Short History of the Early ChurchChautauqua Press, 1886 - 134 pages |
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Page 48 - AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope received of thee.
Page 126 - The saint, the scholar, from a circle freed Of toil stupendous, in a hallowed seat Of learning, where thou heard'st the billows beat On a wild coast, rough monitors to feed Perpetual industry. Sublime Recluse ! The recreant soul, that dares to shun the debt Imposed on human kind, must first forget Thy diligence, thy unrelaxing use Of a long life ; and, in the hour of death, The last dear service of thy passing breath...
Page 49 - Draper. Succeeding decades bore testimony to the fact that " the state which seeks to advance Christianity by the worldly means at its command, may be the occasion of more injury to this holy cause than the earthly power which opposes it with whatever virulence.
Page 14 - ... thoughts and quiet his first emotion of concern with reason, he adorned his head again, finished the sacrifice, and spoke thus to the messengers : I did not make it my request to the Gods, that my son might be immortal or long-lived, for it is not manifest whether this was convenient for him or not, but that he might have integrity in his principles and be a lover of his country ; and now I have my desire.
Page 11 - Greek philosophers was Plato. In many departments of his philosophy, such as the unity and spirituality of God and the immortality of the soul, he made, though unconsciously, very near approaches to the truths of revelation.
Page 65 - The Father is greater than the Son, and the Son is subordinate to the Father.' If you inquire, ' Is the bath ready ?' you will hear, ' The Son was created from nothing.
Page 119 - ... crept o'er Diluvian truths, and patriarchal lore. Haughty the Bard : can these meek doctrines blight His transports ? wither his heroic strains ? But all shall be fulfilled ;— the Julian spear A way first opened ; and, with Roman chains, The tidings come of Jesus crucified ; They come — they spread — the weak, the suffering, hear; Receive the faith, and in the hope abide.
Page 116 - I drown'd the whoopings of the owl with sound Of pious hymns and psalms, and sometimes saw An angel stand and watch me, as I sang. Now am I feeble grown : my end draws nigh— I hope my end draws nigh : half deaf I am, So that I scarce can hear the people hum About the column's base, and almost blind...
Page 120 - We are but of yesterday," he said; " yet we have filled your empire, your cities, your islands, your castles, your corporate towns, your assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, your companies, your palace, your senate, your forum; your temples alone are left to you.
Page 115 - It was a kind of emigration of towns to the desert, of civilization to simplicity, of noise to silence, of corruption to innocence. The current once begun, floods of men, of women, and of children threw themselves into it, and flowed thither during a century, with resistless force.