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... poet meant when he wrote many centuries ago ( I quote from Mr. Conway's Sacred Anthology ) , ' Diversity of worship has divided the human race into seventy - two nations . From among all their dogmas I have selected one - the Love of ...
... poet meant when he wrote many centuries ago ( I quote from Mr. Conway's Sacred Anthology ) , ' Diversity of worship has divided the human race into seventy - two nations . From among all their dogmas I have selected one - the Love of ...
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... poets ; there is a revival in the study of Sanskrit , a surprising activity in the republication of Sanskrit texts , and there are traces among the Hindus of a growing feeling , not very different from that which Tacitus described when ...
... poets ; there is a revival in the study of Sanskrit , a surprising activity in the republication of Sanskrit texts , and there are traces among the Hindus of a growing feeling , not very different from that which Tacitus described when ...
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... poet Jajadeva , ' just published , bears witness to the same revival of literary tastes and patriotic feelings . Besides this purely literary movement , there is a religious movement going on in India , the Brahmo- samâj , which , both ...
... poet Jajadeva , ' just published , bears witness to the same revival of literary tastes and patriotic feelings . Besides this purely literary movement , there is a religious movement going on in India , the Brahmo- samâj , which , both ...
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... poets and prophets of India contain treasures of truth which ought never to be forgotten , least of all by the sons of India . The late good Bishop Cotton , in his address to the students of a missionary institution at Calcutta ...
... poets and prophets of India contain treasures of truth which ought never to be forgotten , least of all by the sons of India . The late good Bishop Cotton , in his address to the students of a missionary institution at Calcutta ...
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... poet , after he has asked to whom sacrifice is due , answers , ' to Him who is God above all gods . ' Another poet , after enu- merating the names of many deities , affirms , without hesitation , that these are all but names of Him who ...
... poet , after he has asked to whom sacrifice is due , answers , ' to Him who is God above all gods . ' Another poet , after enu- merating the names of many deities , affirms , without hesitation , that these are all but names of Him who ...
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Page 415 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 422 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 414 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 33 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
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Page 408 - Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? who hath gathered the wind in his fists ? who hath bound the waters in a garment ? who hath established all the ends of the earth ? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell ? 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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