The design of love / written by E.B.

  • Parker, George Williams.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The design of love / written by E.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Though truly cunning he its foul disguise! — And prove that HE who chose thee never erred, If high the estimate in wisdom formed, Since HIS refining fire of ages* showed The gold He knew was hid in roughest ore ! Whate’er the gifts a bounteous Hand bestows (Their very greatness tending to empride !) ;f lie fair Humility alone the garb, ‘ Lovest Thou Me?”- 190. And this the daily prayer Te Deum! every heart, “ THEE only, LOR]) ! with every fault, Ilove! ” And since HE wills that thou for HIMshalt lead Less favoured races to the chosen goal, To which a noble spirit will aspire ; Let nought but good from all thy influence spring, As heavenly music from a distant shore !—J of The Prophecy of TE J)UCE,§ be the world to GOOD- _ Virgil NESS led !— ( 0 °6ue ■) Sannatia quit a dark Siberian mine, || With all the foul indignities it hides !— 200. Teutonia scorn to heed a noisy Mars, * Mai. iii. 2.—“ Eternal fire,’' or “ everlasting fire ’’ (in Bible) is more correctly translated “fire of ages” i.e. lasting for ages. A “ fire which never dies out ” is a sheer impossi- bility, because all fire dies when its fuel is used up! f Empride, producing pride. J “ One still Sunday morning a ship was sailing 100 miles off the coast of Brazil, when the sound of church bells was heard at a certain spot on her deck !—Whence came the mysterious ringing ? Months after- wards it was found that the bells of San Salvador had made themselves heard thus far out over the water, and the air thrill- ing with the melody had been focussed by the concave sail on to the vessel’s deck.” . [Sunday at Home ; November 1880, page 28.] § Te Duce, thee leading : double reference in Te to (1) England (2; God ! Russia [Written February 14,1890 ; after reading account (about third in as many months !) of fresh Russian-Tartar atrocities on “prisoners’1 (some not so; also females accompanying friends into exile !)—atrocities as foul as any perpetrated by Mohammedans, North American Indians, or Chinese !]