The soul of honour. By Hesba Stretton1908 |
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Page 133 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 184 - ART thou weary, art thou languid, Art thou sore distrest ? "Come to Me" — saith One — "and coming, Be at rest!" 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 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 135 - BLOW ye the trumpet, — blow ! — The gladly solemn sound ; — ' Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, — The year of jubilee is come ; Return, ye ransomed sinners ! home.
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 hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred...
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 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.
Page 144 - ... his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.