{"1": {"fulltext": "mm\\nk-g-Mack.", "height": "4914", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nSh. ltLpRv..) C I\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "FOR HIS SAKE", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "FOR HIS SAKE\\nThoughts for Easter Day and\\nEvery Day\\nEDITED BY\\nANNA E. MACK\\nEditor of Because I Love You and\\nHeaven s Distant Lamps\\nBOSTON\\nLEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS\\n1900", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "45399\\njl_ibrury of Co no\\npwi Cuphs Reecho\\nSEP 10 1900\\nC\u00c2\u00abf jf right fry\\nLkJAtm...\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDf Kvwod to\\nORDW DIVISION,\\nSEP 12 tu\\nCopyright, 1900, by Anna E. Mack.\\nAll rights reserved.\\nFor His Sake.\\n7457g\\nNorwood Press\\nJ. S. Gushing Co. Berwick Smith\\nNorwood Mass. U.S.A.", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Preface\\nA collection of thoughts for Easter Day and\\nevery day, selected from many sources, and brought\\ntogether for the help and inspiration of those who\\nread.\\nPublished for the purpose of furthering the mission\\nwork of the Church in the Diocese of Nebraska,\\nprimarily the erection of a church building in Teka-\\nmah, Nebraska.\\nANNA E. MACK.\\nTekamah, Neb.", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "A little band of faithful people, hungering for\\nthe regular ministrations of the Church of their love,\\nyet lacking sufficient means to erect a church build-\\ning, have determined to bring about the consumma-\\ntion of their hopes by individual effort, and thus\\nbring a blessing not only upon themselves, but upon\\nthe community in which they live.\\nFor His Sake, and for the furtherance of His\\nwork among men, is the inspiration which prompts\\nthe devoted compiler to send forth this admirable\\ncollection of Christian thoughts. I heartily com-\\nmend the book to the reading public, and trust that\\nthe object for which it is published may be fully\\nrealized.\\nARTHUR L. WILLIAMS,\\nBishop Coadjutor of Nebraska.\\nOmaha, June 22, 1900.\\nVI", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nEaster Angels\\nPage\\nI\\nThe Presence of God\\n7\\nAspirations\\n*5\\nCharacter\\n27\\nInfluence\\n4 1\\nWork for God\\n5i\\nWork for Others\\n59\\nConsecration\\n75\\nTrust\\n85\\nThe Ministry of Sorrow-\\n97\\nFaith and Cheer\\n105\\nHope of the Resurrecti\\non\\n115\\nVlll", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0012.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Easter Angels", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0013.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0014.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Easter Angels\\nGOD hath sent His angels\\nTo the earth again,\\nBringing joyful tidings\\nTo the sons of men.\\nThey who first at Christmas\\nThronged the heavenly way\\nNow beside the tomb-door\\nSit on Easter Day.\\nAngels, sing His triumph\\nAs you sang His birth,\\nChrist the Lord is risen,\\nPeace, good will on earth.\\nIn the dreadful desert,\\nWhere the Lord was tried,\\nThere the faithful angels\\nGathered at His side.\\nAnd when in the garden,\\nGrief and pain and care\\nBowed Him down with anguish,\\nThey were with Him there.\\nAngels, sing His triumph\\nAs you sang His birth,\\nChrist the Lord is risen,\\nPeace, good will on earth.\\n3", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0015.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Yet the Christ they honor\\nIs the same Christ still\\nWho in light and darkness\\nDid His Father s will.\\nAnd the tomb deserted\\nShineth like the sky,\\nSince He passed out from it\\nInto victory.\\nAngels, sing His triumph\\nAs you sang His birth,\\ntt Christ the Lord is risen,\\nPeace, good will on earth.\\nGod has still His angels,\\nHelping at His word,\\nAll His faithful children\\nLike their faithful Lord,\\nSoothing them in sorrow,\\nArming them in strife,\\nOpening wide the tomb-doors,\\nLeading into life.\\nAngels, sing His triumph\\nAs you sang His birth,\\nChrist the Lord is risen,\\nPeace, good will on earth.\\nFather, send Thine angels\\nUnto us, we pray", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0016.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Leave us not to wander,\\nAll along our way.\\nLet them guard and guide us,\\nWheresoe er we be,\\nTill our resurrection\\nBrings us home to Thee.\\nAngels, sing His triumph\\nAs you sang His birth,\\nChrist the Lord is risen,\\nPeace, good will on earth.\\nBISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0017.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0018.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "The Presence of God", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0019.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4760", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0020.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "O GLORIOUS Easter morning\\nO day of peace and light\\nOne precious name adorning\\nWith lilies pure and white,\\nA gladsome message bringing\\nOf love that knows no fear\\nThe sweetest anthem singing\\nu The risen Christ is here.\\nSARAH K. BOLTON.", "height": "4700", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0021.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Hush, I pray you\\nWhat if this friend happened to be God.\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nYe shall find the Babe.\\nOnly a manger, cold and bare,\\nOnly a maiden mild,\\nOnly some shepherds kneeling there,\\nWatching a little Child\\nAnd yet that maiden s arms enfold\\nThe King of Heaven above\\nAnd in the Christ-Child we behold\\nThe Lord of Life and Love.\\nMy Father giveth you the True Bread.\\nOnly an altar high and fair,\\nOnly a white-robed priest,\\nOnly Christ s children kneeling there\\nKeeping the Christmas feast\\nAnd yet beneath the outward sign\\nThe inward Grace is given,\\nHis Presence, Who is Lord Divine\\nAnd King of earth and heaven.\\nA. R. G.\\nThere lives and works a soul in all things\\nAnd that soul is God.\\nWILLIAM COWPER.\\n10", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0022.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "The Christ who came of old to His own\\nAs truly comes to them now,\\nWhere the faithful before His altar throne\\nWith hearts believing bow,\\nEmmanuel, then and now.\\nHARRIET McEWEN KIMBALL.\\nHow silently, how silently,\\nThe wondrous gift is given\\nSo God imparts to human hearts\\nThe blessings of His heaven.\\nNo ear may hear His coming,\\nBut in this world of sin\\nWhere meek souls will receive Him still,\\nThe dear Christ enters in.\\nBISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.\\nSaid Tennyson to his niece I should be\\nsorely afraid to live my life without God s presence\\nbut to feel that He is by my side now just as much\\nas you are, that is the very joy of my heart.\\nAnd evermore beside him on his way\\nThe unseen Christ shall move.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nII", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0023.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Earth s crammed with beauty\\nAnd every common bush afire with God,\\nBut only he who sees takes off his shoes.\\nBROWNING.\\nThat God which ever lives and loves\\nOne God, one law, one element,\\nAnd one far-off divine event,\\nTo which the whole creation moves.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nChrist the one great word\\nWell worth all lang-ua2;e in earth or heaven.\\nPHILIP JAMES BAILEY.\\nNever have we gone out in any journey of the\\nsoul but God was with us.\\nIAN MACLAREN.\\nAnd thev who do their souls no wrong,\\nBut keep at eve the faith of morn,\\nShall daily hear the angel-song\\nTo-day the Prince of Peace is born.\\nJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.\\n12", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0024.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "The conscious presence of the living, loving Christ\\ncan lift us above all trials and difficulties.\\nSpeak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with\\nSpirit can meet,\\nCloser is He than breathing, and nearer than hands\\nand feet.\\nThe best of all is, God is with us.\\nJOHN WESLEY.\\nArt thou fearful of the future Is there\\nin thy heart that vague dread, that thou canst\\nnot define, but which nevertheless torments thee\\nTrust in My Providence, I am present with\\nthee, I know all, and I will never leave thee, nor\\nforsake thee.\\nGOLD DUST.\\nGive all thy thought and care to this that God\\nbe with thee in everything thou doest.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\n*3", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0025.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "If but thou diest day by day\\nTo sins that clog thy homeward way,\\nEach night shall be a grave of care,\\nAnd morn a resurrection fair.\\nAnd daily be thy strength restored\\nBy the dear Presence of thy Lord.\\nLet us learn that we can never be lonely or\\nforsaken in this life. Our Lord has promised,\\nu Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of\\nthe world.\\nDR. MANNING.\\n14", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0026.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Aspirations", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0027.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0028.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Consider the Lilies\\nO LILIES fair, O emblems meet\\nOf Easter, and its bliss,\\nWith angel-hands ye point us on\\nTo higher life than this\\nYe tell us of a Saviour s love\\nWhich prompted Him to die\\nThat He might manifest to us\\nA better world on high.\\nYe speak of strength beyond our own\\nWhich conquers death and sin,\\nAnd opens wide the gate of heaven\\nTo take the ransomed in\\nYe comfort hearts that else might break\\nWith grief too great to bear.\\nBy telling them, friends are not dead,\\nBut waiting for them there.\\nAnd oh what purity and grace\\nDo closely round you cling\\nAs in your gentle spirit-tones\\nYe whisper of the Spring\\nThe happy time when Winter snows\\nGive place to sun and shower\\nWhen God Himself, with tenderness,\\nDoth wake each sleeping flower.\\n17", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0029.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Easter lilies, fresh and fair,\\nWe welcome you again,\\nAs stars of hope to lead us on\\nThrough sorrow s night of pain\\nBy you the Spirit speaks to those\\nWho will the message hear,\\nOf resurrection power and love,\\nIn this the wakening year.\\nCHARLOTTE MURRAY.\\nA Legend\\nThere has come to my mind a legend, a thing I\\nhad half forgot,\\nAnd whether I read it or dreamed it, ah well, it\\nmatters not.\\nIt said that in Heaven at twilight a great bell softly\\nswings,\\nAnd man may listen and hearken to the wonderful\\nmusic that rings,\\nIf he put from the heart s inner chamber all the\\npassion, pain, and strife,\\nHeartache and weary longing, that throb in the pulses\\nof life,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIf he thrust from his soul all hatred, all thoughts of\\nwicked things,\\nHe can hear in the holy twilight how the bell of the\\nangel rings.\\n18", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0030.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "And I think there is in this legend, if we open our\\neyes to see,\\nSomewhat of an inner meaning, my friend, to you and\\nme.\\nLet us look in our hearts, and question, can pure\\nthoughts enter in\\nTo a soul, if it be already the dwelling of thoughts of\\nsin\\nOh, then let us ponder a little let us look in our\\nhearts and see\\nIf the twilight bells of the angels could ring for us,\\nyou and me.\\nfy ROSE OSBORNE.\\nThe ideal life, the life of full completion haunts us\\nall. We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath\\nthe thing we are.\\nBuild thee more stately mansions, O my soul,\\nAs the swift seasons roll\\nLeave thy low vaulted past\\nLet each new temple, nobler than the last,\\nShut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,\\nTill thou at length art free,\\nLeaving thine outgrown shell by life s\\nunresting sea\\nOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.\\n19", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0031.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "O for a man to arise in me,\\nThat the man that I am\\nMay cease to be.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nYes I dragged wearily along, passivelv\\n::ed the Man-I-Am between the Man-I-\\nMight-Have-Been and the Man-I-Yet-Mav-Be. But\\nnow, to-dav, I feel that with Christ s help all things\\nare possible t mirations, the energy and courage\\nthat are thrilling in me in this beautiful new-born life\\nof to-dav, and the Man-I-Yet-May-Be drav\\nto my side.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a- F\\nI hold it truth with him who s\\none clear harp in diverse tor.e^.\\nThat men mav rise on stepping-stones\\nOr their dead s gher things.\\nD, LORD TENNYSON.\\n;e mv mortal dreams come true\\nthe work I fain would do\\nClothe with life the weak intent,\\nLet me be the thin.; I meant.\\nJOHN G: 7TIER.\\n23", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0032.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Beauty and Truth and all that these contain\\nDrop not like ripened fruit about our feet;\\nWe climb to them through years of sweat and pain.\\nJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.\\nNo star is ever lost we once have seen,\\nWe always may be what we might have been.\\nADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.\\nLook not mournfully into the Past. It comes not\\nback again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.\\nGo forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear\\nand with a manly heart.\\nSo nigh is grandeur to the dust,\\nSo near is God to man,\\nWhen duty whispers low, Thou must,\\nThe youth replies, can.\\nRALPH WALDO EMERSON.\\nLet each man do his best.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nBe not simply good, but good for something.\\n21", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0033.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "They are slaves who fear to speak\\nFor the fallen and the weak;\\nThey are slaves who will not choose\\nHatred, scoffing, and abuse,\\nRather than in silence shrink\\nFrom the truth they needs must think;\\nThey are slaves who dare not be\\nIn the right with two or three.\\nJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.\\nTry to do something in the world, and you will be\\nsomething, aim at excellence, and excellence will be\\nattained. This is the great secret of success and\\neminence. I cannot do it never accomplished\\nanything. I will try has wrought wonders.\\nThe men\\nWho carry out in act their great designs\\nAre few in number.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nMany a stately ship lies shattered\\nUnderneath the sounding seas\\nBut the grass upon the hillside\\nWaves o er sadder wrecks than these.\\n22", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0034.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "The life of every man is a diary in which he\\nmeans to write one story, and writes another and\\nhis humblest hour is when he compares the volume\\nas it is with what he vowed to make it.\\nJAMES M. BARRIE.\\nO pray the prayer of Plato old,\\nGod, make me beautiful within.\\nNow, believe me, God hides some ideal in every\\nhuman soul. At some time in our life we feel a\\ntrembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.\\nLife finds its noblest spring of excellence in this\\nhidden impulse to do our best. There is a time\\nwhen we are not content to be such merchants, or\\ndoctors, or lawyers as we see on the dead level\\nor below it. The woman longs to glorify her\\nwomanhood as sister, wife, or mother.\\nHere is God, God standing silently at the door\\nall day long, God whispering to the soul, that to\\nbe pure and true is to succeed in life, and whatever\\nwe get short of that will burn up like stubble, though\\nthe whole world try to save it.\\nROBERT COLLYER.\\n2 3", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0035.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "There are two angels, that attend unseen\\nEach one of us, and in great books record\\nOur good and evil deeds. He who writes down\\nThe good ones, after every action closes\\nHis volume and ascends with it to God.\\nThe other keeps his dreadful day-book open\\nTill sunset, that we may repent which doing,\\nThe record of the action fades away,\\nAnd leaves a line of white across the page.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nLetting go the unworthy things that meet us\\npretence, worry, discontent, and self-seeking and\\ntaking loyal hold of time, work, present happiness,\\nlove, duty, friendship, sorrow, and faith, let us so\\nlive in all truth as to be an inspiration, strength, and\\nblessing to those whose lives are touched by ours.\\nANNA ROBERTSON BROWN.\\nAll great ages have been ages of belief. I mean,\\nwhen there was any extraordinary power of perform-\\nance, when great national movements began, when\\narts appeared, when heroes existed, when poems were\\nmade, the human soul was in earnest.\\nRALPH WALDO EMERSON.\\n24", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0036.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "It is very good for strength\\nTo know that some one needs you to be strong.\\nELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.\\nThe cry of the human heart in all ages and in every\\nmoment is, Where is God and how shall I find\\nHim\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nIf we can only get out of our souls the thought\\nthat it matters not if we are happy or sorrowful,\\nif only we are dutiful, and faithful, and brave, and\\nstrong, then we should be in the atmosphere, we\\nshould be in the great company, of the Christ.\\nBISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.\\nThere is nothing worth living for but God.\\nPISHOP WILLIAM E. McLAREN.\\nYet with hands by evil stained,\\nAnd an ear by discord pained,\\nI am groping for the keys\\nOf the heavenly harmonies.\\nStill within my heart I bear\\nLove for all things good and fair.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\n25", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0037.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Oh, be at least able to sav in that dav, Lord, I\\nam no hero. I have been careless, cowardly, some-\\ntimes all but mutinous. Punishment I have deserved;\\nI deny it not. But a traitor I have never been a\\ndeserter I have never been. I have tried to tight on\\nThv side in Thv battle against evil. I have tried to\\ndo the dutv which lav nearest me, and to leave what-\\never Thou didst commit to mv charge a little better\\nthan I found it. I have not been good, but I have at\\nleast tried to be good. Take the will for the deed,\\ngood Lord. Strike not mv unworthv name off the\\nroll-call of the noble and victorious armv, which is\\nthe blessed companv of all faithful people and let\\nme, too, be found written in the Book of Life, even\\nthough I stand the lowest and last upon its list. Amen.\\nCHARLES KING5LEY.\\n*26", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0038.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Character", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0039.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0040.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "IF you would make men honest or pure, or in any\\nway great, tell them of the dignity of their being\\nopen before their eyes the vast prospects of the eter-\\nnity which awaits them, in that Kingdom into which\\ncan enter nothing that defileth or maketh a lie,\\nyet into which they may enter if they only will.\\nXell them of the exceeding greatness of God s power\\nat this moment to usward, which He wrought in\\nChrist when He raised Him from the dead, the power\\nof the Resurrection.\\n29", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0041.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Building\\nWe are building every day\\nIn a good or evil way,\\nAnd the structure, as it grows,\\nWill our inmost self disclose,\\nTill in every arch and line\\nAll our faults and failings shine\\nIt may grow a castle grand,\\nOr a wreck upon the sand.\\nDo you ask what building this,\\nThat can show both pain and bliss,\\nThat can be both dark and fair\\nLo, its name is Character\\nBuild it well whate er you do\\nBuild it straight and strong and true\\nBuild it clear and high and broad\\nBuild it for the eye of God.\\nI. E. DIEKENGA.\\nA hundred years hence what difference will it\\nmake whether you were rich or poor, a peer or a\\npeasant But what difference may it not make\\nwhether you did what was right or what was wrong\\n3\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0042.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "I may not be great, I may miss all peace, but I\\nwill be true.\\nHowe er it be, it seems to me,\\nTis only noble to be good.\\nKind hearts are more than coronets,\\nAnd simple faith than Norman blood.\\nA king may knight a knave, but God\\nWill still record him but a clod\\nThe student of the Scripture reads,\\nMan is but nobled by his deeds.\\nSUSIE M. BEST.\\nTo thine own self be true,\\nAnd it must follow as the night the day,\\nThou canst not then be false to any man.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nWhatever anybody else does or says, I must be\\ngood just as if the emerald were to be always say-\\ning, Whatever anybody else does or says, must be\\nemerald and keep my color.\\nAll in their life-time carve their own soul s statue.\\nTHOMAS BUCHANAN READ.\\n3 1", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0043.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "The question every morning is not how to do the\\ngainful thing, but how to do the just thing.\\nJOHN RUSKIN.\\nHe that wrongs his friend\\nWrongs himself more, and ever bears about\\nA silent court of justice in his breast,\\nHimself the judge and jury, and himself\\nThe prisoner at the bar, ever condemned.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nNot the wrongs done to us harm us, only those we\\ndo to others.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nMay you never, never have to say,\\nMy father had not been bowed so low,\\nNor my mother left us long ago,\\nBut for deeds of my misdoing.\\nPHCEBE CARY.\\nWhy come temptations but for man to meet\\nAnd master and make crouch beneath his feet\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nNo chain is stronger than its weakest link.\\n32", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0044.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "We would willingly have others perfect and yet\\nwe amend not our own faults.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nWhen the fight begins within himself\\nA man s worth something.\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nGo forth and be the thing God made you to be.\\nNor may man on his shield\\nEver rest, for his foe is forever afield,\\nDanger ever at hand, till the arm d Archangel\\nSound o er him the trump of earth s final evangel.\\nOWEN MEREDITH,\\nWe live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths,\\nIn feelings, not in figures on a dial.\\nWe should count time by heart throbs. He most lives\\nWho thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.\\nPHILIP JAMES BAILEY.\\nDo noble things, not dream them all day long\\nAnd so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever\\nOne grand, sweet song.\\nCHARLES KINGSLKY.\\n33", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0045.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Not for thine own\\nBut others weal, thou bcarest fruit;\\nThy gain is in thy deeper root,\\nIn twining branches stronger grown.\\nw. M. L. JAY.\\nTalent shapes itself in stillness character in the\\ntumult of the world.\\nGOETHE.\\nI count life just a stuff\\nTo try the soul s strength on, educe the man.\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nLike as a star\\nThat maketh not haste,\\nThat taketh not rest,\\nBe each one fulfilling\\nHis God-giyen best.\\nHeaven s gates are not so highly areh d\\nAs princes palaces they that enter there\\nMust go upon their knees.\\nWEBSTER.\\nHumility and toil are the two uprights of the\\nladder by which we ascend to Paradise.\\nS. BERNARD.\\n34", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0046.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Heaven s not gained by a single bound,\\nBut we build the ladder by which we rise\\nFrom the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,\\nAnd we mount to its summit round by round.\\nJ. G. HOLLAND.\\nTo reach the port of heaven we must sail some-\\ntimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But\\nwe must sail, and not drift nor lie at anchor.\\nOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.\\nHe only is advancing in life, whose heart is get-\\nting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker,\\nwhose spirit is entering into living peace.\\nJOHN RUSKIN.\\nFollow the Christ, the King,\\nLive pure, speak true, right wrong.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nBe always true to the Divine Light that is within\\nyou, and never turn aside to the right hand, nor to\\nthe left, from following after Jesus.\\nREV. LEWIS T. WATTSON.\\nIf religion has done nothing for your temper, it has\\ndone nothing for your soul.\\nCLAYTON.\\n35", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0047.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "For lo in hidden deep accord\\nThe servant may be like his Lord.\\nAnd Thy love, our love shining through,\\nMay tell the world that Thou art true,\\nTill those who see us see Thee too.\\nANNA LiETITIA WARING.\\nThere has been lodged in the conscience of this\\ncentury a sense of the obligation resting upon the\\ndisciple to imitate and reproduce the character of his\\nMaster.\\nREV. GEORGE A. GORDON.\\nJesus and His apostles teach that the supreme\\nsuccess of life is not to escape pain, but to lay hold\\non righteousness, not to possess, but to be holy, not\\nto get things from God, but to be like God.\\nIAN MACLAREN.\\nThe chief end of a Christian life is to be refash-\\nioned into character-likeness to the Lord Jesus.\\nBISHOP WILLIAM E. McLAREN.\\nu Love is the fulfilling of the law. It is the rule\\nfor fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for\\nkeeping all the old commandments, Christ s one\\nsecret of the Christian life.\\nHENRY DRUMMOND.\\n36", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0048.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "For the structure that we raise\\nTime is with materials filled.\\nOur to-days and yesterdays\\nAre the blocks with which we build.\\nHENRY W. LONGFELLOW.\\nMy business is not to remake myself, but to make\\nthe absolute best of what God made.\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nBlameless, loving lives befit the children of a\\nKing whose name is Love. Are they gentle, lowly,\\nhumble-minded? Is every action an action of love\\nto Him\\nThe true calling of a Christian is not to do\\nextraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an\\nextraordinary way.\\nDEAN STANLEY.\\nIt does not matter whether you preach in West-\\nminster Abbey, or teach a ragged class, so you be\\nfaithful. The faithfulness is all.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nIt is possible to live very near to God under every\\nconceivable environment, and what is possible is our\\nhighest duty.\\nBISHOP WILLIAM E. McLARKN.\\n37", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0049.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "It is a blessed simplicity when a man leaves the\\ndifficult ways of questions and disputings, and goes\\nforward in the plain and firm path of God s com-\\nmandments.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nLooking upward every day,\\nSunshine on our faces,\\nPressing onward every day\\nToward the heavenly places.\\nWalking every day more close\\nTo our Elder Brother,\\nGrowing every day more true\\nUnto one another.\\nLeaving every day behind\\nSomething which might hinder,\\nRunning swifter every day,\\nGrowing purer, kinder.\\nNo man can become a saint in his sleep and to\\nfulfil the condition required demands a certain amount\\nof prayer and meditation and time, just as improve-\\nment in any direction, bodily or mental, requires\\npreparation and care.\\nHENRY DRUMMOND.\\n38", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0050.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Speak a shade more kindly than the year before,\\nPray a little oftener, love a little more y\\nCling a little closer to the Father s love\\nLife below will liker grow to the life above.\\nGrant to us, Lord, we beseech Thee, the spirit\\nto think and do always such things as are right that\\nwe who cannot do anything that is good without\\nThee, may by Thee be enabled to live according to\\nThy will y through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\\n39", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0051.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0052.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Influence", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0053.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0054.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "THE Easter praise may falter\\nAnd die with the Easter Day\\nThe blossoms that brighten the altar\\nIn sweetness may fade away\\nBut after the silence and fading\\nLingers a blessing unpriced\\nAbove all changing and shading\\nThe love of the living Christ.\\nFor the living Christ is loving,\\nAnd the loving Christ is alive\\nHis life hidden in us is moving\\nUs ever to pray and strive.\\nM. L. DICKINSON.\\n43", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0055.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Whate er thou West, man,\\nThat, too, become thou must\\nGod, if thou lovest God,\\nDust, if thou lovest dust.\\nA D l62 _ ANGELUS SILESIUS.\\nIt exalteth a man from earthly things to love\\nthose that are heavenly.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nThis work of his is great and wonderful\\nHis very face with change of heart is changed.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nWhere er a noble deed is wrought,\\nWhere er is spoken a noble thought,\\nOur hearts in glad surprise\\nTo higher levels rise.\\nThe tidal wave of deeper souls\\nInto our inmost being rolls,\\nAnd lifts us unawares\\nOut of all meaner cares.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nBe noble, and the nobleness that lies\\nIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,\\nWill rise in majesty to meet thine own.\\nJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.\\n44", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0056.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "We listened, as all boys in their better moods will\\nlisten, to a man who we felt to be with all his heart\\nand soul and strength striving against whatever was\\nmean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little\\nworld. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving\\nadvice and warning from serene heights to those who\\nwere struggling and sinning below, but the warm,\\nliving voice of one who was fighting for us and by\\nour sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves\\nand one another. And so, wearily and little by little,\\nbut surely and steadily on the whole, was brought\\nhome to the young boy for the first time the meaning\\nof his life that it was no fool s or sluggard s para-\\ndise into which he had wandered by chance, but a\\nbattle-field ordained from of old, where there are no\\nspectators, but the youngest must take his side, and\\nthe stakes are life and death. And he who roused\\nthis consciousness in them, showed them at the same\\ntime, by every word he spoke in the pulpit, and by\\nhis whole daily life, how that battle was to be fought,\\nand stood there before them their fellow-soldier and\\nthe captain of their band.\\nr THOMAS HUGHES.\\nOne example is worth a thousand arguments.\\n_ WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE.\\nYou can only make others better by being good\\nyourself. hugh r. HAWIES.\\n45", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0057.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "More in the garden grows than what is sown,\\nNot weeds alone, but flowers come up unbidden,\\nSown bv the careful wind. So here I mark\\nNot the parched petal, but the vital seed;\\nFor each word dropping from the lip or pen\\nOf man or woman i that dies not,\\nWafted afar, to spring we know not where.\\nHORATIUS BONAR.\\nThe dear L\\nAre humble human souls,\\nThe gospel of a life like h e\\nIs more than books or scrolls.\\nJOHN GREEN LEAF WHITTIER.\\nY D can help vour fellow-men, vou must help your\\nfellow-men but the onlv way vou can help them is\\nbv being the noblest and best man that it is possible\\nfor vou to be.\\nEI5HOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.\\nIt was not anvthing she said\\nIt was not anything she did\\nIt was the movement of her head\\nThe lifting of her lid.\\ntrod her path aright\\nPower from her very garments stole;\\nFor such is the mysterious might\\n_ rants a noble soul.", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0058.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "If our virtues\\nDid not go forth of us twere all alike\\nAs if we had them not.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nEvery man is a missionary now and forever,\\nwhether he intends or designs it or not.\\nDR. CHALMERS.\\nNo stream from its source\\nFlows seaward, how lonely soever its course,\\nBut what some land is gladden d. No star ever rose\\nAnd set without influence somewhere. Who knows\\nWhat earth needs from earth s lowest creatures. No\\nlife\\nCan be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife\\nAnd all life not be purer and stronger thereby.\\nOWEN MEREDITH.\\nA holy life has a voice it speaks when the tongue\\nis silent, and is either a constant attraction or a per-\\npetual reproof.\\nHINTON.\\n47", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0059.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "In our course through life we shall meet the people\\nwho are coming to meet us from many strange places\\nand by many strange roads, and what it is set to us\\nto do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us\\nwill all be done.\\nCHARLES DICKENS, Little Dorrit.\\nI am a part of all that I have met.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nAs I look on you\\nMy heart grows lighter, I behold a man\\nWho lives in an ideal world, apart\\nFrom all the rude collisions of our life\\nIn a calm atmosphere.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nAnd this we may know surely, that no man or\\nwoman of the humblest sort can reallv be strong,\\ngentle, pure, and good without the world being better\\nfor it, without somebody being helped and com-\\nforted by the very existence of that goodness.\\nBISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.\\nHow far that little candle throws his beams\\nSo shines a good deed in a naughty world.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\n4 8", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0060.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "This learned I from the shadow of a tree\\nThat to and fro did sway upon a wall,\\nOur shadow-selves, our influence, may fall\\nWhere we can never be.\\nANNA E. HAMILTON.\\nO pious mother kind, good, brave, and truthful\\nsoul as I have ever found, and more than I have\\never elsewhere found in this world, your poor Tom,\\nlong out of his school days now, has fallen very\\nlonely, very lame and broken in this pilgrimage of\\nhis and you cannot help him, or cheer him by a\\nkind word any more. From your grave in Eccle-\\nfechan Kirkyard, yonder, you bid him trust in God,\\nand that also he will try if he can understand and do.\\nTHOMAS CARLYLE.\\n49", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0061.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0062.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Work for God", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0063.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0064.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Easter Flowers\\nTHEY brought their flowers to the altar,\\nBlossoms of white and red;\\nLilies and violets and roses\\nThe sweetest of perfumes shed\\nAnd none of the rich and mighty\\nWho lavished their gifts that day,\\nTook heed of a child among them\\nWho timidly pressed her way.\\nShe crept up close to the altar,\\nAnd there, neath a lily s crown,\\nWith tender, reverent fingers,\\nShe laid her offering down,\\nAnd said to a curious question,\\nAs the flowers dropped from her hand,\\nu It is only a little daisy,\\nBut God will understand.\\nSweet childish faith Oh, teach us\\nOur little best to give,\\nThough the works of others are greater\\nThan the humble life we live\\nAnd to offer our grateful service\\nForever with loving hand,\\nSafe in the blessed assurance\\nThat God will understand.\\n53", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0065.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "The glory is not in the task, but in\\nThe doing it for Him.\\nJEAN INGELOW.\\nWhatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord\\nand not unto men knowing that of the Lord ye\\nshall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye\\nserve the Lord Christ.\\nCol. iii. 23, 24.\\nShall not the Fashioner command His work\\nAnd who am I, that if He whisper, Rise,\\nGo forth upon Mine errand, should reply\\nI pray Thee, God,\\nHave me excused.\\ng JEAN INGELOW.\\nI heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall\\nI send, and who will go for us Then said I, Here\\nam I, send me.\\nha. vi. 8.\\nLook upon yourself as a hired servant of God, to\\nwhom He has promised a rich reward at the end of\\nthe day He calls life each morning hold yourself in\\nreadiness to obey His commands, in the way He wills,\\nand with the means He appoints.\\nGOLD DUST.\\n54", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0066.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "God gives us always strength enough, and sense\\nenough, for what He wants us to do.\\nJOHN RUSKIN.\\nTo love God is a great thing, to love Him more\\nand more a greater, and to make others love Him so\\ngreat it is a joyous surprise, ever fresh and new every\\nday, that God should let us, such as we are, do so\\ngreat a thing.\\nFREDERICK WILLIAM FABER.\\nBlessed are they who die for God,\\nAnd earn the martyr s crown of light,\\nYet he who lives for God may be\\nA greater conqueror in His sight.\\nADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.\\nExpect great things from God\\nAttempt great things for God.\\nOh, the long, long years are flown,\\nSince a Master bade His own\\nBear the message far and wide\\nOf a Saviour crucified\\nFlash the light o er vale and hill,\\nYet they sit in darkness still.\\n55\\nCAREY.", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0067.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "The question is not what must I do, but what\\nI do. Love trill stop at nothing. It takes\\nB and tea :rr its object over every hill\\nand mountain of difficul:\\nLove and believe for works will follow spontaneous\\nEver as dav does the sun the R m the Good\\nDg\\nLove in a bodilv shape and Christian works are no\\nmore than\\nAnimate Love and Faith, as flowers are the animate\\nSp:\\nHE JRTH LONGFELLOW.\\nI _ id to think\\nI am not bound to make the wrong go right\\nBut onlv to discover and to do,\\n:h cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.\\nN INGELOW.\\nUNLESS we perform divine everv\\nwilli: f our life, we never perform it at alL\\njc:\\n56", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0068.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Yea yea a look the fainting heart may break\\nOr make it whole\\nAnd just one word, if said for love s sweet sake,\\nMay save a soul.\\nMAY RILEY SMITH.\\nAre there none to die for Israel\\nTis not enough to mourn. Breastplate and harness\\nAre better things than sackcloth.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nThe old order changeth, yielding place to new,\\nAnd God fulfils Himself in many ways.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nBy many hands the work of God is done.\\nRICHARD LE GALLIENNE.\\nWorship or service which? Ah, that is best\\nTo which He calls me, be it toil or rest,\\nTo labor for Him in life s busy stir,\\nOr seek His feet a silent worshipper.\\n57", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0069.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "The Common Ottering\\no\\nIt is not the deed we do,\\nTho 1 the deed be never so fair,\\nBut the love that the deal Lord looketh for,\\nHidden with holv care\\nIn the heart of the deed so fair.\\nThe love is the priceless thing,\\nThe treasure our treasure must hold,\\nOr ever our Lord will take the gift,\\nOr tell the worth of the gold,\\nBv the love that cannot be told.\\nthe rich and the poor\\nDear Lord in thv service draw near;\\nOne consecrateth a precious coin,\\nOne droppeth onlv a tear;\\nL: k, Master, the love is he\\n.RIET McEWEN KIMBALL.\\nTe~ ter, whom I serve,\\nThough so feeblv and so ill,\\n.d and heart and nerve\\nAll Thv bidding to fulfil\\nOpen Thou mine eves to see\\nAll the work Thou hast for me.\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0070.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Work for Others", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0071.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0072.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "o\\nPH, let me know\\nThe power of Thy resurrection\\nOh, let me show\\nThy risen life in calm and clear reflection\\nOh, let me give\\nOut of the gifts Thou freely givest\\nOh, let me live\\nWith life abundantly because Thou livest.\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.\\n61", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0073.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister.\\nMark x. 45.\\nNot to be served, O Lord, but to serve man\\nAll that I can,\\nAnd as I minister unto his need\\nServe Thee indeed.\\nSo runs the law of love that hath been given,\\nTo make earth Heaven.\\nWALTER C. SMITH.\\nAn arm of aid to the weak,\\nA friendlv hand to the friendless,\\nKind words so short to speak,\\nBut whose echo is endless,\\nThe world is wide, these things are small,\\nThey may be nothing, but thev are all\\nRICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.\\nLove God and love one another Is that all\\nThat we have known from our youth up. Yet\\nis there nothing else to say\\nRICHARD LE GALLIENNE.\\nAs we have therefore opportunitv, let us do good\\nunto all men.\\nGal. vi. 10.\\n62", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0074.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Have love not love alone for one\\nBut man as man thy brother call,\\nAnd scatter like the circling sun\\nThy charities on all.\\nFREDERICK SCHILLER.\\nAh, when shall all men s good\\nBe each man s rule, and universal Peace\\nLie like a shaft of light across the land\\nAnd like a lane of beams athwart the sea.\\nThere is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or\\nbehavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain\\naround us.\\nRALPH WALDO EMERSON.\\nI shall pass through this world but once. Any\\ngood thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness\\nthat I can show to any human being, let me do it\\nnow. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall\\nnot pass this way again.\\nLife is short, and we have never too much time\\nfor gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling\\nthe same dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to\\nlove Make haste to be kind\\namiel.\\n63", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0075.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "The character of God s goodness is communica-\\ntive. He is always communicating Himself to His\\ncreatures in nature, in grace, in glorv. We must\\ncopy this example. There is no such thing as\\nselrlsh goodness, thinking only about ourselves and\\nour own souls.\\nFREDERICK WILLIAM FABER.\\nNo man can work worthily in this world of God s\\nunless there burn in him the stimulating fire of some\\ngreat and clear conviction.\\nRICHARD A. ARMSTRONG.\\nBut thou go forth and do thy deed,\\nIn forest and in town,\\nNor sis;h for ease while pain and need\\nAre plucking at thv gown.\\nKATHARINE LEE BATES.\\nThe poor are our friends, and according to the\\nSpanish proverb, M When a friend asketh there is no\\nto-morro\\nLADY LINDSAY.\\nGod puts within our reach the power of helpful-\\nness, the ministry of pity.\\nFRANCIS PAGET.\\n64", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0076.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Make a rule, and pray God to help you to keep\\nit, never, if possible, to lie down at night without\\nbeing able to say, I have made one human being, at\\nleast, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better\\nthis day.\\nCHARLES KINGSLEY.\\nIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life\\nof any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked\\nwith God.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nThe greatest thing, says some one, a man can\\ndo for his Heavenly Father is, to be kind to some of\\nHis other children.\\nHENRY DRUMMOND.\\nNothing is impossible there are ways which lead\\nto everything, and if we had sufficient will we should\\nalways have sufficient means.\\nI have no mission, said Clara Barton, years ago,\\nbut I have always had more work lying about my\\nfeet than I could do.\\n65", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0077.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "The only way to regenerate the world is to do the\\nduty which lies nearest us.\\nCHARLES KINGSLEY.\\nDo all the good you can, in all the ways you can,\\nto whomsoever you can, as long as God permits you\\nto live in this world.\\nAll worldly joys go less\\nThan the one joy of doing kindnesses.\\nGEORGE HERBERT.\\nThere is no higher dignity than that of helpful-\\nness.\\nIf there be some weaker one,\\nGive me strength to help him on\\nIf a blinder soul there be,\\nLet me guide him nearer Thee.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\nMay you never say of a brother dear,\\nDid I do enough to help and cheer\\nDid I try to help and guide him\\nNow the snares of the world about him lie,\\nAnd if unhonored he live and die,\\nI shall wish I were dead beside him.\\nPHCEBE CARY.\\n66", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0078.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Kind words are the music of the world. They\\nhave a power which seems to be beyond natural\\ncauses, as if they were some angel s song which had\\nlost its way and come on earth. It seems as if they\\ncould almost do what in reality God alone can do\\nsoften the hard and angry hearts of men. No one\\nwas ever corrected by a sarcasm crushed, perhaps,\\nif the sarcasm was clever enough but drawn nearer\\nto God, never.\\nFREDERICK WILLIAM FABER.\\nA touch, a tender word, no more\\nA face that lingers by the door,\\nTo turn and smile, a fond word said,\\nA kiss these things make heaven, and yet\\nWe do neglect, refuse, forget,\\nTo give that little ere tis fled,\\nAh, me ah, me\\nAnd sad hearts go uncomforted.\\nA kind word, a gentle act, a modest demeanor, a\\nloving smile, are as so many seeds that we can scatter\\nevery moment of our lives, and which will always\\nspring up and bear fruit.\\ngold DUST.\\n67", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0079.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Only\\nOnly a seed but it chanced to fall\\nIn a little cleft of a city wall,\\nAnd taking root, grew bravely up\\nTill a tiny blossom crowned its top.\\nOnly a thought but the work it wrought\\nCould never by tongue or pen be taught\\nFor it ran through a life like a thread of gold,\\nAnd the life bore fruit a hundred fold.\\nOnly a word but twas spoken in love,\\nWith a whispered prayer to the Lord above\\nAnd the angels in heaven rejoiced once more,\\nFor a new-born soul entered in by the door.\\nFriends, in this world of hurry,\\nAnd work, and sudden end,\\nIf a thought comes quick of doing\\nA kindness to a friend,\\nDo it that very moment\\nDon t put it off don t wait\\nWhat s the use of doing a kindness\\nIf you do it a day too late\\n68", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0080.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Do the work that s nearest,\\nThough it s dull at whiles,\\nHelping when you meet them,\\nLame dogs over stiles.\\nCHARLES KINGSLEY.\\nAnd this thought will be our comfort\\nThat if only we will bear\\nOne another s burdens gladly,\\nChrist Himself the weight will share.\\nHe will note each kindly effort,\\nAnd will cheer us all the while\\nWith the gladness and the sunshine\\nOf His tender, loving smile.\\nCHARLOTTE MURRAY.\\nNever let the seeming worthlessness of sympathy\\nmake you keep back that sympathy of which, when\\nmen are suffering around you, your heart is full. Go\\nand give it without asking yourself whether it is worth\\nwhile to give it. It is too sacred a thing for you to\\ntell what it is worth. God, from whom it comes,\\nsends it through you to His needy child.\\nBISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS.\\nHave a loving care for others God will have a\\nloving care for thee.\\n6 9", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0081.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "If thou art blest\\nThen let the sunshine of thv gladness rest\\nOn the dark edges of each cloud that lies\\nBlack in thy brother s skies.\\nIf thou art sad,\\nStill be thou in thv brother s gladness glad.\\nANNA E. HAMILTON.\\nLook up and not down,\\nLook forward and not back,\\nLook out and not in\\nLend a hand.\\nEDWARD EVERETT HALE.\\nThy business is mine and mine thine, if there is\\na ghost of a chance that we can either of us help\\nthe other.\\nThose who bring sunshine to the lives of others\\ncannot keep it from themselves.\\nJAMES M. BARRIE.\\nHow lovely are the messengers that teach us the\\ngospel of peace. To all the nations is gone forth the\\nsound of their words; throughout all the lands their\\nglad tidings.\\nMENDELSSOHN, Oratorio of St. Paul.\\n7\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0082.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Blessing she is God made her so,\\nAnd deeds of week-day holiness\\nFall from her noiseless as the snow\\nNor hath she ever chanced to know\\nThat aught were easier than to bless.\\nJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.\\nPerhaps at the Last Day all that will remain\\nworth recording of a life full of activity and zeal,\\nwill be those little deeds that were done solely beneath\\nthe eye of God.\\nJ GOLD DUST.\\nThat best portion of a good man s life,\\nHis little nameless unremembered acts\\nOf kindness and of love.\\nWILLIAM WORDSWORTH.\\nSow with a generous hand\\nPause not for toil or pain\\nSow and look onward, upward\\nYou shall reap in joy the harvest\\nYou have sown to-day in tears.\\nADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.\\n7*", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0083.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "What a gladness in the glory of the better land to\\nknow,\\nThat some poor, waiting, longing, doubting, fearing\\nsouls below,\\nIn our gracious human loving, we the love of God\\ndid show.\\nThe Sower\\nSow in the morn thy seed,\\nAt eve hold not thv hand\\nTo doubt and fear give thou no heed,\\nBroadcast it o er the land\\nBeside all waters sow,\\nThe highway furrows stock,\\nDrop it where thorns and thistles grow,\\nDrop it upon the rock.\\nThe good, the fruitful ground\\nExpect not here nor there\\nO er hill and dale and plain tis found,\\nGo forth then, everywhere\\nAnd duly shall appear,\\nIn verdure, beautv, strength,\\nThe tender blade, the stalk, the ear,\\nAnd the full corn at length.\\n72", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0084.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "Thou canst not toil in vain\\nCold, heat, and moist and dry,\\nShall foster and mature the grain\\nFor garners in the sky\\nThen when the glorious end,\\nThe day of God, shall come,\\nThe angel reapers shall descend,\\nAt God s great harvest-home.\\nJAMES MONTGOMERY.\\nBetter to walk the realm unseen\\nThan watch the hour s event\\nBetter the well done at the last\\nThan the air with shoutings rent.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\n73", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0085.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0086.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "Consecration", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0087.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0088.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "M\\nAY the glad dawn\\nOf Easter-morn\\nBring holy joy to thee.\\nMay the calm eve\\nOf Easter leave\\nA peace divine with thee.\\nMay Easter-night\\nOn thine heart write,\\nO Christ, I live for Thee.\\n77", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0089.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Once go forth and live, and love, and move, and\\nspeak, act, and think, all for Jesus, and you need\\nknow no other thought or rule.\\nFREDERICK WILLIAM FABER.\\nLord, in my simple heart I give myself to-day to\\nbe Thy servant ever.\\nJ THOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nThy will nothing more, nothing less, nothing\\nelse.\\nTruly, it is a hard lesson, but if by God s grace\\nwe learn it, we shall find that there is no joy in the\\nworld like the joy of those who have entirely given\\nup the thought of pleasing themselves, and seek only\\nto hear and do the will of God.\\nYOUNG.\\nOther hope had she none, nor wish in life, but to\\nfollow\\nMeekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her\\nSaviour.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nDoing God s will as if it were my own,\\nYet trusting not in mine, but in His strength alone.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\n78", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0090.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "The mark of a saint is not perfection but conse-\\ncration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a\\nman who has given himself without reserve to God.\\nBISHOP WESTCOTT.\\nIt is only the lives hidden in God and to Him\\nwholly consecrated which have power to tell upon\\nthose which lie on a lower level, and to lift them\\nhigher by the very intensity of their own spiritual\\nlove.\\nH. BOWMAN.\\nThat man is very strong and powerful who has\\nno more hopes for himself, who looks not to be loved\\nany more, to be admired any more, to have any more\\nhonor or dignity, and who cares not for gratitude,\\nbut whose sole thought is for others, and who only\\nlives on for them. helps.\\nWe may go through common life with an uncom-\\nmon motive the thought of God, and the desire\\nof pleasing and serving Him in all things.\\nEDWARD MEYRIC GOULBURN.\\nLife is a little gift when love bids give\\nEDWIN ARNOLD.\\n79", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0091.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Lord, make me quick to see\\nEach task awaiting me,\\nAnd quick to do\\nOh, grant me strength, I pray,\\nWith lowly love each day\\nAnd purpose true,\\nTo go as Jesus went,\\nSpending and being spent,\\nMyself forgot\\nSupplying human needs\\nBy loving words and deeds,\\nOh, happy lot\\nR. M. OFFORD.\\nTo become like Christ is the only thing in the\\nworld worth caring for, the thing before which everv\\nambition of man is folly and all lower achievements\\nvain.\\nHENRY DRUMMOND.\\nHold in my sight Thy wondrous cross,\\nSo shall I faint not under mine\\nSo shall I deem no anguish loss\\nThat leads me in Thy steps divine.\\nw. M. L. JAY.\\n80", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0092.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Christ s Giving\\nSt. John xv. 13\\nThe spirit of self-sacrifice\\nStays not to count its price.\\nChrist did not of His mere abundance cast\\nInto the empty treasury of man s store\\nThe First and Last\\nGave until even He could give no more\\nHis very living,\\nSuch was Christ s giving.\\nANNA E. HAMILTON.\\nTwo mites, two drops, but all her house and land,\\nFell from an earnest heart but trembling hand,\\nThe others wanton wealth foamed high and brave,\\nThe others cast away, she only gave.\\nShe had ceased to think that her own lot could be\\nhappy had ceased to think of happiness at all: the\\none end of her life seemed to be the diminishing of\\nsorrow.\\nGEORGE ELIOT.\\nNever be afraid of giving up your best, and God\\nwill give you His better.\\nhinton.\\n81", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0093.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Perhaps there may be hours\\nWhen I will miss the flow rs\\nThat made more bright the groves\\nThat contemplation loves\\nBut I am satisfied\\nWith Christ the crucified.\\na. e. s.\\nThou hast created us unto Thyself, and our heart\\nfinds no rest until it rests in Thee.\\nST. AUGUSTINE.\\nGod s greatness flows around our incompleteness\\nRound our restlessness His rest.\\nELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.\\nOur hearts are full and our voices sing\\nOf our love for the Christ for the risen King.\\nThe more closely the tie is drawn between our-\\nselves and our Master, the more like Him we shall\\nbe seen to go about doing good.\\nKNOX LITTLE.\\n82", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0094.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "We take with solemn thankfulness\\nOur burden up, nor ask it less\\nAnd count it joy that even we\\nMay suffer, serve, or wait for Thee,\\nWhose will be done.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\nIt matters not where or what we are, so we be\\nHis servants.\\nH. E. MANNING.\\nMy God, teach me to live with an abiding sense\\nof Thy Presence, laboring for Thee, suffering for\\nThee, guided by Thee, and Thee alone.\\nGOLD DUST.\\nGrant me the utmost holiness of which I am\\ncapable, then let others be holier than myself.\\nGOLD DUST.\\nAnd now we only ask to serve,\\nWe do not ask to rest\\nWe would give all without reserve,\\nOur life, our love, our best.\\nWe only ask to see His face,\\nIt is enough for us\\nWe only ask the lowest place,\\nSo He may smile on us.\\nm. e. townsend.\\n83", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0095.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0096.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "Trust", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0097.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0098.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "SING, children, sing\\nThe lilies white you bring\\nIn the joyous Easter morning for hope are blos-\\nsoming\\nAnd as the earth her shroud of snow from off her\\nbreast doth fling,\\nSo may we cast our fetters off in God s eternal\\nspring,\\nSo may we find release at last from sorrow and from\\npain,\\nSo may we find our childhood s calm, delicious dawn\\nagain.\\nSweet are your eyes, O little ones, that look with\\nsmiling grace,\\nWithout a shade of doubt or fear, into the Future s\\nface\\nSing, sing in the happy chorus, with joyful voices\\ntell\\nThat death is life, and God is good, and all things\\nshall be well;\\nThat bitter days shall cease\\nIn warmth, and light, and peace\\nThat winter yields to spring\\nSing, little children, sing!\\nCELIA THAXTER.\\n87", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0099.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every\\ncottage window, so comes a love-beam of God s care\\nand pity for every separate need.\\nNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.\\nGreat our need, but greater far\\nIs our Father s loving power.\\nHe upholds each mighty star,\\nHe unfolds each tiny flower.\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.\\nPeople talk about special providences. I believe\\nin the providences, but not in the specialty. I do\\nnot believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go\\nfor six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up\\nfor a moment.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nBut Heaven hath a hand in these events,\\nTo whose high will we bound our calm contents.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nThere is a power whose care\\nTeaches thy way.\\nWILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.\\n88", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0100.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "I know that He has led me all my life.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nJust outside the workday path\\nBy man s volition trod,\\nLie the resistless issues of\\nThe things ordained of God.\\nALICE CARY.\\nGod shall be my hope,\\nMy stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nI just fold my wings at nightfall,\\nWherever I happen to be\\nFor the Father is always watching,\\nNo harm can happen to me.\\nN. V. W.\\nHappy the man who sees a God employed\\nIn all the good or ill that checkers life.\\nCOWPER.\\nThrough Him the first fond prayers are said,\\nOur lips of childhood frame\\nThe last low whispers of our dead\\nAre burdened with His name.\\n8 9", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0101.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "When shadows of the valley fall,\\nWhen sin and death the soul appall,\\nOne light we through the darkness see\\nChrist on the cross,\\nWe cry to Thee.\\nTUDOR JENKS.\\nHis ear is ever open,\\nHe hears the faintest cry\\nTo all who call upon Him,\\nThe Lord our God is nigh.\\nCHRISTINA MULLER.\\nWhatever troubles come to you of mind, body,\\nor estate, from within or from without, from chance\\nor from intent, from friends or foes whatever your\\ntrouble be, though you be lonely, O children of a\\nHeavenly Father, be not afraid.\\nJOHN HENRY NEWMAN.\\nIn difficult positions where you anticipate not only\\ntrouble for yourself but also dangers for others, fore-\\nsee and prepare for them, but do not fear them if\\nthey come, the will of God and His grace will be\\nthere also.\\nThe Shepherd is leading you in a circuitous path\\nbut in the right way to His own blessed fold.\\n90", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0102.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "Be quiet, soul\\nWhy shouldst thou care and sadness borrow,\\nWhy sit in nameless fear and sorrow\\nThe livelong day\\nGod will mark out thy path to-morrow\\nIn His best way.\\nWe are always disbelieving in God, because things\\ndo not go as we intend and desire them to go.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nThat s best\\nWhich God sends. Twas His will it is mine.\\nOWEN MEREDITH.\\nDo the darkness and the terror plot against you,\\nWe also plan.\\nThey that love you are stronger than your haters\\nTrust God, O man\\nEDWIN ARNOLD.\\nIf you fear,\\nCast all your care on God that anchor holds.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\n91", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0103.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "When we cannot see our way\\nLet us trust and still obey\\nHe who bids us forward go,\\nWill not fail the way to show.\\nLate on me weeping did this whisper fall\\nu Dear child, there is no need to weep at all\\nWhy go about to grieve and to despair\\nWhy weep now through thy future s eyes, and bear\\nIn vain to-day, to-morrow s load of care.\\nSEPTIMUS SUTTON.\\nIt becomes by degrees easier to love God with no\\nuncertain affection to take adversities as blessings\\nand to see in every cross a sign of love.\\nBISHOP WILLIAM E. McLAREN.\\nW\\nTo feel altho no tongue can prove\\nThat every cloud that spreads above,\\nAnd veileth love, itself is love.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nMuch must be borne which is hard to bear,\\nMuch given away which it were sweet to keep.\\nGod help us all who need indeed His care:\\nAnd yet I know the Shepherd loves His sheep.\\nRUTH OGDEN.\\n92", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0104.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "Oh, we all have need of that prayer of the Breton\\nmariner Save us, O God Thine ocean is so large\\nand our little boats so small.\\nCANON F. W. FARRAR.\\nNo help nay, it is not so\\nThough human help be far, thy God is nigh\\nWho feeds the ravens, hears His children s cry,\\nHe s near thee wheresoe er thy footsteps roam,\\nAnd He will guide thee, light thee, help thee home.\\nIn my own hands my want and weakness are,\\nMy strength, O God, in Thine.\\nBAYARD TAYLOR.\\nFaith is a grasping of Almighty power\\nThe hand of man laid on the arm of God,\\nThe grand and blessed hour\\nIn which the things impossible to me\\nBecome the possible, O Lord, through Thee.\\nANNA E. HAMILTON.\\nLo Lord, I sit in Thy wide space\\nMy child upon my knee\\nShe looketh up into my face\\nAnd I look up to Thee.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\n93", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0105.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "The way at times may dark and wearv seem,\\nNo ray of sunshine on our path mav beam,\\nThe dark clouds hover o er us like a pall,\\nAnd gloom and sadness seem to compass all,\\nBut still with honest purpose toil we on\\nAnd if our steps be upright, straight, and true,\\nFar in the east a golden light shall dawn\\nAnd the bright smile of God come bursting through.\\nWILL CARLETON.\\nTo learn to leave things with God and to do\\none s work as if God could be trusted, is to gain\\nthe repose and full-heartedness which permits one\\nto pour out his whole strength without anxiety,\\nworry, or distraction.\\nI said to mv little son, who was watching tear-\\nfullv a tree he had planted, u Let it alone it will\\ngrow while you are sleeping.\\nWhy shouldst thou rill to-dav with sorrow\\nAbout to-morrow,\\nMy heart\\nOne watches all with care most true\\nDoubt not that He will give thee, too,\\nThy part.\\nPAUL FLEMMING.\\n94", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0106.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "This life is linked to the eternal, it will all come\\nright. It will all come right at last.\\nREV. JOHN O. HAARVIG.\\nMy bark is wafted to the strand\\nBy breath Divine,\\nAnd on the helm there rests a hand\\nOther than mine.\\nDEAN OF CANTERBURY.\\nAt the end of all exists the great Hope, Eternal\\nLife.\\nCHARLOTTE BRONTE.\\nThen hush oh, hush for the Father knows what\\nthou knowest not,\\nThe need and the thorn and the shadow linked with\\nthe fairest lot\\nKnows the wisest exemption from many an unseen\\nsnare\\nKnows what will keep thee nearest, knows what\\nthou could st not bear.\\nHush oh, hush for the Father portioneth as He\\nwill\\nTo all His beloved children, and shall they not be\\nstill\\n95", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0107.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Is not His will the h choice the\\nAnd in perfect aquie- B there not perfect r\\nHush oh, hush! forth. are true\\nand ju\\nKnoweth and careth and loveth, and r thy\\nperfect tru-\\nThe cup He is slowly filling, shall soon be full to\\nthe brim,\\nAnd infinite compensate and in Him.\\nHush oh, hush! for the Father hath fulness\\nin store,\\nsures f power and w: J pleasures for-\\ne\\\\L\\n;.nd honor and glorv, en nite bliss\\nChild of His love and His choice, c. :hou not\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAYERGAL.\\n96", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0108.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "The Ministry of Sorrow", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0109.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0110.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "THINK you to escape\\nWhat mortal man can never be without\\nWhat saint upon earth has never lived apart from,\\ncross and care?\\nWhy, even Jesus Christ, our Lord, was not even for\\none hour free from His passion s pain.\\nChrist says, He needs must suffer,\\nRising from the dead,\\nAnd enter thus upon His glory.\\nAnd how do you ask for another road\\nThan this the Royal Pathway of the Holy Cross.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nL*fc\\n99", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0111.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "My Web of Life\\nNo chance has brought this ill to me\\nTis God s sweet will, so let it be\\nHe seeth what I cannot see.\\nThere is a need-be for each pain,\\nAnd He will make it one day plain\\nThat earthly loss is heavenly gain.\\nLike as a piece of tapestry,\\nViewed from the back appears to be\\nNaught but threads tangled hopelessly,\\nBut in the front a picture fair\\nRewards the worker for his care,\\nProving his skill and patience rare.\\nThou art the workman, I the frame;\\nLord, for the glory of Thy name,\\nPerfect Thine image on the same.\\nThose who have suffered much are like those who\\nknow many languages, they have learned to under-\\nstand and to be understood by all.\\nMADAME SWETCHINE.\\nTis held that sorrow makes us wise.\\nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.\\nIOO", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0112.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "The man who is able to look down and see that\\npart of him capable of disappointment lying beneath\\nhim, is far more blessed than he who rejoices in the\\nfulfilment of his desires.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nIt is a sair thing to be misjudged, but it s no more\\nthan the Maker o us all pits up wi ilka hoor o the\\nday, and says ne er a word. Eh, but God s unco\\nquiet Sae long as He kens to Himsel as He s\\nricht, He lets folks think as they like till He has\\ntime to let them ken better. Lord, mak clean my\\nheart within me, and syne I ll care little for any\\njudgment but Thine.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nThis leaf? This stone It is thy heart\\nIt must be crushed by pain and smart,\\nIt must be cleansed by sorrow s art\\nEre it will yield a fragrance sweet,\\nEre it will shine, a jewel meet\\nTo lay before thy dear Lord s feet.\\nGood is that darkening of our lives\\nWhich only God can brighten\\nBut better still that hopeless load\\nWhich none but God can lighten.\\nFREDERICK WILLIAM FABER.\\nIOI", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0113.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they\\ngrind exceeding small\\nThough in patience long He waiteth, yet He surely\\nerindeth all.\\n6\\nChastened lives are better than merry ones\\nearnest souls are more needed than happy ones.\\nThe darkness shows us worlds of light\\nWe never see by day.\\nTHOMAS MOORE.\\nThrow not the cross away, of it the crown is\\nmade.\\nTHOMAS A KEMPIS.\\nIf I have no cross to bear to-day, I shall not\\nadvance heavenward.\\nTo lie quietly on a bed of down may seem a very\\nsweet existence but pleasant ease and rest are not\\nthe lot of a Christian. If he would mount higher\\nand higher, it must be by a rough road.\\nGOLD DUST.\\nWhen God afflicts thee, think He hews a rugged\\nstone\\nWhich must be shaped or else aside as useless\\nthrown.\\nRICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH.\\n102", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0114.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "As fire tempers the iron, so\\nAre we refined by woe.\\nALICE CARY.\\nIt was no relief from temporal evils that the\\nApostle promised.\\nNo the mercy of God might send them to the\\nstake or the lions; it was still His mercy, if it but\\nkept them unspotted from the world. It might\\nexpose them to insult, calumny, and wrong they\\nreceived it still as mercy if it u established them in\\nevery good work.\\nJ fe WM. ARCHER BUTLER.\\nOnly through suffering are we reconciled\\nTo the immortal Gods and to ourselves.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nThe cry rung from thy spirit s pain\\nMay echo on some far-off plain\\nAnd guide a wanderer home again.\\nADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.\\nGod doth suffice O thou, the patient one,\\nWho puttest faith in Him, and none beside,\\nBear yet thy load, under the setting sun\\nThe glad tints gleam, thou wilt be satisfied.\\nEDWIN ARNOLD.\\n103", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0115.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0116.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "Faith and Cheer", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0117.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0118.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "AND perched the glittering, icy boughs among,\\nOne little bird was pouring out his song,\\nAn Easter carol full of faith and cheer,\\nUnder the leaden sky so sad and drear.\\nDear little songster, braver thou than we\\nSurely our clouded hearts are shamed by thee\\nSo easy tis to sing when skies are fair,\\nAnd the spring gladness waketh in the air.\\nBut still to keep sweet music in the heart,\\nWhen wintry storms bid brightest hopes depart,\\nWhen skies are dark and springtime waiteth long,\\nThis is the true, the perfect Easter song.\\nG. H. D.\\n107", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0119.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "There is sunshine everywhere\\nFor thy heart and mine\\nGod for every sin and care\\nIs the cure divine.\\nGEORGE MACDONALD.\\nI have read in Plato and Cicero savings that are\\nverv wise and beautiful, but I never read in either of\\nthem, Come unto me, all ve that labor and are\\nheavy laden, and I will give you rest.\\nST. AUGUSTINE.\\nGreen ways or grav,\\nLabor or play,\\nThere s sweetness somewhere\\nIn each passing day.\\nThey who the sweetest rest\\nAre thev who toil the best\\nIn holy freedom living,\\nTo lowly sufferers giving;\\nIn God s fear ave remaining,\\nFrom every sin abstaining.\\nm. e. townsend.\\nAvoid looking forward or backward, and try to\\nkeep looking upward.\\nCHARLOTTE BRONTE.\\n108", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0120.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "And present gratitude\\nInsures the future s good,\\nAnd for the things I see\\nI trust the things to be;\\nThat in the paths untrod,\\nAnd the long days of God,\\nMy feet shall still be led,\\nMy heart be comforted.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\nHow soon a smile of God can change the world.\\nROBERT BROWNING.\\nAs on the Sea of Galilee\\nThe Christ is whispering peace.\\nJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.\\nBe the day weary\\nOr be the day long,\\nAt last it ringeth\\nTo evensong.\\nThank God there is always a light whence to\\nborrow\\nWhen darkness is darkest, and sorrow most sorrow.\\nALICE CARY.\\n109", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0121.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "We worship Thee, we bless Thee,\\nTo Thee alone we sing,\\nWe praise Thee and confess Thee\\nOur glorious Lord and King.\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.\\nWe thank Thee, dear Lord,\\nFor the sunshine fair,\\nFor flowers that smile\\nBy the wayside fair.\\nM. E. TOWNSEND.\\nThe sun set but set not his hopes\\nStars rose his faith was earlier up.\\nRALPH WALDO EMERSON.\\nTo a strong and earnest will\\nAll is easv labor still.\\nHe is near to help and bless;\\nBe not weary, onward press.\\nFRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.\\nThings at the worst will cease, or else climb upward\\nTo what they were before.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nIIO", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0122.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "Do thy duty, that is best\\nLeave unto thy Lord the rest.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nIt rests my weary aching eyes,\\nAnd soothes my heart and brain,\\nTo see the tender green of the leaves\\nAnd the blossoms wet with rain.\\nPHCEBE CARY.\\nHope in our souls is King\\nAnd the King never dies.\\nHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.\\nMy crown is in my heart, not on my head\\nNot deck d with diamonds and Indian stones,\\nNor to be seen my crown is called content\\nA crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nOh, life hath many a cloudy day,\\nAnd many griefs and wrongs\\nYet all along its checkered way\\nHe giveth songs.\\nEarth with its thousand voices praises God.\\nSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.\\nIll", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0123.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Tender Mercies\\nTender mercies on my way\\nFalling softly, like the dew,\\nSent me freshly every day,\\nI will bless the Lord for you.\\nThough I have not all I would,\\nThough to greater bliss I go,\\nEvery present gift of good\\neternal Love I owe.\\nSource of all that comforts me,\\nWell of jov for which I lc\\nLet the song I sinir to Thee\\nm everlasting song.\\nANNA L.\u00c2\u00a3TITIA WARING.\\nTuns for Thvself the music of mv days,\\nAnd open Thou mv lips that I mav show Thv praise.\\nfra: dley have?\\nOne dav at a time but a single dav,\\n-tever its load, whatever its length\\na bit of precious Scripture to s\\nThat according to each shall be our strength.\\nI 12", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0124.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in\\nmy heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the\\nlilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years\\nago. The nearer I approach to the end, the plainer\\nI hear around me the immortal symphonies of the\\nworlds which invite me.\\nVICTOR HUGO.\\nO Lord, that lends me life,\\nLend me a heart replete with thankfulness.\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nWe bless Thee for our creation, preservation,\\nand all the blessings of this life but above all, for\\nThine inestimable love in the redemption of the world\\nby our Lord Jesus Christ.\\ni*3", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0125.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0126.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "Hope of the Resurrection", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0127.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0128.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "I KNOW that my Redeemer liveth,\\nAnd that He shall stand\\nAt the latter day upon the earth\\nAnd tho worms destroy this body\\nYet in my flesh shall I see God.\\nI know that my Redeemer liveth,\\nFor now is Christ risen from the dead\\nThe first fruits of them that sleep.\\n117", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0129.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "In regal quiet deep\\nLo, One new waked from sleep\\nBehold, He standeth in the rock-hewn door\\nThy children shall not die,\\nPeace, peace, thy Lord is by\\nHe liveth they shall live forevermore.\\nPeace Lo, He lifts a priestly hand,\\nAnd blesseth all the sons of men in every land.\\nJEAN INGELOW.\\nPeace, peace he is not dead, he doth but sleep\\nHe hath awakened from the dream of life.\\nAnd tho when wearied some dear one lies down\\nTo his last rest, we cannot choose but weep,\\nYet like sweet music sounds the word of peace,\\nI come that I may wake him out of sleep.\\nA. H. PARRY.\\nNow, God be praised, that to believing souls\\nGives light in darkness, comfort in despair\\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\\nIl8", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0130.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "Easter Lilies\\nEaster lilies pure and white,\\nEmblems fair of life and light\\nEaster lilies bud and bloom\\nClose beside the empty tomb.\\nGod s sweet darlings here below\\nIn this world of grief and woe,\\nWords could not so well express\\nHeaven s love and tenderness.\\nIn your blossoms we may read\\nu He now lives who once was dead\\nHeavenward lift your weeping eyes\\nTo those mansions in the skies.\\nLook unto the pearly gates,\\nThere thy loved one for thee waits\\nList, that Voice that speaks to thee,\\nc Haste thy coming unto Me.\\nEaster lilies, by your breath\\nTaught am I there is no death\\nBy the white light of your bloom\\nI behold an empty tomb\\nREV. GEORGE W. CROFTS.\\nng", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0131.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "There must be lovely lands somewhere starward,\\nfor those who go thither never return, and I very-\\nmuch doubt if any would if they could.\\nBENJAMIN F. TAYLOR.\\nAnd somewhere yet in the hill-tops\\nOf the country that hath no pain,\\nShe will watch in her beautiful doorway\\nTo bid us welcome again.\\nIt is not darkness you are going to, for God is\\nLight. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It\\nis not an unknown country, for Christ is there.\\nCHARLES KINGSLEY.\\nAnd thither thou, beloved, and thither I\\nMay set our heart and set our face, and go,\\nFaint, yet pursuing, home on tireless feet.\\nCHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.\\nGod grant that all who watch to-day\\nBeside their sepulchres of loss\\nMay find the great stone rolled away,\\nMay see at last, with vision clear,\\n120", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0132.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "The shining angel standing near,\\nAnd through the dimly-lighted soul\\nAgain may joy s evangel roll\\nThe glory of the cross.\\nJULIA H. THAYER.\\nVernal Solace\\nWhen April s sky is blue above\\nThe quiet dust of those we love,\\nThere comes to every heart that grieves,\\nThe solace of unfolding leaves.\\nA vernal benediction flows\\nThrough wind-born whispers of the rose,\\nAnd bears to every listening soul\\nA promise from some far-off goal.\\nThe turf made fair by rain and sun,\\nBreathes not of dark oblivion,\\nAnd girds the silence of the tomb\\nWith tiny miracles of bloom.\\nEach star-eyed daisy seems to bring\\nThe brave, sweet gospel of the spring\\nAnd the deep blue violets tell\\nOf love and life invincible.\\nWILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE.\\n121", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0133.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Easter Hymn\\nChrist the Lord is risen to-day,\\nSons of men and angels say\\nRaise your joys and triumphs high,\\nSing, ye heavens, and earth reply.\\nLove s redeeming work is done,\\nFought the fight, the victory won.\\nJesus agony is o er,\\nDarkness veils the earth no more.\\nVain the stone, the watch, the seal,\\nChrist hath burst the gates of hell,\\nDeath in vain forbids Him rise,\\nChrist hath opened Paradise.\\nSoar we now where Christ hath led,\\nFollowing our exalted Head;\\nMade like Him, like Him we rise\\nOurs the cross, the grave, the skies.\\nCHARLES WESLEY.\\n122", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0134.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0135.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SEP 10 1900", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0136.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4657", "width": "3003", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0137.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 997 474 8", "height": "4734", "width": "3157", "jp2-path": "forhissakethough00mack_0138.jp2"}}