Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings."
--_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1_.
The Wind Fulfills His Word. 173 S.A.
"The snow, the vapour and the stormy wind
fulfill his word."
--_Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture_.
Wisdom, Crying in the Streets. 249 S.A.
"Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 1:2_.
Wisdom shall Die with You. 194 S.A.
"A man of superior sagacity may be pardoned for
thinking with the friends of Job, that Wisdom
will die with him."
--_Ruskin_.
Wrestling Jacob. 80 H.T.
"Like that strange angel which of old,
Until the breaking of the light
Wrestled with wandering Israel."
--_Tennyson, To--_.
Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon. 205 L.J.
"We mean by war all that war ever meant,
Destruction's ministers, Death's freemen, Lust's
Exponents, daily like a blood-red dawn
In flames and crimson seas we shall advance
Against the ancient immaterial reign
Of Spirit, and our watchword shall be still,
Get thee behind me, God,--I follow Mammon."
--_John Davidson, Mammon and His Message_.
Yoke of Bondage. 507 H. T.
"Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon
and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our
kings . . . from the remnant that dwells in Judea
under the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptre
shall arise."
--_Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man_.
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Zeal That Consumes. 151 S.A.
"The zeal for truth and righteousness and
goodness anywhere, in politics, or in
literature, or in education, does not seize hold
of men with the vigor which may be described, in
the Bible phrase, as a zeal that eats one up."
--_Samuel Valentine Cole_.
Zion 470 H.T.
"Why should we fly? Nay, why not rather stay
And rear again our Zion's crumbled walls."
--_Lowell, A Glance behind the Curtain_.
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PART V
THE BIBLE AND THE TEACHER
_For the Bible School T
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