Our Day: A Gift for the TimesJohn Greenleaf Adams |
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Page 120 - I will make thy officers peace, and thy exactors righteousness ; violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls salvation, and thy gates praise.
Page 75 - authority. But it shall not be so among you. But whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister ; and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be the servant of all.
Page 281 - that what he had done would prove music to him at midnight, and that the omission of it would have made discord in his conscience whenever he should pass by that place. ' For if,' said he, ' I am bound to pray for all who are in distress, I am surely bound, as
Page 179 - continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to African savages; a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now, when their
Page 119 - Woman, where are those thine accusers ? Hath no man condemned thee ? She said, No man, Lord. Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and sin no more.
Page 281 - occasion every day, yet let me tell you that I would not willingly pass one day of my life without comforting a sad soul, or showing mercy ; and I bless God for this opportunity. So now let us tune our instruments.'
Page 62 - WHITTIER. Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime, Sees not the spectre of his misspent time; And, through the shade Of funeral cypress, planted thick behind, Hears no reproachful whisper on the wind From his loved dead % Who bears no trace of passion's evil force ? Who shuns thy sting, O terrible Remorse
Page 100 - of change. Through the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day; Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Page 177 - With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of man's judgment.
Page 281 - so trim and clean, should come into that company so soiled and discomposed. But he told them the reason; and one of them said to him, ' He had disparaged himself by so mean an employment.