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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... Lxxxm FAITH AGAINST SIGHT 'As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be also in the day of the Son of Man.' The world has cycles in its course, when all That once has been, is acted o'er again: -- Not by some fated law, which need appal Our faith, or binds our deeds as with a chain; But by men's separate sins, which blended still The same bad round fulfil. Then fear ye not, though Gallio's scorn ye see, And soft-clad nobles count you mad, true hearts! These are the fig-tree's signs;--rough deeds must be, Trials and crimes: so learn ye well your parts. Once more to plough the earth it is decreed, u And scatter wide the seed. Off Sardinia. June 18, 1833. LXXXIV DESOLATION O Say not thou art left of God, Because His tokens in the sky Thou canst not read: this earth He trod To teach thee He was ever nigh. He sees, beneath the fig-tree green, Nathaniel con His sacred lore; Shouldst thou thy chamber seek, unseen, He enters through the unopen'd door. And when thou liest, by slumber bound, Outwearied in the Christian fight, In glory, girt with Saints around, He stands above thee through the night. When friends to Emmaus bend their course, He joins, although He holds their eyes: Or, shouldst thou feel some fever's force, He takes thy hand, He bids thee rise. Or on a voyage, when calms prevail, And prison thee upon the sea, He walks the wave, He wings the sail, The shore is gain'd, and thou art free.: LXXXV ZEAL AND PATIENCE 'I, Paul, the prisoner of the Lord.' O Comrade bold of toil and pain! Thy trial how severe, When sever'd first by prisoner's chain From thy loved labour-sphere! Say, did impatience first impel The heaven-sent bond to break? Or, couldst thou bear its hindrance well, Loitering for Jesu's sake? O might we know! for sore we feel...