The patience of hope, by the author of 'A present Heaven'.

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Page 115 - He shall wound the head of him who rules over a great country.'' " He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the head." Then also thou wilt reveal thyself to
Page 11 - onwards to that end, seeing his own destiny and feeling his own freedom. " I have power," he says, " to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.
Page 78 - They shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west ; they shall spoil them of the east together ; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them."
Page 103 - I know the thoughts that I think concerning you," saith the Lord, " thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 7 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Page 79 - And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hosts
Page 14 - that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways ! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries ;
Page 42 - saying,—" I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; another will come in his own name,
Page 82 - Awake, 0 north wind, and come thou south ; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may How out.
Page 80 - I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly ;

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