The Battle of Life, and Other Sermons |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abide answer Apocalyptic Literature archæologists arrested development Assyriology Balak become believe Bible Bishop of Ripon blessing Book of Acts character child Christ Christian church comes crust curse deeper disciples divine earnest earth eternal everything everywhere evil experience eyes faith Father feel fight forever give glory God's goes Gospel grow hands hear heart heaven Hebrew higher Holy hope human idea Jerusalem Jesus Jews knowledge light live look Lord man's Margolioth mean men's merely ministry missionary Mount of Olives mysterious nature ness never noble ourselves Palestine peace perfect possible pray prayer present Psalm religion rich Saviour seems Shechem shut slavery sometimes soul speak spiritual stand strength strong struggle suffering sure sympathy tell Testament Apocrypha things thought tion to-day true truth universal unto utter voice whole wisdom words
Popular passages
Page 132 - And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying : for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Page 129 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 23 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 178 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 109 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Page 109 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Page 164 - What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die ?' So when four years were wholly finished, She threw her royal robes away. 'Make me a cottage in the vale,' she said, 'Where I may mourn and pray. 'Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly, beautifully built: Perchance I may return with others there When I have purged my guilt.
Page 28 - He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 21 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature ; in darkness and light ; in heat and cold ; in the ebb and flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the systole and diastole of the heart...