The Potter's WheelHodder & Stoughton, 1897 - 174 страница |
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27 PATERNOSTER Row ADAM SMITH agony Auld Lang Syne beautiful better Bible blessed body BOOK OF ISAIAH calamity cast character child Christ Christian church circumstances comes creed Crown 8vo CURE OF SOULS death Divine Edition completing Eternal evil eyes face father feel friends Gethsemane give God's hand heart heaven helpless HODDER AND STOUGHTON Holy honour hope human Ian Maclaren illusion imagination Jesus labour lives LL.D look MARCUS DODS marriage mind misery mother mystery nature neighbours ness never once one's ordinary ourselves pain parents passion pathy Paul peace perfect person Pharisee pity Potter's Wheel preacher Rabbi Ben Ezra race religious RENDEL HARRIS righteous ROBERTSON NICOLL sacrifice saint selfishness shame sions sorrow soul spiritual suffering surely sympathy temptation tender things thought tions to-day touch trial of faith trust unseen veil victory weariness young
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Страница 60 - ... bloom of the year in the bag of one bee : All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem : In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, — wonder, wealth, and — how far above them — Truth, that's brighter than gem, Trust, that's purer than pearl, — Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe— all were for me In the kiss of one girl.
Страница 157 - And the more we put off the love of this present world and all things superfluous, beforehand, we shall have the less to do, when we lie down.
Страница 31 - Yet is it not an unconscious and cruel selfishness of love that would wish for that child a prolonged hospital life ? Is it not a merciful release when the prisoner escapes from the bondage of this body, and enters on the fulness of life, where there is no more pain ? There are worse evils than pain of body, from which death gives immunity ; and no one can look at the innocent face of a little child that has fallen on sleep without thanking God for victory before the battle. One at least of God's...
Страница 114 - ... it is not wonderful that one should be misunderstood by other people. The situation is not without its consolations: through all His life, from Nazareth to Calvary, Jesus was never understood except by Mary of Bethany and St. John. Perhaps it were better for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood and to take more care that we do not misunderstand other people. It ought to give us pause at a time to remember that each one has a stock of cut-and-dry judgments on 136 his neighbours,...
Страница 144 - ... of church. Just as they emerge from the church a runaway horse knocks down and tramples upon a young child. She is only a child of the city, nameless and not lovely, who has been in the park, and was trudging home with a few buttercups in her hand. Her misery and suffering are nothing compared with the vast spiritual deprivations of the world which the preacher has laboured. It does not matter : in such circumstances people do not criticise nor calculate. A little maid has been hurt, and her...
Страница 125 - If the teaching 149 of Jesus goes for anything, worldly success is no sign of divine approval, but is rather a very trying discipline; hardship is no evidence that God is disowning a man, but, maybe, the most convincing gift of His fatherly love. Joseph of Arimathea was no dearer to Christ than St. John, and although Nero lived in a palace and wore the purple, while St. Paul was chained to a soldier and imprisoned in the barracks, the Apostle had not been willing to change with the Emperor. When...
Страница 58 - ... tonic he would be to jaded minds ! Have those men and women no dreams, no visions, no passions, no commotions in their placid, self-contained, orderly lives ? So in our moods of weariness we fret and complain of our neighbours. Why are we not more understanding and sympathetic ? Have we had no experiences which we do not hand round for inspection, which we lock up in our hearts ? Perhaps our neighbour has his secrets too, and wears the thicker mask the more he dreads detection. Once he winced...