The Bible in the family: what is it, and what ought it to be?1859 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - The bark of the merchant cannot sail the sea without it ; no ship of war goes to the conflict but the Bible is there. It enters men's closets ; mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life. The affianced maiden prays God in Scripture for strength in her new duties ; men are married by Scripture. The Bible attends them in their sickness, when the fever of the world is on them. The aching head finds a softer pillow when the Bible lies underneath. The mariner, escaping from shipwreck, clutches...
Seite 50 - The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!
Seite 39 - It blesses us when we are born, gives names to half Christendom ; rejoices with us ; has sympathy for our mourning ; tempers our grief to finer issues. It is the better part of our sermons. It lifts man above himself ; our best of uttered prayers are in its storied speech, wherewith our fathers and the patriarchs prayed. The timid man, about...
Seite 50 - Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head : How His first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land : How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling...
Seite 41 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Seite 31 - As Thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Seite 17 - Thy book be my companion still ; My joy thy sayings to repeat, — Talk o'er the records of thy will, And search the oracles divine, Till every heartfelt word be mine.
Seite 43 - THE Bible ? That's the Book. The Book indeed, The Book of Books ; On which who looks, As he should do, aright, shall never need Wish for a better light To guide him in the night...
Seite 38 - Sabbath in all the ten thousand pulpits of our land. In all the temples of Christendom is its voice lifted up week by week. The sun never sets on its gleaming page. It goes equally to the cottage of the plain man and the palace of the king. It is woven into the literature of the scholar, and colors the talk of the street.