The Sphinx's Children and Other People'sHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 484 pages |
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Page 361 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 178 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Page 364 - Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us ? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 392 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 26 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone, for if this council, or this work, be of men, it will come to naught, but if it be of God you cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 240 - TWAS in the watches of the night, I thought upon thy power ; I kept thy lovely face in sight, Amid the darkest hour. 2 My flesh lay resting on my bed, My soul arose on high ; " My God, my life, my hope," I said,
Page 121 - ... mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey; Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.
Page 30 - He's been a-sayin' that if folks practised what they preached, you'd ha' come round to look him up afore now ; but he reckoned you kinder looked down on mill hands. I'm awful glad you come.
Page 355 - Cor. xiii. [7.] peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable and manly thing.
Page 194 - Scripture saith," answered Thomas Tucker, stalking out of the door. That night, as he sat in his study, the door opened softly, and Emily Manning came in and knelt at the side of the parson's chair. " I have no place to go to, sir," she whispered, with trembling lips. " You saved me to-day; will you help me now ? I was going to sin, but I didn't know it till you told me.