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'Draw through all failure to the perfect flower; Draw through all darkness to the perfect light. Yea, let the rapture of Thy spring-tide thrill Through me, beyond me, till its ardour fill The ungrowing souls that know not Thee aright, That Thy great love may make of me, e'en me, One added link to bind the world to Thee. E. S. A.
All the time I'm growing up she's ungrowing down! She's smallering and I'm biggering." "Are you afraid your mother'll be too small, sweet Pete?" asked Mrs. Carey. "No!" this very stoutly. "Danny Harmon's mother's more'n up to the mantelpiece and I'd hate to have my mother so far away!" said Peter as he embraced Mrs. Carey's knees.
Now notice that, broad as this precept is, and all-inclusive of every kind of excellence and duty as it may be, the Apostle has a very definite and specific meaning in it. There is one feature, and only one, in which, accurately speaking, a man may be like God. Our limited knowledge can never be like the ungrowing perfect wisdom of God.
"'I have heard, said I, 'that you are good at growing and ungrowing organs? "'That's not enough for me. Every organ tells me the same story. I want to hear different stories. "'Is it true, what men say, that your wisdom flows and ebbs in pulses? "'Quite true, replied Slofork. 'But those you had it from did not add that they have always mistaken the flow for the ebb.
France, Spain, and Austria, Bourbons and Hapsburgs, the great pillars of the Church, were ranged against England and Prussia, the half-conscious representatives of those industrial and individualist principles which replaced, whether for a time or permanently, the decaying system of aristocratic caste in temporal things, and an ungrowing Catholicism in things spiritual.
Boston is fast becoming of the size of Paris, but if I have not misread her future she will be careful not to pass it, and become as New York is." We were so alarmed by this reasoning that we asked in considerable dismay: "But what shall we do? We could not help growing; perhaps we wished to overgrow; but is there no such thing as ungrowing?
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