ut in earth's common things he stands revealed,
While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name."
--_Minot J. Savage_.
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The Burning Fiery Furnace. 190 T.J.
"Be it floor or blood the path that's trod,
All the same it leads to God.
Be it furnace fire voluminous
One like God's Son will walk with us."
--_Christina G. Rossetti_.
By Their Fruits Ye shall Know Them. 109 G.B., 117 L.J.
"If the tree be known by the fruit
and fruit by the tree."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:4_.
Carry Off the City's Gates. 176 T.J.
"Samson, master: . . . he carried the
town gates on his back like a porter."
--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 1:2_.
Casting Lots for His Garments. 281 L.J.
"They are now casting lots,
Ay, with that gesture quaint and cry uncouth,
For the coat of One murdered an hour ago."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Cast Out of Eden. 21 T.J.
"What of Adam cast out of Eden?
(Alas the hour)
Lo! with care like a shadow shaken
He tills the hard earth whence he was taken."
--_Rossetti, Eden Bower_.
Cedars of Lebanon. 457 H.T.
"Feasted the woman wisest then,
in halls of Lebanonian cedar."
--_Tennyson, The Princess_.
The Chariot of Fire. 134 T.J.
"As he, whose wrongs
The bears avenged, at its departure saw
Elijah's chariot, when the steeds erect
Raised their steep flight for heaven; his eyes, meanwhile,
Straining pursued them, till the flame alone,
Upsoaring like a misty speck, he kenned."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
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The Chosen People. 51 S.A.
"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an
humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty,
and of this, his almost chosen people, for
perpetuating the object of that great struggle."
--_Lincoln, Speech to the Senate of New Jersey_.
The Chosen Vessel. 372 L.J.
"He came who was the Holy Spirit's vessel;
Barefoot and lean."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
A Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by Night.
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