"The golden rule of Christ
will bring the golden age to man."
--_Frances Willard_.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. 42 L.J.
"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate
Or the fondle of silk and fur;
'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich
As the gifts of the wise men were;
And we are not told whose gift was gold
Or whose the gift of myrrh."
--_Edmund Vance Cooke_.
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Golgotha. 281 L.J.
"Having seen thine evil doom
In Golgotha and Khartoum."
--_Stevenson, If This Were Faith_.
A Grain of Mustard Seed. 134 L.J., 201 G.B.
"World-renowned far-working Institution; like a
grain of right mustard-seed once cast into the
right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs
to the four winds, for the birds of the air to
lodge in."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 10_.
Grapes of Canaan. 243 H.T.
"Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay
But the high faith that failed not by the way."
--_James R. Lowell_.
The Greatest of These is Love. 425 S.A.
"In faith and hope the world will disagree
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend."
--_Pope, Essay on Man_.
Hands of Esau. 62 H.T.
"A heart as rough as Esau's hand."
--_Tennyson, Godiva_.
The Handwriting on the Wall 201, 211 T.J.
"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that
divine handwriting has never blazed forth,
all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9_.
The Healing of the Nations. 478 S.A.
"O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the wisest;
Sweet solaces of daily life, proofs and results of immortality;
Trees yielding all fruits, whose leaves are for the healing of the
nations."
--_Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading_.
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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head. 507 T.J., 504 G.B.
"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,
Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed. 257 S.A.
"Her children shall rise up to bless her name,
And wish her harmless length of days,
The mighty mother of a mighty brood."
--_Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July_.
He Who Runs may Read. 392 S.A.
"Perchance more careful whoso runs may read,
Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Herod of Jewry. 45 L.J.
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