It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy... The Living Age - Page 4701870Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 868 pages
...has been to him all along as the silent, but O how intelligible, voice of his guardian nneel ; and in the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." It is, therefore, an awful responsibility which they incur, who, without just cause shown, tamper with... | |
| 1855 - 534 pages
...English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of righteousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible.' One should think that... | |
| 1911 - 856 pages
...lt is his sacred thing which doubt never dimmed and controversy never soiled; and in the length ;mil breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with...him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon !',ii.i.-. The influence of the Bible on the.-rellglous and social life of the people, and on the English... | |
| 1855 - 336 pages
...English Jlble. .... It Is bis sacred thing, which doubt bas never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there Is not...religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography Is not n his Saxon Bible.' " Not long since, in the State of Maine, suit was >rought by a Catholic in one... | |
| 1856 - 504 pages
...his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." Ekonore and other Poems. By HAMILTON AIDE. Chapman & Hall. THIS Is the first occasion on which we have... | |
| Massachusetts Bible Society - 1853 - 814 pages
...of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, nor controversy soiled. In the length and breadth of the land, there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." And this sentiment in regard to the Bible, as a national household book, spreads wherever the Bible... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...has be«n to him all along as the silent, but 0 how intelligible voice of his guardian angel ; and in the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible. And all this is an unhallowed power ! The extinction of the Establishment would be a less stnp towards... | |
| Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pages
...dimmed, and controversy never spoiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not an English Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible.' " Yes, all that is true ! True for Englishmen to-day, but how much more deeply and dearly true for... | |
| 1854 - 778 pages
...English Bible. It is his SACRED THISG, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible. — Newman. THE CEDAR HILL. ON THE EAELY FORMATION OF GOOD HABITS, (Continued from page 27.) 3. Your... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 pages
...Bible. . . . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not....whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible."* Such are his touching words ; and certainly one has only to compare this version of ours with the Douay,... | |
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