Excerpt: Life is a gift of very unequal distribution. I am not speaking merely of length of life, though that is an important element in the case: there may be sad and quiet years which do not count: we have known existences which crept on in one dull round, from petty pleasure to petty pleasure, from monotonous occupation to monotonous occupation, never roused to storm by any noble passion, never thrilled by an electric touch of [Pg 6]sympathy.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint
Excerpt:
Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite
Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
by Martin Luther
Excerpt:
Martin Luther died on the 18th of February, 1546, and the first publication of his “Table Talk”—Tischreden—by his friend, Johann Goldschmid (Aurifaber), was in 1566, in a substantial folio
The Healthy Life Cook Book The Healthy Life Cook Book
by Florence Daniel
Excerpt:
This little book has been compiled by special and repeated request. Otherwise, I should have hesitated to add to the already existing number of vegetarian cookery books
The Covenants And The Covenanters The Covenants And The Covenanters -
The Covenants, Sermons, and Papers in this volume carry the readers back to some of the brightest periods of Scottish history
A Comparative View of Religions A Comparative View of Religions - The conception of religion presupposes, a, God as object; b, man as subject; c, the mutual relation existing between them
A History of the Moravian Church A History of the Moravian Church - A History of the Moravian Church by Joseph Edmund Hutton
Excerpt:
When an ordinary Englishman, in the course of his reading, sees mention made of Moravians, he thinks forthwith of a foreign land, a
foreign people and a foreign Church. He wonders who these Moravians may be, and wonders, as a rule, in vain