The Bible Story Part 58

My Brother's Keeper. 22 T.J.

"If not in word only, but in face of truth, he undoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly his brother's keeper."

--_Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence_.

My Cup Runneth Over. 35 S.A.

"Through this concession my full cup runs o'er."

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

My Name is Legion. 139 L.J.

"Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's Brood?"

--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8_.

Noah's Ark. 24 T.J.

"n.o.bler is a limited command Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive t.i.tle, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."

--_Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel_.

The n.o.bleman's Son. 92 L.J.

"We do not need Christ's visible presence to cope with the evils of our times any more than the father needed it for the cure of his boy."

--_Wm. M. Taylor_.

Now through a Gla.s.s Darkly, then Face to Face. 425 S.A.

"I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar."

--_Tennyson, Crossing the Bar_.

O Generation of Vipers. 65 L.J.

"Is love a generation of vipers?"

--_Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1_.

The Olive Leaf. 30 T.J.

"One final deluge to surprise the Ark Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top: Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo, Back with the olive in her bill for news Sorrow was over?"

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings 22 S.A., 237 L.J.

"He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."

--_Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1_.

The Pale Horse. 470 S.A.

"Behind her Death, Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet On his pale horse."

--_Milton, Paradise Lost_.

Parting of the Waters 184 H.T.

"All things are fitly cared for and the Lord Will watch as kindly o'er the exodus Of us his servants now, as in old time.

We have no cloud or fire, and haply we May not pa.s.s dry-shod through the ocean stream; But, saved or lost, all things are in his hand."

--_Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain_.

Peace, be Still. 136 L.J.

"There are prayers that will plead with the storm when it raves, And whisper 'Be still!' to the turbulent waves."

--_Holmes, Farewell_.

The Peacemakers. 105 L.J.

"I perceived Near me as 'twere the waving of a wing, That fanned my face, and whispered: 'Blessed they, The peace-makers: they know not evil wrath."

--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.

Pentecost. 325 L.J.

"Hereafter thou, fulfilling Pentecost Must learn to speak the tongues of all the world."

--_Tennyson, Sir John Oldcastle_.

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Peter's Denial. 270 L.J.

"Treble denial of the tongue of flesh Like Peter's when he fell."

--_Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 1_.

Peter's Sheet. 354 L.J.

"White as the great white sheet that Peter saw in his vision, By the four corners let down and descending out of the heavens."

--_Longfellow, Elizabeth_.

Pharaoh's Kine 104 H.T.

"If to be fat be to be hated then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved."

--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:3_.

Picking up the Fragments. 147 L.J.

"The immigrants that come to us ought to have plenty of bread to eat and enough fragments left over to be worth picking up, for while in the bread is the living, in the fragments is the life. To them America means economic fragments."

--_Edward A. Steiner_.

Pillar of Salt. 36 H. T.

"One looks close for the glance forward in the eyes, which distinguishes such pillars from the pillars, not of flesh, but of salt, whose eyes are set backwards."

--_Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia_.