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Page 57 - It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Page 74 - Men feed upon the vanities and rejoice in these pomps, and say that the Church of Christ was never so flourishing, nor divine worship so well conducted as at present .... likewise that the first prelates were inferior to these of our own times. The former, it is true, had fewer gold mitres and fewer chalices, for indeed what few they possessed were broken up to relieve the needs of the poor; whereas our prelates, for the sake of obtaining chalices, will rob the poor of their sole means of support....
Page 267 - But therefore he may the more fitly be called a martyr by his fellow-men to all time. For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness — not because he sought to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony : not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow...
Page 255 - ... Spirit. I know that Thou art that Eternal Word who didst descend into the womb of the Virgin Mary, and didst rise upon the cross to shed Thy most precious blood for us miserable sinners. I pray Thee, my Lord, I pray for my salvation. I entreat Thee, Consoler, that this precious blood may not have been shed for me in vain, but may be for the remission of my sins, of which I ask Thee pardon, from the day when I received the waters of holy baptism till now ; and I confess to Thee, Lord, my sins....
Page 112 - And though many thousand people were thus collected together, no sound was to be heard, not even a " hush," until the arrival of the children, who sang hymns with so much sweetness that heaven seemed to have opened. Thus they waited three or four hours till the Padre entered the pulpit. And the attention of so great a mass of people, all with eyes and ears intent upon the preacher, was wonderful ; they listened so, that when the sermon reached its end it seemed to them that it had scarcely begun.
Page i - TM LINDSAY, DD BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM. By ARTHUR LILLIE. WILLIAM HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK. By JAMES SIME, MA, FRSE FRANCIS AND DOMINIC. By Prof. J. HERKLESS, DD SAVONAROLA. By Rev. G.
Page 80 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 76 - The divine word from the lips of Savonarola, descended not amongst his audience like the dews of heaven; it was the piercing hail, the sweeping whirlwind, the destroying sword.
Page 144 - ... and more bold, he felt himself constrained to return to his post. " First of all, however, I sought the Lord, saying : I was rejoicing in my peace and tranquillity, and Thou drewest me forth by showing me Thy light. ... I would fain repose, but find no resting-place — would fain remain still and silent, but may not, for the word of God is as a fire in my heart, and unless I give it vent, it will consume the marrow of my bones. Come then, O Lord, since Thou would'st have me steer through these...