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... be the house of a guest that could dwell in none beside . It is to stand erect , as becomes the ruler over all other earthly creatures ; the eye can look to heaven ; the mouth is made for speech , the hands for works 10 THE LAST ENEMY .
... be the house of a guest that could dwell in none beside . It is to stand erect , as becomes the ruler over all other earthly creatures ; the eye can look to heaven ; the mouth is made for speech , the hands for works 10 THE LAST ENEMY .
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... become a living soul , the chief of the animal creation . In most languages , the name of the soul is derived from a ... becomes itself a spirit . Body , and soul , and spirit form indeed a threefold division of our nature , which has ...
... become a living soul , the chief of the animal creation . In most languages , the name of the soul is derived from a ... becomes itself a spirit . Body , and soul , and spirit form indeed a threefold division of our nature , which has ...
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... become weary , and lie down , and rise no more . At threescore and ten a band of some four hundred yet struggles on . At ninety , these have been reduced to a handful of thirty trembling patriarchs . Year after year , they fall in di ...
... become weary , and lie down , and rise no more . At threescore and ten a band of some four hundred yet struggles on . At ninety , these have been reduced to a handful of thirty trembling patriarchs . Year after year , they fall in di ...
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... become murder . It is horrible enough that our age should have invented the Bowie knife and the revoly- ing pistol . It is more horrible that in the streets , in houses , even in the seats of law and justice , they have been drawn and ...
... become murder . It is horrible enough that our age should have invented the Bowie knife and the revoly- ing pistol . It is more horrible that in the streets , in houses , even in the seats of law and justice , they have been drawn and ...
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... become so weary of his present state , and so hopeless for the future , that he prefers the uncer- tainties , or imagines that he prefers the certainties of death , the temptation to suicide may be at hand , unless repelled by higher ...
... become so weary of his present state , and so hopeless for the future , that he prefers the uncer- tainties , or imagines that he prefers the certainties of death , the temptation to suicide may be at hand , unless repelled by higher ...
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Page 239 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 287 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 55 - The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 216 - He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 92 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body; And, with a sudden vigour., it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 25 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 295 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 222 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 222 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Page 199 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis...