The Open Door: Sermons and PrayersPress of Wm. B. Burford, 1892 - 438 páginas |
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Página vii
... experience at this time he reached the conclusion that a knowledge of , and taste for , the best literature are possible to any one who has a strong desire in that direction . In early manhood he went to Chicago and entered the service ...
... experience at this time he reached the conclusion that a knowledge of , and taste for , the best literature are possible to any one who has a strong desire in that direction . In early manhood he went to Chicago and entered the service ...
Página viii
... experience . During all this portion of his life his heart and mind were running in deep spiritual grooves . While staging in the far west or riding by rail , or while waiting for trains , his mind was at work on the deep things of soul ...
... experience . During all this portion of his life his heart and mind were running in deep spiritual grooves . While staging in the far west or riding by rail , or while waiting for trains , his mind was at work on the deep things of soul ...
Página xvii
... No statistics can gather its influence , nor tabulate the results of it . Here is an attempt to bring the abun- dant life of Christ into all human experiences , and shed the light of his gospel everywhere upon the com- MEMOIR . xvii.
... No statistics can gather its influence , nor tabulate the results of it . Here is an attempt to bring the abun- dant life of Christ into all human experiences , and shed the light of his gospel everywhere upon the com- MEMOIR . xvii.
Página 20
... experience of to - day will throw its light back upon the words of yesterday , and that which he knows not now ... experiences of to - day . Some imperious word says to us , Go forth . We go , as Abraham went , not knowing whither we go ...
... experience of to - day will throw its light back upon the words of yesterday , and that which he knows not now ... experiences of to - day . Some imperious word says to us , Go forth . We go , as Abraham went , not knowing whither we go ...
Página 21
... experience into that experi- ence by sealed orders . There is no time schedule for a human soul . You can not tell when it will arrive at any place and at any experience . You can not tell any- thing that awaits you . Life is a mystery ...
... experience into that experi- ence by sealed orders . There is no time schedule for a human soul . You can not tell when it will arrive at any place and at any experience . You can not tell any- thing that awaits you . Life is a mystery ...
Términos y frases comunes
Absalom beautiful beautiful souls become bless bring Christian church comes comfort common dark dark tower death despised and rejected duty earth Edom evil face faculty faith Father feel flower friends gate give God's hand happiness hear heart heaven hope human soul idea intellect Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth justice kingdom Kingdom of God kingdom of heaven lack landscape art lift light little child little children live look lost Mary Mapes Dodge means ment mind mystery nature nature of things never pain peace perfect perfect law pity poverty presence religion scarcer than dollars sense silent simply social sorrow spirit strength strong sympathy tell thee Theodore Parker things Thomas Lucy thought thousand tion to-day true truth trying voice walk wealth whole woman women word wrong young
Pasajes populares
Página 423 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Página 419 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me, on. I loved to choose and see my path ; but now Lead Thou me on ! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will : remember not past years.
Página 423 - Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove...
Página 346 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.
Página 425 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 420 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Página 275 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Página 424 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out — to some one of his race : So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Página 425 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all.
Página 421 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.