"If to be fat be to be hated thenPharaoh's lean kine are to be loved."
--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:3.
"The immigrants that come to us ought to haveplenty of bread to eat and enough fragments leftover to be worth picking up, for while in thebread is the living, in the fragments is thelife. To them America means economic fragments."
--Edward A. Steiner.
"One looks close for the glance forward in theeyes, which distinguishes such pillars fromthe pillars, not of flesh, but of salt, whoseeyes are set backwards."
--Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia.
"Yet Thy poor endure,And are with us yet."
--Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones.
"There is a loud call for courageous idealistsand brave fighters to stand forth and summonother men to go forward and possess the land ofa better social order. The giants of greed andthe walls of difficulty cannot be allowed toshut us out nor to frighten us away."
--Charles Reynolds Brown.
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"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heapsOf doubt and horror,--what to sayOr think,--this awful secret sway,The potter's power over the clay!Of the same lump (it has been said).For honour and dishonour made,Two sister vessels."
--Rossetti, Jenny.
"One Mary bathes the blessed feetWith ointment from her eyes,With spikenard one, and both are sweet,For both are sacrifice."
--Lowell, Godminster Chimes.
"No trumpet-blast profanedThe hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;No bloody streamlet stainedEarth's silver rivers on that sacred morn."
--Bryant, Christmas in 1875.
"Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns,And to thy life were not deniedThe wounds in the hands and feet and side."
--Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal.
"What prodigal portion have I spent that Ishould stand to such penury?"
--Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1.
"Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reachThe door he seeks, forgetful of his sin,Longing to clasp him in a father's arms,And seal his pardon with a pitying tear."
--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.
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"With foretaste of the Land of Promise."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."
--Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2.
"A kindly renderingOf 'Render unto Caesar.'"
--Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2.
"Let us be diverted by none of those sophisticalcontrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule,and calling, not the sinners, but the righteousto repentance."
--Lincoln.
"With a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids do good for evil."
--Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3.
"No Rahab thread,For blushing token of the spy's success."
--Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country.
"We are our own devils;we drive ourselves out of our Edens."
--Goethe.
"So from my feet the dustOf the proud World I shook."
--Lowell, The Search.
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"Some great cause, God's new Messiah,offering each the bloom or blight,Parts the goats upon the left hand,and the sheep upon the right,And the choice goes by forever'twixt that darkness and that light."
--Lowell, The Present Crisis.
"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,Do break the clouds, as did the wives of JewryAt Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."
--Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3.
"That God would moveAnd strike the hard, hard rock, and thenceSweet in their utmost bitterness,Would issue tears of penitence."
--Tennyson, Supposed Confessions.
"Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;But in the sight of one whose plumes are full,In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
"That claimest with a cunning faceThose rights the true, true Son of man doth ownBy Love's authority."
--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.
"But the troubles which he is born to are assparks which fly upward, not as flames burningto the nethermost Hell."
--Ruskin, Notes.
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"Some astronomers believe that they have foundthe great star around which the whole universeof stars revolves: whether that be true or not,it is undoubtedly true that the Star ofBethlehem is the center of this world'sspiritual astronomy."
--Theodore L. Cuyler.
"Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the starsFought in their courses for a fate to be."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"A still small voice spake unto me."
--Tennyson, The Two Voices.
"To-day a golden pinion stirredThe world's Bethesda pool,And I believed the song I heardNor put my heart to school;And through the rainbows of the dreamI saw the gates of Eden gleam."
--Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower.
"Pitiless walls of gray,Gathered around us, a growing tombFrom which it seemed not death or doomCould roll the stone away."
--Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island.
"Heard the voiceOf him who met the Highest in the mount,And brought them tables, graven with His hand."
--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.
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"When I consider how my light is spentEre half my days in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest He returning chide."
--Milton, Sonnet to His Blindness.
"'Tis to thy rules, O Temperance, that we oweAll pleasures that from health and strength can flow;Vigor of body, purity of mind,Unclouded reason, sentiment refined."
--Chandler.
"To lie within the light of God,as I lie upon your breast--And the wicked cease from troublingand the weary are at rest."
--Tennyson, The May Queen.
"Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten."
--Browning The Ring and the Book.
"You would think that I had a hundred and fiftytattered prodigals lately come from swinekeeping, from eating draft and husks."
--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 4:2.
"There is a time for all things."
--Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors 2:2.
"The world sits at the feet of Christ,Unknowing, blind and unconsoled.It yet shall touch his garment's foldAnd feel the heavenly alchemistTransform its very dust to gold."
--Anonymous.
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"But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunkfrom my rod, And how red is the winepresswherein at my bidding they trod."
--The Paradox.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree, whose Mortal tasteBrought death into the World and all our woe. . .Sing Heavenly Muse."
--Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I.
"It fortifies my soul to knowThat, though I perish, Truth is so:That, howsoe'er I stray and range,Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.I steadier step when I recallThat, if I slip, Thou dost not fall."
--Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia.
"Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any godBefore whose feet men knelt unshodDeem that in this unblest abodeAnother scarce more unknown godShould house with him, from Nineveh?"
--Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh.
"We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive,Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten."
--Holmes, Manhood.
"Drew to the valleyNamed of the shadow."
--Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam.
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"You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abrahamwas any day, and as carefully visited by angels,sitting under their vine and fig tree."
--Ruskin, Notes.
"In this bleak wilderness I hearA John the Baptist crying."
--Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish.
"So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted highThrough the dear might of Him that walked the waves."
--Milton, Lycidas, line 172.
"The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the wellWhereof the woman of Samaria craved."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
"Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam."
--Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive.
"Their errors have been weighed and found tohave been dust in the balance."
--Shelley, A Defence of Poetry.
"Ay! when life seems scattered apart,Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,One, we are one, O heart of my heart,One, still one, while the world grows old."
--Alfred Noyes, Unity.
"A man is but a little thing among the objectsof nature, yet, by the moral quality radiatingfrom his countenance, he may abolish allconsiderations of magnitude, and in his mannersequal the majesty of the world."
--Emerson, Essay on Manners.
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"Look how the floor of heavenIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings."
--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1.
"The snow, the vapour and the stormy windfulfill his word."
--Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
"Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it."
--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 1:2.
"A man of superior sagacity may be pardoned forthinking with the friends of Job, that Wisdomwill die with him."
--Ruskin.
"Like that strange angel which of old,Until the breaking of the lightWrestled with wandering Israel."
--Tennyson, To--.
"We mean by war all that war ever meant,Destruction's ministers, Death's freemen, Lust'sExponents, daily like a blood-red dawnIn flames and crimson seas we shall advanceAgainst the ancient immaterial reignOf Spirit, and our watchword shall be still,Get thee behind me, God,--I follow Mammon."
--John Davidson, Mammon and His Message.
"Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylonand the sons of Jacob were in bondage to ourkings . . . from the remnant that dwells in Judeaunder the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptreshall arise."
--Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man.
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"The zeal for truth and righteousness andgoodness anywhere, in politics, or inliterature, or in education, does not seize holdof men with the vigor which may be described, inthe Bible phrase, as a zeal that eats one up."
--Samuel Valentine Cole.
"Why should we fly? Nay, why not rather stayAnd rear again our Zion's crumbled walls."
--Lowell, A Glance behind the Curtain.
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"Talk about the questions of the time: There is but one question:--How to bring the truths of God's Word into vital contact with the minds and hearts of all classes of the people."
--William E. Gladstone.
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The two greatest needs of the Bible School teacher are thorough preparation of the lesson, and enthusiasm in presenting it. These needs are effectively and abundantly met in THE BIBLE STORY. This volume is so arranged that the teacher in any department may find what is best adapted to a particular age. The following definite suggestions as to how THE BIBLE STORY may be used in the Bible School will be found interesting and helpful for teachers in the accomplishment of their great aims of imparting knowledge, developing character, and leading the pupil on to service.
Many primary teachers use a few minutes of the Bible School hour for supplementary work, in which they follow any desired line of teaching regardless of the prescribed lesson. For this supplementary work the following suggestions in this volume may be used:--
Memorizing Bible Verses, page15.Teaching God's Relation to the World, page16.Understanding Life in Bible Times, page19.
"Of all the things that a teacher should know how to do," says a great educator, "the most important, without any exception, is telling a story." The most beautiful Bible stories, especially suited to little children, are listed on pages17,18, and19of this volume, and teachers will find those referring to "The Golden Book" (G.B.) very attractively told for children. The stories are graded from the very simple to the more difficult and so may be adapted to the different classes.