Lectures and AddressesJ. B. Alden, 1886 - 135 pagina's |
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Pagina 98 - awfulness of that supernatural thunder, was more than the sinful nation could bear. " And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Pagina 5 - was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Pagina 128 - essentials of man's eternal safety, the adequate revelation of God to the heathen world. It was hereby that " He left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Pagina 98 - are, in the book of Exodus, several passages of sublime significance in which Moses is represented as having communed with God on the summit of Sinai. There were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and it " quaked greatly ; " and " the voice of the trumpet, sounded long, and waxed louder and louder.
Pagina 127 - the 135th, the 136th, and indeed many others, are all but comments on that one Divine truth which is the only real philosophy of history, that " He is the Lord our God, His judgments are in all the earth." They are, in fact, interpretations of Jewish history, which reveal to us the eternal principles
Pagina 98 - but decisively ; not progressively, but at once. In all these respects our anticipations are reversed. It is a part of God's revelation to us that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. One of the very stamps of the
Pagina 94 - Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick walls or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts. No? Men—high-minded men; Men who their duties know,
Pagina 100 - Kings, warriors, prophets, historians, poets, exiles, shepherds, gatherers of sycamore fruit, fishermen, taxgatherers—" we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." Whether we read the passionate pleadings of an afflicted Chaldean noble, or the rhythmic utterances of a great Mesopotamian
Pagina 98 - will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by : and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts
Pagina 94 - men; Men who their duties know, And know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain— These constitute a state: And sovereign Law that, with collected will,