The Religion of Fear: Or, The Religion of JoyFortnightly club of the First Unitarian church, 1907 - 12 Seiten |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 7 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Seite 9 - And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy!
Seite 5 - Oh, think before thou die ! 2 Reflect — thou hast a soul to save : Thy sins — how high they mount ! What are thy hopes beyond the grave ? How stands that dread account? 3 Death enters — and there's no defence : His time, there's none can tell...
Seite 6 - Through sin forever die ? 2 While all my old companions dear, With whom I once did live, Joyful at God's right hand appear, A blessing to receive : — 3 Shall I, amidst a ghastly band, DraggM to the judgment-seat, Far on the left with horror stand, My fearful doom to meet...
Seite 5 - I am referring to, the first impression which children, almost without an exception, received of God, was that of a Being from whom they had less to hope, and more to fear, than from all the wicked men and demons in the universe.