The Science of a New Life

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J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1916 - 412 pages
 

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Page 161 - Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
Page 203 - Honour to all the brave and true; \ everlasting honour to brave old Knox, one of the truest of the true ! That, in the moment while he and his cause, amid civil broils, in convulsion and confusion, were still but struggling for life, he sent the schoolmaster forth to all corners, and said, " Let the people be taught :" this is but one, and indeed an inevitable and comparatively inconsiderable item in his great message to men.
Page 161 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Page 114 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 338 - Frequently a superficial erosion ; not involving the whole thickness of the skin or mucous membrane, of a red color and nearly on a level with the surrounding surface. Sometimes an ulcer, when its Edges are sloping, hard, often elevated, and adhere closely to subjacent tissues. Surface hollowed or scooped out, smooth, sometimes grayish at centre. Induration firm, cartilaginous, circumscribed, movable upon tissues beneath. Sometimes resembles a layer of parchment lining the sore. Generally persistent...
Page 121 - If a young man wished to undergo the acutest sexual suffering, he could adopt no more certain method than to propose to be incontinent, with the avowed intention of becoming continent again, when he had " sown his wild oats." The agony of breaking off a habit which so rapidly entwines itself with every fibre of the human frame is such that it would not be too much to say to any youth commencing a career of vice — " You are going a road on which you will never turn back.
Page 202 - A country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has ' made a step from which it cannot retrograde.' Thought, conscience, the sense that man is denizen of a universe, creature of an eternity, has penetrated to the remotest cottage, to the simplest heart. Beautiful and awful, the feeling of a heavenly behest, of duty god-commanded, overcanopies all life. There is an inspiration in such a people: one may say in a more special...
Page 183 - The eyea are prominent, but the lids, from being still rudimentary, do not cover the eyeball ; the nose forms an obtuse eminence ; the nostrils are rounded and separated ; the mouth is gaping, and the epidermis can be distinguished from the true skin. At ten weeks, the...
Page 384 - And, if I could tell you all, you would see how GOD' HAS DONE ALL, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I HAVE NEVER REFUSED GOD ANYTHING...
Page 345 - Patients will tell you that they cannot control their dreams. This is not true. Those who have studied the connection between thoughts during waking hours and dreams during sleep know that they are closely connected. The character is the same sleeping or waking. It is not surprising that, if a man has allowed his thoughts during the day to rest upon libidinous subjects, he should find his mind at night full of lascivious dreams...

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