Life of Bishop WainwrightGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday school union and church book society, 1861 - 184 pages |
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Page 150 - The clergy respected him ; the laity supported him ; his friends loved and honored him.' Waiting; waiting in severe storms ! Aye ; in every part of the diocese has he been at times seen — waiting in the summer's heat and in the winter's cold. No, not waiting ; but everywhere, on the great highways and aside from the thoroughfares of travel, in lonely vales and among bleak^ hills, braving the inclement seasons, and wet with the autumnal dews of the night, he has been constantly seen pursuing his...
Page 121 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
Page 51 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 150 - ... in the winter's cold. No, not waiting ; but everywhere, on the great highways and aside from the thoroughfares of travel, in lonely vales and among bleak hills, braving the inclement seasons, and wet with the autumnal dews of the night, he has been constantly seen pursuing his way by any conveyance which might be presented to him, from one distant point to another, to visit the populous town or the humble country church, or the obscure school-house, hastening to bestow his blessing, whether on...
Page 53 - ... language. At first, infusing itself into upright minds, with the air of scriptural inquiry, it caused a theological mistake ; then, spreading the shining mist of liberality over the cold, the vain, the worldly, the timid, the presumptuous, it nourished a stupendous heresy ; and finally, forcing a bolder order of thinkers back upon themselves, it issued in a wilderness of popular unbelief. But the spirit which loves to doubt can but depart, by its very nature, farther and farther from the high...
Page 28 - ELEGY Written in a Country Church Yard. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight...
Page 68 - Deacon; and, in 1800, became an Assistant Minister of Trinity Church in the city of New York.
Page 150 - papers of this city, yesterday, in announcing his death, used the following touching words : — " Since the period of his election he has known but little rest ; we have often seen him wrapt in an ample cloak, waiting in severe storms the arrival of conveyances to take him to and from the city. The Clergy respected him ; the laity supported him ; his friends loved and honoured him.
Page 132 - His imitations of gaits in various orthopedic conditions can never be forgotten by any who had the good fortune to be present.
Page 176 - who gathered the lambs in his arms, and carried them in his bosom, and gently led those that were with young", will " never break the bruised reed or quench the smoking flax.