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Page 91 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God...
Page 91 - They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Page 72 - I was born in sin, and in iniquity did my mother conceive me.' I am an apostate, guilty branch of an apostate guilty root, and my life has been a series of rebellions and transgressions, in which I have walked ' according to the course of this world ; according to the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Page 103 - As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.
Page 58 - The actual fact is that in this day opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by everyone where opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional; usually...
Page 31 - ... cottage to the widow who has lost her son ; it is nothing to give food and medicine to the workman who has broken his arm, or the decrepit woman wasting in sickness. But it is something to use your time and strength to war with the waywardness and thoughtlessness of mankind...
Page 3 - If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one of them and buy white hyacinths to feed my soul," the sentiment was expressed only for a woman's ear.
Page 85 - Church enjoys to-day may be traced back over some route to the words and deeds of men, who rebelled against the kind of law and the kind of order that they found administered by its 'constituted guardians; ' by men who dared to appeal from the ' keepers of divine truth ' to divine truth itself — from the 'trustees of God
Page 156 - LISTINE nourishment, yet in an hour they will visit two hundred in order to collect a treasure which they will never taste. Why all this toil and distress, and whence this mighty assurance that all is well? Is it so certain then that the new generation whereunto you offer your lives will merit the sacrifice ; will be more beautiful, happier, will do something you have not done because you have thus toiled ?