Sunday School Selections; Comprising a Wide Range of Reading and Recitations Adapted to Church and Sunday School Entertainments and to All Gatherings of a Moral or Religious Character
Sunday School Selections; Comprising a Wide Range of Reading and Recitations Adapted to Church and Sunday School Entertainments and to All Gatherings of a Moral or Religious Character
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in the plashing pool, the meandering rivulet, the running stream, and the flowing river, it is gracefully beautiful; in the dripping dew, the trickling tear, the streaming jet, and the spouting geyser, it is impressively beautiful; in the swelling flood, the rushing tide, the surging sea, the foaming cataract, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in the plashing pool, the meandering rivulet, the running stream, and the flowing river, it is gracefully beautiful; in the dripping dew, the trickling tear, the streaming jet, and the spouting geyser, it is impressively beautiful; in the swelling flood, the rushing tide, the surging sea, the foaming cataract, and the roaring ocean, it is grandly beautiful; among the peaks of the Himalayas, amid the Arctic icebergs, and in the Alpine glaciers, it is sublimely beautiful; when overflowing, inundating, and deluging, causing isolation, it is awingly beautiful; and even when simmering, hissing, seething, or boiling, it has a semblance of beauty. Ever where it is a thing of beauty, whether glistening in the dew-drop, gleaming in the ice-gem, shimmering in the gentle rain, flashing in the sunlight, begemming the grass, bejeweling the trees, veiling the golden sun, haloing the silver moon, painting the hues of the rainbow, fleecing the wintry world with a mantle of purity, or checkering the azure sky with varying clouds by the mystic hand of radiation, it is always beautiful, inexpressibly beautiful. Its beauty, purity, brilliance, and grandeur should rivet our attention and challenge our admiration! But is it merely a thing of beauty? No! emphatically, no! It is health-giving, life-sustaining, and tradepromoting. It is vivifying, refreshing, strengthening, invigorating, and purifying; it cools the fevered brow, moistens the parched lips, and quenches the burning thirst; with the aid of the north-wind it produces the cooling ice, and flakes the mantling snow; it distils in enlivening dew, and descends in refreshing showers; it washes the filth from the surface of the earth and the poisonous malaria from the atmosphere; it imparts health, and promotes life; it is li...
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