Part 55 (1/2)

The Golden Calf. 204 H. T.

”We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee, Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss.”

--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.

The Golden Rule. 115 L.J.

”The golden rule of Christ will bring the golden age to man.”

--_Frances Willard_.

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. 42 L.J.

”'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate Or the fondle of silk and fur; 'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich As the gifts of the wise men were; And we are not told whose gift was gold Or whose the gift of myrrh.”

--_Edmund Vance Cooke_.

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Golgotha. 281 L.J.

”Having seen thine evil doom In Golgotha and Khartoum.”

--_Stevenson, If This Were Faith_.

A Grain of Mustard Seed. 134 L.J., 201 G.B.

”World-renowned far-working Inst.i.tution; like a grain of right mustard-seed once cast into the right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs to the four winds, for the birds of the air to lodge in.”

--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 10_.

Grapes of Canaan. 243 H.T.

”Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay But the high faith that failed not by the way.”

--_James R. Lowell_.

The Greatest of These is Love. 425 S.A.

”In faith and hope the world will disagree But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end; And all of G.o.d, that bless mankind, or mend.”

--_Pope, Essay on Man_.

Hands of Esau. 62 H.T.

”A heart as rough as Esau's hand.”

--_Tennyson, G.o.diva_.

The Handwriting on the Wall 201, 211 T.J.

”Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that divine handwriting has never blazed forth, all-subduing, in true sun-splendour.”

--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9_.

The Healing of the Nations. 478 S.A.

”O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the wisest; Sweet solaces of daily life, proofs and results of immortality; Trees yielding all fruits, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.”