The soul of honour. By Hesba Stretton

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Page 184 - Hath he marks to lead me to him, If he be my guide? " In his feet and hands are wound-prints, And his side.
Page 185 - If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay ? ' Not till earth, and not till heaven, Pass away !' Finding, following, keeping, struggling, Is He sure to bless ? 'Saints, Apostles, Prophets, Martyrs, Answer, Yes !
Page 133 - As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel : Since God is marching on." He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on.
Page 133 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.
Page 242 - Then was the truth received into my heart, That, under heaviest sorrow earth can bring, If from the affliction somewhere do not grow Honour which could not else have been, a faith. An elevation and a sanctity, If new strength be not given nor old restored, The blame is ours, not Nature's. When a taunt Was taken up by scoffers in their pride, Saying, " Behold the harvest that we reap From popular government and equality...
Page 185 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide ? " In His Feet and Hands are Woundprints, And His Side.
Page 133 - His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Page 133 - I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: " As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;" Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel, — Since God is marching on!
Page 240 - None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 157 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.

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