A Memorial to Eldress Anna White, and Elder Daniel Offord

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North Family of Shakers, 1912 - 182 páginas

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Página 142 - PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered, or unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast...
Página 175 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Página 104 - I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Página 177 - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Página 83 - It was once our Mother's •way.' "If our home be bright and cheery, If it hold a welcome true, Opening wide its door of greeting To the many, not the few; If we share our Father's bounty With the needy, day by day, 'Tis because our hearts remember, This was ever Mother's way. "Sometimes, when our...
Página 109 - I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Página 100 - Right forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 127 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forget fulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Página 114 - To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls!
Página 61 - And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. Then shall the end come.

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