Proceedings and Addresses of the Alumni Jubilee and the Semi-centennial Commencement of Hanover CollegeCourier Company, 1883 - 124 pages |
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Page 89 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 21 - For saith he, it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.
Page 44 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 76 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 41 - To make the people fittest to choose, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education, to teach the people faith, not without virtue, temperance, modesty, sobriety, parsimony, justice; not to admire wealth or honour; to hate turbulence and ambition; to place every one his private welfare and happiness in the public peace, liberty, and safety.
Page 10 - Have Faith! Where'er thy bark is driven— The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth — Know this : God rules the hosts of heaven, The inhabitants of earth. Have Love ! Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call, And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul — Hope, Faith and Love— and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind.
Page 86 - The shroud of souls is riven ! Mind, mind alone Is light, and hope, and life, and power ! Earth's deepest night, from this bless'd hour, The night of minds is gone ! " The Press ! " all lands shall sing ; The Press, the Press...
Page 20 - THE supreme judge by which all controversies of Religion are to be determined and all decrees of Councills opinions of ancient writers doctrines of men and private spirits are to be examined and in whose sentence we are to rest can be no other but the holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture CHAP.
Page 20 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 75 - And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.