The Balance: Or Moral Arguments for Universalism

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Universalist Publishing House, 1846 - 155 pages
 

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Page 18 - But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth ; Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times opprest, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in heaven its perfect rest : It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of Love is there.
Page 18 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 155 - ... sea, its frozen fetters breaking. And flinging up to heaven its sunlit spray, Tossing huge continents in scornful play, And crushing them, with din of grinding thunder, That makes old emptinesses stare in wonder ; The memory of a glory passed away Lingers in every heart, as, in the shell, Resounds the bygone freedom of the sea, And every hour new signs of promise tell, That the great soul shall once again be free, For high, and yet more high, the murmurs swell Of inward strife for truth and liberty.
Page 136 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, And bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; It shall not return to me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please. And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 151 - For the plain truth, very plain, we think is, that minds are opposed to minds in quite a different way; and one man that has a higher Wisdom, a hitherto unknown spiritual Truth in him, is stronger, not than ten men that have it not, or than ten thousand, but than all men that have it not; and stands among them with a quite ethereal, angelic power, as with a sword out of Heaven's own armoury, sky-tempered, which no buckler, and no tower of brass, will finally withstand.
Page 12 - I sincerely hope Father may yet recover his health; but at all events tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great, and good, and merciful Maker, who will not turn away from him in any extremity. He notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads; and He will not forget the dying man who puts his trust in Him.
Page 93 - ... certainty know. No possible event has power to agitate me with joy or sorrow, for I look down calm and unmoved upon all, since I am aware that I am not able to understand events in all their bearings. All that happens belongs to the everlasting plan of Providence, and is good in its place : how much in this plan is pure gain, how much is merely good as means to some further end, for the destruction of some present evil, I know not. I am satisfied with, and stand fast as a rock on, the belief...
Page 92 - ... infallibly shall know, and I refrain from forming conjectures as to what I am sure I can never with certainty know. No possible event has power to agitate me with joy or sorrow, for I look down calm and unmoved upon all, since I am aware that I am not able to understand events in all their bearings. All that happens belongs to the everlasting plan of Providence, and is good in its place : how much in this plan is pure gain, how much is merely good as means to some further end, for the destruction...
Page 91 - A tyrant strive? to bring to the condition of menials, a whole people; and we see that his oppression was the last irritation required to goad on that people to assert their freedom. A religious bigot kindles the fires of persecution, and then the reformer lights his torch, and the fabric of superstition is consumed.
Page 90 - Through every age, by the exertion of every people, by the rise and fall of nations, does the Deity perfect his work. A conqueror arises and desolates kingdoms by his ambition; and after the tumult has...

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