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Page 229 - ... Almighty and most merciful Father; we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us.
Page 10 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 171 - This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing ; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting, Thy victory, O Grave...
Page 173 - God who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Page 159 - To whom much is given, of him shall much be required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 23 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring ; men's hearts failing them for fear, and looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 217 - If once men were enabled to turn and see themselves as they really are, comrades and fellow soldiers in a struggle to which the greatest wars of history are but the bickerings of children, if they could realize how fatally they are even now wasting their opportunity, and how near their criminal blindness has brought them to the brink of ruin, they would turn with such earnestness and unanimity to the task of their own salvation that the details would soon become clear. It is, in the deepest sense...
Page 136 - It is safe to say that not one in a thousand readers of "Such Is Life" notices that the three stories form one story.
Page 221 - ... it was good for our fathers and it's good enough for me...