 | 1852 - 348 páginas
...proclaims to us, as if from the utmost pinnacle of scientific achievement, the conclusion that planets suns, systems, plants, beings, men, are but inevitable...and (apparent) extinction of being. Since myriads of millions have " died and made no sign " since Christ was received up into heaven, men's hearts are... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1852 - 346 páginas
...universally diffused vapor or " fire-mist," our hearts sink within us as we falter out the expostulation, (c 0 star-eyed Science ' hast thou wandered there, To...and (apparent) extinction of being. Since myriads of millions have " died and made no sign " since Christ was received up into heaven, men's hearts are... | |
 | 1854 - 942 páginas
...hangs trembling over the brink of the grave, and tearfully, dubiously asks, ' It" a man die, shall he live again ? ' Most of us believe he will, and yet would give very much to know it." In this view of the subject we may economise our narrow space, by treating the sceptical or anti-religious... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1852 - 746 páginas
...trembling over the brink of the grave, and tearfully, dubiously asks, ' if a man die, shall he live again V Most of us believe he will, and yet would give very much to know it," In this view of the subject we may economize our narrow space, by treating the sceptical or anti-religious... | |
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Nature as we see it has been so unvaried and inflexible, — the fall and disappearance of the successive generations of men so much like that of the annually renewed foliage of the forest — that even Faith hangs trembling over the brink of the grave,... 