Dedication of the Adin Ballou Memorial: Including the Unveiling of the Statue, a Historical Statement with Formal Presentation and Response, Commemorative Addresses and Accompanying Exercises, at Hopedale, Massachusetts, October 27, 1900

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Printed at the Riverside Press, 1901 - 77 páginas
 

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Página 68 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 43 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, P Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain...
Página 43 - 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.
Página 66 - Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Página 49 - God who receives such devotion, to the exclusion of natural demand and spiritual anxieties, why does not this tailor ' let his light so shine before men that they may see his good works, and glorify his Father which is in heaven?
Página 58 - Ere mature manhood marked his youthful brow He sought our altar and he made his vow — Upon the tesselated floor he trod, Bended his knees and placed his trust in God ! Through all his great and glorious life he stood A true, warm Brother, foremost e'er in g od. His ready word a testimony bore, Ennobling e'er th« apron that he wore ; And when he died, amid a nation's gloom, His mourning Brethren bore him to the tomb...
Página 17 - What has drawn us thus apart, From the common daily round, Bringing here a lowly heart, Standing as on holy ground? Not the scorn of humble things, — Simplest tasks that love can find ; Not the pride of thought that brings Laggard will and restless mind. Nay ; but here upon the height, Rapt from idle cares away, Fain our souls would see a light, Herald of the coming day : Morning visions high and pure, Glorious things that are to be, Faith and...
Página 66 - He will judge among the nations, and rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Página 68 - Morgan; for your work lasts, and your wealth stays, being in coin that passes current in two worlds, "that which now is and that which is to come.

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