The Claims of the History and Literature of the Society of Friends Upon Its Members of the Present Day: An Essay Read Before the New York "Friends' Sociable," Third Mo., 23rd, 1868W. Wood & Company, 1868 - 14 pages |
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61 WALKER STREET allegiance alluded amongst annals Apostolic armor attractive Barclay Beauty bers better bind Burrough candle Castle Chris Christian church conquest crown dead Divine dungeons earthly ecclesiastical EDWARD BROWN eloquent Elwood Encyclopædias Epistles ESSAY READ essential principles eternal fidelity fitly folios forever Future gathering George Fox glance gloom glorious God's gold HARVARD hath heart Heaven heavenly HISTORY AND LITERATURE Howgill immortal incapable intellect Keats King Lamb liberty LIBRARY light live Lord Loyalty Milton mist moral names never turned Newgate nobility noble ourselves Parnell Penn and Penington persecution portable portraits precious PRESENT DAY prison progeny progress promote prophetic purity Quakerism Quarterly relic religious literature reprinting Righteousness says Scripture sermons Sewell SOCIABLE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS spire Spurgeon sublimely thee theme THIRD MO thou hast Thy spirit thy sword tory Truth unchanging valiant veteran vision William Penn winter wisdom YORK FRIENDS
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Page 6 - ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Page 3 - ... nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth...
Page 13 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.
Page 6 - But there is yet a liberty, unsung By poets, and by senators unpraised, Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers Of earth and hell confederate take away : A liberty, which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons have no power to bind; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more.
Page 6 - Of earth and hell confederate take away : A liberty, which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons have no power to bind; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more. 'Tis liberty of heart derived from Heaven, Bought with His blood, who gave it to mankind, And seal'd with the same token.
Page 3 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 11 - And it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when the farmers who allow thistles, ragweed, and the like, to seed on their fields, without having attempted to prevent them, will be subjected to a penalty •f.
Page 8 - His name is chronicled in the Lamb's book of life, a righteous spirit, pure, chaste and clean. Who can tax him with oppressing them, or burdening them, or being chargeable to them, who through suffering hath finished his course and testimony ; who is now crowned with the crown of life, and reigns with the Lord Christ for ever and ever.
Page 7 - ... for thou hast turned many to righteousness, and shall shine as a star of God in the firmament of God's power, for ever and ever ; and they that are in that, shall see thee there, and enjoy thee there, though thou be gone away hence, and can no more be seen in mutability ; yet thy life and thy spirit shall run parallel with immortality. Oh Edward Burrough ! I cannot but mourn for thee, yet not as one without...
Page 7 - O yes ! The children that are yet unborn, shall have thee in their mouths, and thy works shall testify of thee in generations, who yet have not a being, and shall count thee blessed. Did thy life go, out as the snuff of a candle ? O nay. Thou hast penetrated the hearts of many, and the memorial of the...