again. Through him the first fond prayers are said Our lips of childhood frame, The last low whispers of our dead Are burdened with his name.
Page 69 - If the various checks specified in the two last paragraphs, and perhaps others as yet unknown, do not prevent the reckless, the vicious and otherwise inferior members of society from increasing at a quicker rate than the better class of men, the nation will retrograde, as has occurred too often in the history of the world.
Page 42 - During the past five hundred years the people of this belt have added nothing whatever to human advancement. Those natives of the tropics and subtropics who have not been under direct European influence have not during that time made a single contribution of the first importance to art, literature, science, manufacture or invention. They have not produced an engineer, or a chemist, or a biologist, or a historian or a printer or a musician of the first rank.
Page 166 - And slay not your children for fear of poverty; we will provide for them ; beware ! for to slay them is ever a great sin!
Page 22 - O Lord and Master of us all! Whate'er our name or sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine.
Page 154 - ... tents, they were scolded for not continuing the exercise.* Instead of teaching the boy civil manners, the father desires him to beat and pelt the strangers who come to the tent ; to steal or to secrete in joke some trifling article belonging to them ; and the more saucy and impudent they are, the more troublesome to strangers, and all the men of the encampment, the more they are praised as giving indication of a future enterprising and warlike disposition.