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Page 100 - Christian laws, hut faithfully follows the old ceremonial law. But we have a law more perfect than that of Moses ; a Lawgiver whose commandments fell from lips of gentleness and love. Nothing fearful attended the delivery of his precepts. His compassion, his tenderness and love, won the heart and secured obedience. Very truly, my young friends, " We are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet...
Page 130 - IV •Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
Page 77 - Earth has no voice to make the secret known. Who seeks the vanished bird, By the forsaken nest and broken shell ? Far thence, he sings unheard, Yet free and joyous midst the woods to dwell.
Page 146 - Besides, the man's poor, his orchard's his bread; Then think of his children, for they must be fed." " You speak very fine, and you look very grave, But apples we want, and apples we'll have; If you will go with us, you shall have a share, If not, you shall have neither apple nor pear.
Page 61 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Page 85 - It was accomplished by the Roman general, Titus, commissioned by his father, the emperor Vespasian. And never was ruin more complete. The glorious temple went down in flame. Every dwelling was the abode of famine — every family of faction — every street ran with blood. Christ had prophesied of this very event : " For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Page 88 - From the centre of the neighbouring elevations he would see a wild, rugged, mountainous desert — no herds depasturing on the summit, no forests clothing the acclivities, no water flowing through the valleys ; but one rude scene of savage, melancholy waste, in the midst of which the ancient glory of Judea bows her head in widowed desolation.
Page 80 - I have been there, and still would go ; 'Tis like a little heaven below ; Not all my pleasures and my play Shall tempt me to forget this day.
Page 146 - His scruples thus silenced, Tom felt more at ease, And went with his comrades the apples to seize ; He flamed and protested, but joined in the plan ; He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man!
Page 98 - The Lord said to him : Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever.