Tales and AllegoriesSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge; sold at the depositories, 1867 - 88 páginas |
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Página 65 - Wherever in the world I am, In whatsoe'er estate, I have a fellowship with hearts, To keep and cultivate ; And a work of lowly love to do For the Lord on whom I wait.
Página 4 - We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.
Página 65 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro ; Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know : I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Página 34 - My God ! I know not when I die, What is the moment, or the hour, How soon the clay may broken lie, How quickly pass away the flower ; Then may thy child prepared be Through time to meet eternity.
Página 5 - Tis first the good and then the beautiful, Not first the beautiful and then the good ; First the rough seed, sown in the rougher soil, Then the flower-blossom, or the branching wood.
Página 22 - ... vent his rage against the very Author of all things ! Thus he becomes like some cruel animal, the fiercest of wild beasts, the most ravenous of she-wolves, the most savage of lionesses. This is the most loathsome leprosy of soul, on account of which he ought to wash himself in the Jordan, and follow the example of Him Who came not to do His Own Will. Whence also, during His Passion, He exclaimed, — "Not my will, but Thine, be done.
Página 65 - THOU cam'st not to thy place by accident, It is the very place God meant for thee ; And shouldst thou there small scope for action see, Do not for this give room to discontent ; Nor let the time thou owest...
Página 50 - Take my heart, for I cannot give it Thee ; keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee.
Página 27 - Entreat thy Lord, that nought may be A shadow between Heaven and thee 1 " Rays of Sunlight for Dark Days.
Página 48 - Approaching him kindly, the Old Man laid his hand upon the head of the boy, and said : " Child, look at me ! and see how Death appears to those prepared to meet him.