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Página 120 - There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold, But one was out on the hills away, Far off from the gates of gold— Away on the mountains wild and bare, Away from the tender Shepherd's care. "Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine; Are they not enough for Thee?
Página 120 - But none of the ransomed ever knew, How deep were the waters crossed ; Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through, Ere he found his sheep that was lost : Out in the desert he heard its cry — Sick and helpless and ready to die. " Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way That mark out the mountain's track ? " " They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him back." " Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ? ' "They are pierced to-night by many a...
Página 14 - Though my heart fail, and flesh decay ; This anchor shall my soul sustain, When earth's foundations melt away ; Mercy's full power I then shall prove, Loved with an everlasting love.
Página 88 - They do not force it upon us, as the Mohammedans used to their Koran ; but they bring it in love, and translate it into our languages, and lay it before us, and say, ' Look at it, read it, examine it, and see if it is not good.
Página 120 - Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ? ' "They are pierced to-night by many a thorn." And all through the mountains, thunder-riven And up from the rocky steep, There rose a cry to the gate of heaven, " Rejoice ! I have found my sheep ! " And the angels echoed around the throne, " Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own !
Página 120 - Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine, Are they not enough for Thee?" But the Shepherd made answer! "This of Mine Has wandered away from Me; And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find My sheep.
Página 88 - Bible. I have looked into it a good deal at one time and another, in the different languages I chance to know. It is just the same in all languages. The Bible — there is nothing to compare with it in all our sacred books for goodness and purity and holiness and love, and for motives of action. " Where did the English-speaking people get all their intelligence and energy and cleverness and power? It is their Bible that gives it to them.
Página 88 - Is it for gain or profit that they come ? Some of us country clerks in Government offices receive more salary than they. Is it for the sake of an easy life ? See how they work, and then tell me. No : they seek, like the mango tree, to bear fruit for the benefit of others, and this too, though treated with contumely and abuse from those they are benefiting.
Página 113 - Mother, she told me this; and then she hid her face in her book, and cried as if her heart would break. Mother, I could not help putting my face on the other page of the book, and crying too, as hard as she did. After we had cried together a long time, she hugged me and kissed me, telling me I had done her good. Mother, I don't know how I did her good, for I only cried with her.
Página 88 - Not at all. The next season the budding leaves, the beauteous flowers, the tender fruit again appear. Again is it pelted, and broken, and wounded, but it goes on bearing, and children's children pelt its branches and enjoy its fruit. " ' That is a type of these Missionaries. I have watched them well, and have seen what they are. What do they come to this country for ? What tempts them to leave their parents, friends, and country, and come to this, to them, unhealthy...