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"They have given me the First Bursary, father," said Robin. No one spoke, but Robin saw tears running down his mother's face. John Fordyce deliberately turned back several pages of the Bible. "We will sing," he said in a clear voice, "in the Twenty-third Psalm the whole of it! 'The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want "
By the side of Amelia's bed stood a little table, on which were so many big bottles of medicine, that Amelia smiled to think of all the stock must have had to swallow during the month past. There was an open Bible on it too, in which Amelia's mother was reading, whilst tears trickled slowly down her pale cheeks.
We lack a definite neighborhood in which to locate the lives that pass from our sight. Religious authority is based, today, upon experience, and obviously experience can give no certain knowledge of things future. We are disposed to treat all pictures of the life to come, whether in the Bible or out of it, as the projections of men's hopes. They are such stuff as dreams are made on.
The Rev. T. Rhondda Williams, in Shall We Understand the Bible? shows very clearly the gradual evolution of the idea of God amongst the Jews from a lower to a higher conception. Having dealt with the lower conception, let us now consider the higher. The highest conception of God is supposed to be the Christian conception of God as a Heavenly Father.
Ieremia looked gravely over the rims of his glasses when his employer entered, gravely marked the place in the Bible and set it aside, and gravely shook hands. "I am glad you came in person," he said. "How else could I come?" Grief laughed. But Ieremia had no sense of humour, and he ignored the remark.
Science, and all these new discoveries.... I say the Ten Commandments were made for man, and not man for the Commandments; and there ain't a word against divorce in 'em, anyhow! That's what I tell my poor old mother, who builds everything on her Bible.
To Nigel's surprise, and, he afterwards confessed, to his comfort and satisfaction, the hermit called the negro from his work, and, taking down the large Bible from its shelf, read part of the 46th Psalm, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea."
I don't see what use religion or the Bible would be to us if these things weren't laid down for us clear and sharp; if p'raps they was true, and p'raps not; or true for me, but not true for my neighbour; or half true, and half false; or true for to-day, and not true for to- morrow." "Bravo!" said Dr Prosser, delighted, and clapping his hands.
He wandered far, but he always knew it; and, though he could hardly find terms to express his contempt for the Church, there is no line of Byron's writing which is a slur at the Bible. On the other hand, much of his work reveals a passion for the beauty of it as well as its truth. His most melodious writing is in that group of Hebrew melodies which were written to be sung.
You need not TURN me out. And I need not change my religious opinions. I will GO out. But " He wheeled round to the rough pulpit on which lay the copy of the Bible that they had brought with them from Virginia, their Ark of the Covenant on the way, seized it, and faced them again.
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