Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... happiness hereafter . They have come to the struggle , as we all know , in some respects , well prepared , and have too often met but raw and un- disciplined combatants . And yet what has been the result ? Have their learning and zeal ...
... happiness hereafter . They have come to the struggle , as we all know , in some respects , well prepared , and have too often met but raw and un- disciplined combatants . And yet what has been the result ? Have their learning and zeal ...
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... happiness , the facts just stated would fur- nish the most conclusive proof it . In like manner , it may be said that man is a religious being . He has reared his temples and altars in every land , and by sacrifice and prayer , has ...
... happiness , the facts just stated would fur- nish the most conclusive proof it . In like manner , it may be said that man is a religious being . He has reared his temples and altars in every land , and by sacrifice and prayer , has ...
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... happiness of others ; when we remember that their habitations were filled with cruelty , and their laws written in blood ; when we consider well their whole char- acter and history , we shall cease forever to won- der that this ...
... happiness of others ; when we remember that their habitations were filled with cruelty , and their laws written in blood ; when we consider well their whole char- acter and history , we shall cease forever to won- der that this ...
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... happiness . Our strongest and most illiberal opposers , have caught something of the spirit of charity recom- mended in the gospel . The various societies into which they are grouping themselves breathe more or less of the true spirit ...
... happiness . Our strongest and most illiberal opposers , have caught something of the spirit of charity recom- mended in the gospel . The various societies into which they are grouping themselves breathe more or less of the true spirit ...
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... happiness of his crea- tures . In his hymn " Blessed are they that mourn , " we see the genuine spirit of christian hope and trust . In the beautiful " Ode to the Past , " he speaks in the same strain but more clearly . Having glanced ...
... happiness of his crea- tures . In his hymn " Blessed are they that mourn , " we see the genuine spirit of christian hope and trust . In the beautiful " Ode to the Past , " he speaks in the same strain but more clearly . Having glanced ...
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Page 60 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 182 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 60 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 171 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 29 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 148 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 148 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 61 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back; each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign.
Page 108 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 208 - and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.