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ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH beautiful Behold believe blessed brethren Christian CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Church cloud comes cross darkness dead death deep divine duty earth Edom EDWARD DOWDEN EMMA LAZARUS eternal everlasting eyes F. W. H. MYERS faith Father fear feel fellow-men flesh forever give glory God's grace grow hand hast hath hear heart heaven holy hope human Incarnation INFLUENCE JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Jesus Christ JOHN HENRY Newman knowledge lift light live look Lord man's MATTHEW ARNOLD mysterious nature ness never o'er obedience pain peace perfect PHILLIPS BROOKS praise pray prayer rich RICHARD WATSON GILDER righteousness saints salvation Saviour seems shines sight silent sorrow soul spirit stand strength strong struggle suffering sure Thee Thine things THOMAS A KEMPIS Thou art thought tion to-day true truth unto utterance voice whole wisdom words
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Page 178 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 360 - How silently, how silently, The wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
Page 113 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 145 - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above Is comfort, life, and fire of love.
Page 114 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 36 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 43 - But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us - to know Whence our lives come and where they go.
Page 261 - No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil...
Page 122 - Through wood and stream and field and hill and Ocean, A quickening life from the Earth's heart has burst, As it has ever done, with change and motion, From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos...
Page 188 - Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came.