"The Land We Love": William Ewart Gladstone, a Non-political TributeCharles Bullock "Home Words" Publishing Office, 1898 - 138 pages |
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AGNES GIBERNE Almighty Archbishop asked authority believe Bible Bishop bless the Land Bournemouth Brancker CHARLES BULLOCK Christ Christian Church claim cleft cloth gilt Dean death devotion Divine Duke England's Royal Home faith father Glad Gladstone wrote Gladstone's Gospel hand Hawarden Castle heart Holy Scripture Home Words House of Commons hymn Impregnable Rock interest labour Land we love letter Liverpool living London Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury mind morning nations never Office once Parliament Paternoster Square peace political Pope prayer preaching Psalms Queen Queen's Resolve religion religious remarkable reply rest Rock of Ages Rock of Holy Rome Salisbury Sir John Gladstone Sir John Kennaway sorrow soul speak spirit statesman stone story Sunday sympathy tell testimony Thee thing thou told touching truth voice W. E. GLADSTONE W. T. Stead Westminster WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
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Page 4 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee...
Page 72 - ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the LORD, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 127 - Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth: see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, and to destroy and to overthrow; to build, and to plant.
Page 64 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark: And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 4 - Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy Cross I cling ; Naked, come to Thee for dress ; Helpless, look to Thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 103 - Where shall we lay the man whom we deplore ? Here, in streaming London's central roar. Let the sound of those he wrought for, And the feet of those he fought for, Echo round his bones for evermore.
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Page 129 - The prompters are unknown; the consultees are unknown; the procedure is unknown. Not that there are not officers, and rules; but the officers may at will be overridden or superseded; and the rules at will, and without notice, altered pro re natd and annulled. To secure rights has been, and is, the aim of the Christian civilisation: to destroy them, and to establish the resistless, domineering action of a purely central power, is the aim of the Roman policy.
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