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This exclusive regard to knowledge was his one-sidedness as a moral theorist; but he did not consistently exclude all reference to the voluntary control of appetite and passion. IV. He inculcated Practical Precepts of a self-denying kind, intended to curb the excesses of human desire and ambition.
Emma had spoken words to which something within bore witness as truth, and she knew not what to say. Emma, too, lay musing for some time; and then raising her head, and resting it upon her hand, she said: "How wonderfully self-denying Jesus was, Miss Sliver.
"Well, my dear boy, my second example embraces many excellent men, all devoted to the same self-denying and self-sacrificing work, I am now alluding to the Moravian missionaries.
I met Salvation Army officers occasionally, who were both intelligent, self-denying, and hard-working; and I suppose that with them belief must have been at least as powerful a motive as devotion to their Army, their General, and the work of reclamation among the very poor. Also, there were High Church clergymen, who toiled unceasingly among the poor.
All the self-sacrifice of the holiest men for sixty generations, all the wars that have been waged for the sake of Christ and His truth, all the money spent upon churches, clergy, monasteries and religious education, all the blood of martyrs, all the celibacy of priests and nuns, all the self-denying lives of those who are now ministers of the Gospel according to the Rationalist, no part of all this devotion to the cause of Christ has had any justifiable base on actual fact.
The elevation of the race! What had the land question to do with the salvation of man? Suppose everybody on the East Side should become as industrious, as self-denying, as unselfish as Ruth Leigh, and yet without belief, without hope! He had accepted the humanitarian situation with her, and never had spoken to her of the eternal life. What unfaithfulness to his mission and to her!
The fox and cock the least because they have only one brush and comb between them. Why are bakers the most self-denying people? Which of the constellations reminds you of an empty fireplace? What relation is that child to its own father who is not its own father's son? His daughter. When does a pig become landed property? When he is turned into a meadow.
He gazed on the bundle of Conanchet, as if his eye had never before looked on a similar object, and keenly contending passions were playing about a brow that was seldom as tranquil as suited the self-denying habits of the times and country. "It shall be done, Narragansett!" he said, speaking between his clenched teeth; "it shall be done!"
My earnest desire is, that those who really have the best interests of the heathen at heart should go to them; and assuredly, in Africa at least, self-denying labors among real heathen will not fail to be appreciated. Christians have never yet dealt fairly by the heathen and been disappointed. When Sechele understood that we could no longer remain with him at Kolobeng, he sent his children to Mr.
This will infallibly lead to such self-denying work as visiting the poor, nursing the sick, giving of your time and money to the needy, and the like. "If the thought of such self-denial is repugnant to you, remember that it is enough for the disciple to be as his Lord.
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