Proceedings and Addresses, Volume 21The Society, 1912 - 44 pages |
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Page 172 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 171 - Dear as thou wert, and justly dear, We will not weep for thee ; One thought shall check the starting tear — It is that thou art free.
Page 131 - Even while with us thy footstep trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust, to its narrow house beneath ! Soul, to its place on high! — They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die. Lone are the paths, and sad the bowers, Whence thy meek smile is gone ; But oh! — a brighter home than ours, In heaven, is now thine own.
Page 110 - This languishing head is at rest ; Its thinking and aching are o'er; This quiet, immovable breast, Is heaved by affliction no more This heart is no longer the seat Of trouble and torturing pain; It ceases to flutter and beat — It never shall flutter again.
Page 88 - God my Redeemer lives, And often from the skies Looks down and watches all my dust, Till he shall bid it rise. 4 Array'd in glorious grace Shall these vile bodies shine, And every shape and every face Look heavenly and divine. 5 These lively hopes we owe To Jesus' dying love ; We would adore his grace below, And sing his power above.
Page 62 - The rioters, however, were convicted and punished severely by the State Courts. On that occasion the foreman of the jury told the Attorney General " that he was much or more opposed to the excise law than the rioters, but would not suffer violators of the law to go unpunished.
Page 51 - Hill," the little command was greeted with a sudden though harmless volley from the enemy. The men shrunk and fell back, but Atlee rallied and Parry cheered them on, and they gained the hill. It was here, while engaged in an officer's highest duty, turning men to the enemy by his own example, that the fatal bullet pierced his brow. When some future monument rises from Greenwood to commemorate the struggle of this day, it can bear no more fitting line among its inscriptions than this tribute of Brodhead's,...
Page 3 - XXII. of a narrative and critical history prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society.
Page 27 - The election of officers for the coming year resulted as follows: president...
Page 20 - The Constitution gave him two masters. Both he could not serve; and the average man decided which to serve in the light of sentiment, tradition and environment.