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... better illustration , perhaps . Look at these beautiful stained glass windows all the way round this church ; as we sit worshipping we can enjoy them . But suppose that in the audience is a man who is colour- blind ; to that man the ...
... better illustration , perhaps . Look at these beautiful stained glass windows all the way round this church ; as we sit worshipping we can enjoy them . But suppose that in the audience is a man who is colour- blind ; to that man the ...
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... better there had never been a Jesus ; it is worse than if there had been no Gospel to proclaim . When we claim that the Christ is able to save , we look beyond the immediate moment , back into human history , and we hear men say , “ He ...
... better there had never been a Jesus ; it is worse than if there had been no Gospel to proclaim . When we claim that the Christ is able to save , we look beyond the immediate moment , back into human history , and we hear men say , “ He ...
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... better when you return . Fathers and mothers , burdened for your children , life means many things to you ; it would be- come simple and glorious and beautiful if you left them sometimes that you might bear them on your hearts to God ...
... better when you return . Fathers and mothers , burdened for your children , life means many things to you ; it would be- come simple and glorious and beautiful if you left them sometimes that you might bear them on your hearts to God ...
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... better because he lives . There no true prayer without its answer . This may seem a great deal to say , but I would like every young man to remember that point , if he remembers no other . Louis XI . did not pray , but that man did who ...
... better because he lives . There no true prayer without its answer . This may seem a great deal to say , but I would like every young man to remember that point , if he remembers no other . Louis XI . did not pray , but that man did who ...
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... better the lot of humanity ; he died because his rescue work had killed him . Now we speak of him as a saint . Thousands followed him to the tomb ; on the day when he was laid to rest it was impossible almost for all those who wished to ...
... better the lot of humanity ; he died because his rescue work had killed him . Now we speak of him as a saint . Thousands followed him to the tomb ; on the day when he was laid to rest it was impossible almost for all those who wished to ...
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Page 106 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 247 - Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Page 233 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 62 - The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain : We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Page 63 - We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.
Page 213 - Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 159 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 247 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Page 22 - When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 53 - Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee ? ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.