The Poor Ye Have Always with You. 230 L.J.

"Yet Thy poor endure, And are with us yet."

--_Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones_.

Possess the Land 244, 278 H. T.

"There is a loud call for courageous idealists and brave fighters to stand forth and summon other men to go forward and possess the land of a better social order. The giants of greed and the walls of difficulty cannot be allowed to shut us out nor to frighten us away."

--_Charles Reynolds Brown_.

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The Potter's Clay 301 S.A.

"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps Of doubt and horror,--what to say Or think,--this awful secret sway, The potter's power over the clay!

Of the same lump (it has been said).

For honour and dishonour made, Two sister vessels."

--_Rossetti, Jenny_.

The Precious Ointment 230, 169 L.J.

"One Mary bathes the blessed feet With ointment from her eyes, With spikenard one, and both are sweet, For both are sacrifice."

--_Lowell, G.o.dminster Chimes_.

Prince of Peace. 278 S.A.

"No trumpet-blast profaned The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No b.l.o.o.d.y streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn."

--_Bryant, Christmas in 1875_.

The Print of the Nails. 306 L.J.

"Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns, And to thy life were not denied The wounds in the hands and feet and side."

--_Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal_.

The Prodigal's Portion. 203 L.J.

"What prodigal portion have I spent that I should stand to such penury?"

--_Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1_.

Prodigal Son. 203 L.J.

"Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reach The door he seeks, forgetful of his sin, Longing to clasp him in a father's arms, And seal his pardon with a pitying tear."

--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.

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The Promised Land 268 H.T.

"With foretaste of the Land of Promise."

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Put not Your Trust in Princes. 170 S.A.

"O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."

--_Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2_.

Render unto Caesar the Things That are Caesar's. 240 L.J.

"A kindly rendering Of 'Render unto Caesar.'"

--_Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2_.

Repent Ye. 65 L.J.

"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance."

--_Lincoln_.

Return Good for Evil. 416 S.A.

"With a piece of Scripture Tell them that G.o.d bids do good for evil."

--_Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3_.

The Scarlet Thread in the Window 282 H.T.

"No Rahab thread, For blushing token of the spy's success."

--_Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country_.

A Serpent in Eden. 19 T.J.

"We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens."

--_Goethe_.

Shake Off the Dust That is under Your Feet. 143 L.J.

"So from my feet the dust Of the proud World I shook."

--_Lowell, The Search_.

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The Sheep and the Goats. 246 L.J.

"Some great cause, G.o.d's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light."

--_Lowell, The Present Crisis_.

The Silver Cord. 246 S.A.

"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?

Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost") Lets us from heaven to h.e.l.l,--one chop we're loose!"

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Slaughter of the Innocents. 45 L.J.