That claimest with a cunning face
Those rights the true, true Son of man doth own
By Love's authority."
--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.

Sparks Which Fly Upward. 186 S.A.

"But the troubles which he is born to are as
sparks which fly upward, not as flames burning
to the nethermost Hell."
--_Ruskin, Notes_.

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Star of Bethlehem. 41 L.J.

"Some astronomers believe that they have found
the great star around which the whole universe
of stars revolves: whether that be true or not,
it is undoubtedly true that the Star of
Bethlehem is the center of this world's
spiritual astronomy."
--_Theodore L. Cuyler_.

The Stars Fought in Their Courses. 58 T.J.

"Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the stars
Fought in their courses for a fate to be."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

A Still Small Voice. 124 T.J.

"A still small voice spake unto me."
--_Tennyson, The Two Voices_.

The Stirring of the Waters. 167 L.J.

"To-day a golden pinion stirred
The world's Bethesda pool,
And I believed the song I heard
Nor put my heart to school;
And through the rainbows of the dream
I saw the gates of Eden gleam."
--_Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower_.

The Stone Rolled Away. 297 L.J.

"Pitiless walls of gray,
Gathered around us, a growing tomb
From which it seemed not death or doom
Could roll the stone away."
--_Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island._

Tables of Stone 207,212 H.T.

"Heard the voice
Of him who met the Highest in the mount,
And brought them tables, graven with His hand."
--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.

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The Talent Hid in the Earth. 245 L.J.

"When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide."
--_Milton, Sonnet to His Blindness_.

Temperate in All Things. 438 S.A.

"'Tis to thy rules