Good Cheer for a Year; Selections
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ISBN13: 9781150260513
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Excerpt: ... Heroes are the mortal pipes Thorough which God's breath doth blow; Little care they how they strain If aright the tune doth go. j. 1.. M. W. IDEALITY, magnanimity, and bravery, -- these are what make the heroes. These are what glorify certain lives that stand through history as the lights and beacons of mankind. The materialist, the sceptic, and the coward, he cannot be a hero. We talk sometimes about the unheroic character of modern life. We point to our luxurious living for the reason. But, oh, my friends, it is not in your costly houses and your sumptuous tables that your unheroic lives consist. It is in the absence of great inspiring ideas, of generous enthusiasms, and of the courage of self-forgetfulness. . . . Do not blame a mere accident for that which lies so much deeper. There are moments, when you bear your sorrows, when you resist a great temptation, when your faith or your country is in danger, --there are such moments with you all when you seize the idea of human living and are made generous and brave because of it. Then, for all your modern dress, for all your modern parlor where you stand, you are heroic like David, like Paul, like any of God's knights in any of the ages which are most remote and picturesque. Then you catch some glimpse of a region into which you might enter, and where, with no blast of trumpets or waving of banners, you might be heroic all the time. II. 173. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Matt. V. 6. THE essence of every beatitude is in the human heart, and yet the human heart loves to hear the utterance of the beatitudes from the mouth of God as if they were His arbitrary enactments. I know by that of the nature of God which is in me as His child, that they which hunger and thirst after right..
| ISBN-13 | 9781150260513 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150260513 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 306 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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