Christian Educators in Council: Sixty Addresses by American Educators, with Historical Notes Upon the National Education Assembly, Held at Ocean Grove, N.J., August 9-12, 1883 ; Also, Illiteracy and Education Tables from Census of 1880Joseph Crane Hartzell |
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Page 61 - The rank is but the guinea's stamp— The man's the gowd for a' that, For a' that, and a' that. It's coming yet for a' that, ' When man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.
Page 229 - blest is he who can divine, Where real right doth lie ; And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blindfold eye. "Then learn to scorn the praise of men, And learn to lose with God ; For Jesus won the world through shame, And beckons thee his road.
Page 229 - 0 lose not heart, But learn what God is like ; And in the darkest battle-field Thou shalt know where to strike. " Thrice blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field, when he Is most invisible.
Page 226 - the liberties of a nation bo thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gifts of God? that they are not
Page 168 - tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the
Page 147 - Times and Seasons," (vol. iii, p. 709:) " We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. We believe that men will bo punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
Page 229 - I Whate'er I do, where'er I be, Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me. " He leadeth me, he leadeth me, By his own hand he leadeth me; His faithful follower I would be, For by his hand
Page 149 - Christ meant. ... I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have been a chance (in the last resurrection there will be) if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on the ground as a smoking incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil, until our
Page 154 - five successive years, and is not known to such person to be living, and is believed by such person to be dead ; nor to any person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a competent court, nor to any person by reason of any former
Page 229 - If our love were but more simple, We should take him at his word ; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord.