Reading for the railroad: being interesting and instructive selections from various Christian authors [signed J.L.]. |
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Page 86 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler!
Page 21 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Page 50 - No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort and peace, of my God ; in solitude my company, my friend, and comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Page 58 - Whose blood of matchless worth Should be the soul's defence ; For He who can for sin atone, Must have no failings of His own.
Page 71 - HOW fine has the day been ! How bright was the sun ! How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain : But now the fair...
Page 21 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their fulness?
Page 71 - Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page 57 - Seen with enlightened eyes, And once applied with power, Would teach the need of other blood, To reconcile an angry God.
Page 65 - I have carefully and regularly perused " these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, " that the volume, independently of its " divine origin, contains more sublimity, ..::.-. " purer •* purer morality, more important history, " and finer strains of eloquence, than can " be collected from all other books, in " whatever language they may have been
Page 95 - My friend, there are two considerations upon which my faith in Christ is built as upon a rock : the fall of man, the redemption of man, and the resurrection of man ; the three cardinal articles of our religion are such as human ingenuity could never have invented : therefore, they must be Divine.