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... come when , as in the Middle Ages , all pious books shall be called Scripturæ Sacra - Sacred Scriptures . " - T . W. HIGGINSON . COMPILED AND EDITED BY G. B. STEBBINS . DETROIT , MICHIGAN ; PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR . 1872 . Entered ...
... come when , as in the Middle Ages , all pious books shall be called Scripturæ Sacra - Sacred Scriptures . " - T . W. HIGGINSON . COMPILED AND EDITED BY G. B. STEBBINS . DETROIT , MICHIGAN ; PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR . 1872 . Entered ...
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... come , for us and for those who may live after us ; since truth and inspiration are the heritage of human- ity , correlated , evolved , and developed into higher harmony and perfectness by spiritual laws , which are the Divine Intent ...
... come , for us and for those who may live after us ; since truth and inspiration are the heritage of human- ity , correlated , evolved , and developed into higher harmony and perfectness by spiritual laws , which are the Divine Intent ...
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... come , at our praise , to him who worships thee and longs for thy help . 7. For thou , O sage , goest wisely between these two crea- tions ( heavens and earth , gods and men ) , like a friendly mes- senger between two hamlets . 8. Thou ...
... come , at our praise , to him who worships thee and longs for thy help . 7. For thou , O sage , goest wisely between these two crea- tions ( heavens and earth , gods and men ) , like a friendly mes- senger between two hamlets . 8. Thou ...
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Giles Badger Stebbins. Pondering , this bond between created things And uncreated . Comes this spark from earth , Piercing and all - pervading , or from heaven ? Then seeds were sown , and mighty power arose— Nature below , and Power and ...
Giles Badger Stebbins. Pondering , this bond between created things And uncreated . Comes this spark from earth , Piercing and all - pervading , or from heaven ? Then seeds were sown , and mighty power arose— Nature below , and Power and ...
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... Come close to us , O Indra , bringing with thee aids result . ing from sacrifices to the spirits of the departed . Come , O most felicitous divinity , with those happy beings to whom we , in a special manner , offer oblations . Come , O ...
... Come close to us , O Indra , bringing with thee aids result . ing from sacrifices to the spirits of the departed . Come , O most felicitous divinity , with those happy beings to whom we , in a special manner , offer oblations . Come , O ...
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Agni Atheism beauty believe Bible bless body Brahm Brahmana Brahminism Buddha Buddhist called charity child Christ Christian church Confucius conscience creatures creed death deeds divine doctrine duty earth Epictetus eternal evil existence eyes faith Father fear feeling Free Religion give glory God's gods happiness harmony hath heart heaven highest holy honor human idea immortal Indra infinite inspiration intelligence Jesus justice Keshub Chunder Sen kingdom of heaven knowledge labor light live Lord man's mankind Master means mercy mind Mithra moral nature ness never Nirvana noble Ormuzd peace perfect piety praise prayer principles pure purity race reason religious revealed reverence Rig Veda sacred sacrifice sect seek sense soul speak spirit suffer superstition supreme Talmud teach thee theology things thought tion true truth universal unto Varuna Vedas virtue wisdom wise woman words worship Zoroaster
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Page 161 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 78 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 79 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 125 - ... But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Page 79 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day; and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 159 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 161 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 162 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 125 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 124 - AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain : and •when he was set, his disciples came unto him. 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.