Sermons, Volumen2D.G. Francis, 1874 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 37
Página 9
... evil spirits by his irre- sistible mirth . With the vast majority of men and women , amusement is a sheer necessity . Unde- veloped , uncultivated , unelastic , and unpliable , limited in thought , confined in sentiment , constrained in ...
... evil spirits by his irre- sistible mirth . With the vast majority of men and women , amusement is a sheer necessity . Unde- veloped , uncultivated , unelastic , and unpliable , limited in thought , confined in sentiment , constrained in ...
Página 11
... evil , in my judgment , is not that people work too hard , or too continually , but that they work too mon- otonously . They have nothing but toil , and toil of the same unvarying kind . It is all muscle , or all brain ; all eye , or ...
... evil , in my judgment , is not that people work too hard , or too continually , but that they work too mon- otonously . They have nothing but toil , and toil of the same unvarying kind . It is all muscle , or all brain ; all eye , or ...
Página 16
... evil temper , dispels rancor , exorcises fear , and puts the mind in sweet re- lation with the world of fortune and mankind . This is a high office , and one not easily discharged . 1 It is not pretended that any existing amusements ...
... evil temper , dispels rancor , exorcises fear , and puts the mind in sweet re- lation with the world of fortune and mankind . This is a high office , and one not easily discharged . 1 It is not pretended that any existing amusements ...
Página 9
... Every day of sccial life drops gently upon the surface of our minds images of people and things , moral sen- sations , thoughts , suggestions of good and evil , hints of beauty and deformity , lessons of charity or ill 9.
... Every day of sccial life drops gently upon the surface of our minds images of people and things , moral sen- sations , thoughts , suggestions of good and evil , hints of beauty and deformity , lessons of charity or ill 9.
Página 12
... Evil One ; to abstain from pursuits that would tend to divert them from their chief end , and to abhor pleasure , the fascinations whereof might endanger the singleness of their purpose or the purity of their feelings ; -- this is ...
... Evil One ; to abstain from pursuits that would tend to divert them from their chief end , and to abhor pleasure , the fascinations whereof might endanger the singleness of their purpose or the purity of their feelings ; -- this is ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
17 ASTOR PLACE amusement associated atheism authority bear-baiting beautiful become belief Bible called character Charles Sumner Christ Christendom Christian church Church of Rome conduct conscience conviction creed D. G. FRANCIS death devout divine doctrine duty earnest earth entertain evil existence fact faith feeling FORTY-FIRST AND FORTY-SECOND give happiness heart heaven Hebrew holy Holy Spirit hope human idea immortality individual intel intelligence interest Jesus kind law of habit less ligion live LYRIC HALL mankind means ment mind moral nature ness never noble O. B. FROTHINGHAM Old Testament passion poor practice prayer PREACHED IN LYRIC preacher principle Puritans qualities reason reform regard religion religious resurrection revival Romanist saint saintliness sense sentiment SERMON BY O. B. simply SIXTH AVENUE social society soul spirit of truth supreme sympathy Theodore Parker things thought tion uncon vidual virtue women word
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides. Each part may call the farthest brother, For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides.
Página 3 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 19 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered
Página 8 - And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes.
Página 15 - For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: 3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air...
Página 7 - Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day.
Página 10 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Página 10 - Oh, then we awoke with sudden start From our deep dream, and knew too late, How bare the rock, how desolate, Which had received our precious freight: Yet we called out — "Depart! Our gifts, once given, must here abide? Our work is done; we have no heart To mar our work,
Página 19 - I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life : Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son.
Página 17 - A person whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture — is said to have a character.