Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive FriendsPennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891 - Quakers |
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Page 45
... interest to me , and yet I shrink greatly from talking about it . Worship represents a side of human nature without which it is permanently crip- pled . The ways that lead to the mountains of devotion are many , and happy is he who ...
... interest to me , and yet I shrink greatly from talking about it . Worship represents a side of human nature without which it is permanently crip- pled . The ways that lead to the mountains of devotion are many , and happy is he who ...
Page 53
... interest in the proceedings . Every year since , THOMAS P. GALVIN has been with us , always alert and interested in the topics under consideration , and always contributing liberally to the support of these meetings . He was filled with ...
... interest in the proceedings . Every year since , THOMAS P. GALVIN has been with us , always alert and interested in the topics under consideration , and always contributing liberally to the support of these meetings . He was filled with ...
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... interest of which the Al- mighty God once mutilated himself , but because cactus and man , prickly - pear and stupid boy , lonely woman and striving man , " All are parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body nature is , and God the soul ...
... interest of which the Al- mighty God once mutilated himself , but because cactus and man , prickly - pear and stupid boy , lonely woman and striving man , " All are parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body nature is , and God the soul ...
Page 10
... interest there was not the fair but to attend the women's meeting being held there . These meetings were for the con- sideration of the interests of women , and , notwithstanding the counter attractions of the fair , people flocked to ...
... interest there was not the fair but to attend the women's meeting being held there . These meetings were for the con- sideration of the interests of women , and , notwithstanding the counter attractions of the fair , people flocked to ...
Page 14
... testimony against the drink habit as a vice producing untold human misery , and the legalized traffic in intoxicants as a crime against every true interest of the state . We believe that intemperance in its widest sense covers a 14.
... testimony against the drink habit as a vice producing untold human misery , and the legalized traffic in intoxicants as a crime against every true interest of the state . We believe that intemperance in its widest sense covers a 14.
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Page 21 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 41 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 36 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Page 34 - As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 18 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 22 - Of the men o' the South? What whets the knife For the Union's life? — Hark to the answer: Slavery!
Page 41 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Page 36 - Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.
Page 43 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.