Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...king. 13 Worthy they who are maligned and wronged because they do the right; their persecutors they shall bless. 14 Worthy is the trustful child of faith; he shall sit in the throne of power. 15 Be not discouraged when the world shall persecute and call you curst; but rather be exceeding glad. 16 The prophets and the seers, and all the good of earth, have been maligned. 17 If you are worthy of the crown of life you will be slandered, vilified and curst on earth. 18 Rejoice when evil men shall drive you from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and byword in the street. 19 I say, rejoice; but deal in mercy with the doers of the wrong; they are but children at their play; they know not what they do. 20 Rejoice not over fallen foes. As you help men rise from the depth of sin, so God will help you on to greater heights. 21 Woe to the rich is gold and lands; they have temptations multiform. 22 Woe unto men who walk at will in pleasure's paths; their ways are full of snares and dangerous pits. 23 Woe to the proud; they stand upon a precipice; destruction waits for them. 24 Woe to the man of greed; for what he has is not his own; and, lo, another comes; his wealth is gone. 25 Woe to the hypocrite; his form is fair to look upon; his heart is filled with carcasses and dead men's bones. 26 Woe to the cruel and relentless man; he is himself the victim of his deeds. 27 The evil he would do to other men rebounds; the scourger is the scourged. 28 Woe to the libertine who preys upon the virtues of the weak. The hour comes when he will be the weak, the victim of a libertine of greater power. 29 Woe unto you when all the world shall speak in praise of you. The world speaks not in praise of men who live within the Holy Breath; it speaks in praise of...
