Plain American Talk in the Philippines (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Tragedy of Weakness And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold I will do a tiling in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day I will perfom against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not, And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering forever. I Samuel 3, 11-14. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Luke 23, 31. God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Thus said the Lord through the lips of an American of the past generation who was ever valiant for the truth upon the earth. It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine. In a Moses, meekness is a king- becoming virtue. Humility in a Uriah A Sermon delivered in the Church of St. Mary and St. John, December 17th, 1905. Heep is detestable. I would not say that it makes no difference what kind of a platform a man stands on in this world, but I do say that it is better for a man to stand upright and vital on a lower platform, daring to speak the rude truth as he sees it always-, than it is for him to go on all-fours on a higher platform, crouching and creeping and boot-licking. Your goodness must have some edge to it, said Emerson, else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. More that is divine can be exhibited through a supplanter like Jacob, despite his hardness, than through an easy-going loose-handed Esau. To the one it was said, ..

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Tragedy of Weakness And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold I will do a tiling in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day I will perfom against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not, And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering forever. I Samuel 3, 11-14. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Luke 23, 31. God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Thus said the Lord through the lips of an American of the past generation who was ever valiant for the truth upon the earth. It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine. In a Moses, meekness is a king- becoming virtue. Humility in a Uriah A Sermon delivered in the Church of St. Mary and St. John, December 17th, 1905. Heep is detestable. I would not say that it makes no difference what kind of a platform a man stands on in this world, but I do say that it is better for a man to stand upright and vital on a lower platform, daring to speak the rude truth as he sees it always-, than it is for him to go on all-fours on a higher platform, crouching and creeping and boot-licking. Your goodness must have some edge to it, said Emerson, else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. More that is divine can be exhibited through a supplanter like Jacob, despite his hardness, than through an easy-going loose-handed Esau. To the one it was said, ..

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 1mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

52

ISBN-13

978-0-217-02892-9

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9780217028929

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0-217-02892-6



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