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The City of the Lost, and Other Sermons [Signed GP and Gf] Walter Augustus Gray,Beauchamp Kerr Pearse No preview available - 2016 |
The City of the Lost, and Other Sermons [Signed GP and Gf] Walter Augustus Gray No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 44 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection...
Page 118 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 100 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 95 - Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled* among the unhallowed* damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
Page 142 - Remit the anguish of that lighted stare; Close those wan lips; let that thornwounded brow Stream not with blood; it mingles with thy tears ! Fix, fix those tortured orbs in peace and death, So thy sick throes shake not that crucifix, So those pale fingers play not with thy gore.
Page 95 - Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves— sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
Page 59 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 39 - And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. 3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
Page 12 - And now I exhort you to be of good cheer : for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Page 70 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.