National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant |
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... Passion rules the hour , rules every hour , and Thought toils as its bond slave . The mind is chiefly studious to obtain means for gratifying the propensities . It seeks gain , frames plans THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL . 3.
... Passion rules the hour , rules every hour , and Thought toils as its bond slave . The mind is chiefly studious to obtain means for gratifying the propensities . It seeks gain , frames plans THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL . 3.
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... into a seeming support of sin , in its depths it has remained faithful to the truth . It has favored persecution , because it thought it was thus doing service both to God and its victim . It THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL . 9.
... into a seeming support of sin , in its depths it has remained faithful to the truth . It has favored persecution , because it thought it was thus doing service both to God and its victim . It THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL . 9.
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... thought , of speech , of act , and become the pos- session , body and soul , of another ? History shows the supreme vitality and energy of this feeling . All other passions and purposes of men are weak in comparison with this innermost ...
... thought , of speech , of act , and become the pos- session , body and soul , of another ? History shows the supreme vitality and energy of this feeling . All other passions and purposes of men are weak in comparison with this innermost ...
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... thought or joy , than that such memories should curse our future hours . But we have another duty forced upon us by the State , which compels us to defy the State . We are forbidden to harbor the fugitive , or to assist him in his ...
... thought or joy , than that such memories should curse our future hours . But we have another duty forced upon us by the State , which compels us to defy the State . We are forbidden to harbor the fugitive , or to assist him in his ...
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... thought , in the suggestions of this analo- gy , that we would limit the experience of our adorable Savior , in that hour of grief and pain extreme , to that of any follower of His , however exalted . It was not Christ as God , but as ...
... thought , in the suggestions of this analo- gy , that we would limit the experience of our adorable Savior , in that hour of grief and pain extreme , to that of any follower of His , however exalted . It was not Christ as God , but as ...
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Page 266 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 524 - Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Page 69 - But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Page 634 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 517 - And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast ; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Page 153 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 451 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 10 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 34 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 350 - I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.