"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical
contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule,
and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous
to repentance."
--_Lincoln_.

Return Good for Evil. 416 S.A.

"With a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids do good for evil."
--_Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3_.

The Scarlet Thread in the Window 282 H.T.

"No Rahab thread,
For blushing token of the spy's success."
--_Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country_.

A Serpent in Eden. 19 T.J.

"We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out
of our Edens."
--_Goethe_.

Shake Off the Dust That is under Your Feet. 143 L.J.

"So from my feet the dust
Of the proud World I shook."
--_Lowell, The Search_.

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The Sheep and the Goats. 246 L.J.

"Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand,
and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever
'twixt that darkness and that light."
--_Lowell, The Present Crisis_.

The Silver Cord. 246 S.A.

"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?
Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")
Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Slaughter of the Innocents. 45 L.J.

"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."
--_Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3_.

Smite the Rock 247 H.T.

"That God would move
And strike the hard, hard rock, and thence
Sweet in their utmost bitterness,
Would issue tears of penitence."
--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.

The Snare of the Fowler. 106 S.A.

"Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;
But in the sight of one whose plumes are full,
In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.

Son of Man. 246 L.J.

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