Reminiscences of Bishops and Archbishops

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906 - 225 Seiten
 

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Seite 75 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Seite 49 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag, wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow...
Seite 46 - Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly : and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he : from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
Seite iii - ... expressed by politicians are slippery things. Still, it is possible to form a judgment as to why they change so frequently and adapt their morals to fit the circumstances that arise from time to time. Lord Acton, the finest European mind of the past century, wrote in a letter to Mary Gladstone: . . . The inner reality of history is so unlike the back of the cards, and it takes so long to get at it, which does not prevent us from disbelieving what is current as history, but makes us wish to sift...
Seite 158 - Chairman, that that last is preeminently true of the hymn beginning ' How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord.
Seite 135 - IF THOU BE MADE THE MASTER [OF A FEAST,] LIFT NOT THYSELF up, but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for them, and so sit down. And when thou hast done all thy office, take thy place, that thou mayest be merry with them, and receive a crown for thy well ordering of the feast.
Seite 49 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat...
Seite 156 - Rev. Dr. Henry Codman Potter, is of special interest : "He" (the reference is to Phillips Brooks) "did not love lawmaking, and he did not pretend to. In the only General Convention in which he sat, he was one of the junior bishops ; and his place, as such, in the House of Bishops, was near the door. I was going out of it, one day when, as I passed his seat...
Seite 184 - Lord. That it may please Thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of Thy Word ; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordingly ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Seite 171 - ushered into the bishop's own pew, where he listened intently to both service and sermon. He was manifestly amazed, afterward, to have the orator of the morning come down to greet him as cordially and familiarly as in the woods. He managed to stammer his thanks and added:

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