Little Classics, Band 18Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1880 |
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Seite 226 - place ; his pavilions round about Him were dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." And again, " Thy mercy, 0 Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." And again, " His excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Seite 226 - The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven." Again, " Clouds and darkness are round about Him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of
Seite 227 - the heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory." In all these passages the meaning is unmistakable, if they possess definite meaning at all. We are too apt to take them
Seite 230 - This, I believe, is the ordinance of the firmament; and it seems to me that in the midst of the material nearness of these heavens God means us to acknowledge his own immediate presence as visiting, judging, and blessing us. " The earth shook, the heavens also dropped, at the presence of God." " He doth set his bow in the cloud,
Seite 226 - Thy mercy, 0 Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." And again, " His excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Seite 14 - watering-place at this season among the deer; and the doe may have remembered, not without uneasiness, the moonlight meetings of a frivolous society there. But the buck did not come; he was very likely sleeping under one of the ledges on Tight Nippin. Was he alone? " I charge you, by the roes and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not nor awake my love,
Seite 229 - us into his glory, — we hoping that by standing on a grain of dust or two of human knowledge higher than our fellows we may behold the Creator as He rises, — God takes us at our word ; He rises into his own invisible and inconceivable majesty; He goes forth
Seite 125 - and pale-green reeds stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around; while high overhead hung, motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard
Seite 226 - and easy meaning to the words " expansion in the midst of the waters." And if, having once seized this idea, he proceeded to examine it more accurately, he would perceive at once, if he had ever noticed anything of the nature of clouds, that the level line of
Seite 229 - can be universal, and therefore the only one which for us can be true. The moment that, in our pride of heart, we refuse to accept the condescension of the Almighty, and desire Him, instead of stooping to hold our hands, to rise up