Excerpts from the Book 'Beside The Still Waters':
... at which all the changes which have taken place upon the earth's surface, and have left their unmistakable marks in countless relics of animal ...
... are choked with barren mud, the bridges scattered in ruin through the stream, the cheerful husbandry of men laid hopelessly waste. But we cannot ...
... a great soul though it is needful to remark that not all great souls work in the full light of publicity and have their path marked by revolution, and ...
... the course of ages, urge it a little nearer the throne of God. Is the faith of Christendom sustained from generation to generation by the succession ...
... to hidden forces, unseen influences, which you perhaps can track only in part, but of which others know nothing. A father's integrity-a mother's ...
... your nobler part. They are the refreshing dew and the fertilizing rain, the restful night and the kindling day, of God's moral world. We grow up ...
... of causation to what seems (but only seems) to be trivial, and is certainly obscure. Let us take the most remarkable instance of all,-the Christ, whom ...
... mother of Christ. What depth of tenderness, what steadiness of judgment, what a majestic and yet winning purity, what a faculty of self-devotion ...
... thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might and again a third, The fields are white unto harvest, but the labourers are few. But God ...
... fresh possibilities of interest in the things that lie closest at home the widest and the warmest heart learns that faltering feet and feeble hands cannot ...
... of these it is not needful now to speak. It is more to my purpose to point out that it is susceptible of a singular symmetry and completeness. The very ...
... hit the mean between base self-saving and foolish self-squandering,-that I think it must be a common wish for keen consciences to have the boundaries ...
... of access to Him and the soul to which they minister, through the weary hours of the day and in the long watches of the night, may frequently ...
... completeness with which a comparatively narrow place may be filled, over against the want of balance, and symmetry, and thoroughness, of which all day-workers ...
... refreshment of peace, now for the balm of consolation, now, again, for the inspiration of a purer dutifulness while over all constantly broods the presence ...
... we use the word in some shallow and conventional sense which does not answer to our best and deepest knowledge. For although one who lives so narrowed ...
... give nor take away. And then there is a grace of character which is one of the rarest gifts of healthy, active life but which, wherever it shews ...
... EuropeaCarlos T is a Portuguese writer and song lyrics writer. His name is automatically associated with the musician Rui Veloso for whom he wrote ...
... And AgricolaPublius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 - AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his ...
... number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature conversation or ...