The Bible Story Part 55

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."

--_Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading_.

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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head. 507 T.J., 504 G.B.

"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn, Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed. 257 S.A.

"Her children shall rise up to bless her name, And wish her harmless length of days, The mighty mother of a mighty brood."

--_Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July_.

He Who Runs may Read. 392 S.A.

"Perchance more careful whoso runs may read, Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran."

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Herod of Jewry. 45 L.J.

"Let me have a child to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage."

--_Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1:2_.

High as Haman. 73 T.J.

"Will hang as high as Haman."

--_Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1_.

A h.o.a.ry Head is a Crown of Glory. 502 G.B.

"Honoured and even fair, Shines in the eye of the mind the crown of the silver hair."

--_Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H_.

A House Divided Against Itself. 171 L.J.

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'

I believe this Government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided."

--_Lincoln, Speech before the Illinois State Convention, June 16, 1858_.

House not Made with Hands. 506 L.J.

"His holy places may not be of stone, Nor made with hands, yet fairer far than aught By artist feigned or pious ardor reared, Fit altars for who guards inviolate G.o.d's chosen seat, the sacred form of man."

--_Lowell, The Cathedral_.

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The House on the Sand. 118 L.J.