...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...bright; he does not fear to stand alone, to tread the way unknown and distant, to take the death-angel by the hand and bid farewell to wife, and babes, and...

...inscription of hope on the graves of the dead. " Our best of uttered prayer," writes Theodore Parker, " are in its storied speech wherewith our fathers and the patriarchs prayed. Men who believe nothing else that is spiritual believe the Bible all through." Generation after generation...

...half of Christendom, rejoices with us, has sympathy for our mourning, and tempers our grief to finer issues. It is the better part of our sermons. It lifts...wherewith our fathers and the patriarchs prayed." Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, formerly a Professor in Harvard University, declared, " Our Bible is still the...

...to half Christendom ; rejoices with us; has sympathy for onr mourning ; tempers our grief to finer issues. It is the better part of our sermons. It lifts...speech, wherewith our fathers and the patriarchs prayed. Men rest on this their dearest hopes. It tells them of God and of his blessed Sou; of earthly duties...