“I AM come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”—Matthew 10:35. The subject which is suggested by these words is, THE GREAT SEPARATION WHICH RELIGION MAKES IN FAMILIES. The Saviour, in the text, simply states a fact. He does not say…
COMMUNISM
Suffering unites all mortal flesh A mystic bond of pain, With little easement or surcease From gods or men to gain. It reigns coeval with the sway Of sin upon the race; A Job and a Prometheus bore It written on their face. Nor sex, nor age, nor rank exempts From its conscriptive law; None…
On Time
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross; So little is our loss, So little is thy…
Knowledge of God
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful of every good work, and INCREASING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. Col 1:10 The knowledge of God lies at the foundation of all true religion. It is the want or indistinctness of this knowledge that occasions all the stupidity of sinners and…
DECORATION.
Manibus O date lilia plenis. Mid the flower-wreathed tombs I stand Bearing lilies in my hand. Comrades! in what soldier-grave Sleeps the bravest of the brave? Is it he who sank to rest With his colors round his breast? Friendship makes his tomb a shrine; Garlands veil it: ask not mine. One low grave, yon…
Restlessness
The place both of the past and future is too much usurped in our minds by the restless and discontented present. The very quietness of nature is gradually withdrawn from us; thousands who once in their necessarily prolonged travel were subjected to an influence from the silent sky and slumbering fields, more effectual than known…
LIFE AND DEATH
“WHAT is Life, father?” “A Battle, my child, Where the strongest lance may fail, Where the wariest eyes may be beguiled, And the stoutest heart may quail. Where the foes are gathered on every hand, And rest not day or night, And the feeble little ones must stand In the thickest of the fight.” “What is…
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas’ father was going blind when he wrote this poem. The dying of the light is a reference to darkness and being blind. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at…
A THOUGHT OVER A CRADLE.
I sadden when thou smilest to my smile, Child of my love! I tremble to believe That o’er the mirror of that eye of blue The shadow of my heart will always pass;— A heart that, from its struggle with the world, Comes nightly to thy guarded cradle home, And, careless of the staining dust it…
She Was a Phantom of Delight
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image…