Ten Degrees BackwardGeorge H. Doran Company, 1915 - 338 pages |
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Page 182 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 203 - Then the dream took a more serious turn, and led along sombre cloisters veiled with creepers. But it could not keep serious for long ; it soon floated back into the sunlight, and dipped into a sunk garden paved with coral and amethyst, as only pink and purple flowers were allowed to grow therein. Then it changed into a rosery where it was always the time of roses, and where roses red and roses white, roses pink and roses yellow, ran riot in well-ordered confusion. Then the dream took quite another...
Page 299 - The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the " night, in which the heavens shall pass away with " a great noise, and the elements shall melt with " fervent heat ; the earth also, and all the works " which are therein shall be burned up."2 Yea, " heaven and earth shall flee away, and there shall
Page 335 - Christian soul could help you more than this could ; reminding you by its direct and simple realizations of those little ones, whose angels do always behold the face of our Father which is in heaven.
Page 204 - ... plate. But he soon came back to England again, and found himself in an ideal fruit garden, where the pear trees and the apple trees were woven into walls and arches and architraves of green and gold. Then a wrought-iron gateway led him still nearer to the heart of England, for there lay a cricket-field surrounded by large trees ; and beyond that again stretched the grassy alleys and shady paths of dreamland till they culminated in the very centre of the...
Page 204 - ... herbaceous border so glorious in its riot of colour that the dreamer's heart leaped up, like Wordsworth's, CHAPTER to behold a rainbow ; but this time not a rainbow in the XVI. sky( but on the ground. The house belonging to this wonderful garden was more or less to match. It had begun life quite as a small house, but the magic of the garden had lured it on to venture farther and farther into the enchanted ground, until finally it grew into a very large house indeed. And one could not really blame...
Page 207 - I made up my mind that when I grew up I would do it; and when I had a good chance, when some of her grand company was around, I fixed her.
Page 38 - ... behaviour. I'll kick you with these two legs of mine till you learn better manners, you five-broken-ribbed fool ! Here, take this jar of water and bundle of rice, and be off with you to the jungle, and mind what you are about, for, if you return again without some game worth eating, I'll abuse you till you don't know whether you are standing on your head or your heels.
Page 279 - Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." HEBREWS 5:8 We are told that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering, therefore we who are sinful, and who are far from being perfect, must not wonder if we are called to pass through suffering too. Shall the head be crowned with thorns, and shall the other members of the body be rocked upon the dainty kp of ease?