And there came into her soul an ecstasy, and tears that were tears of blessedness fell from her eyes, and all about her there seemed to shine a light.

I was one of those that strove for the mastery, and sometimes grudgedWe remember these things at times," he said gravely, "to make us more aware of the blessedness of being content.

And I do not know whether I can truly give unto you the great astonishment and pain of hope that did come upon me; so that I grew sick in all my being but to behold once again the blessedness of light, and to have help unto my belief that I went not downward to an utter desolation.

Celibacy N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship^; misogamy^, misogyny.

Bored by the duties put upon her by society, her wealth, and widowed blessedness, she had journeyed into the Northland and gone to housekeeping in a cosey cabin on the edge of the diggings.

That only can be called reform which tends to reform the human heart, for all evil has its rise there, and not until the world, ceasing from selfishness and party strife, has learned the lesson of divine Love, will it realize the Golden Age of universal blessedness.

He can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

There was still blessedness such as Sheila had never felt.

Lord, I love those who were kind to my child, and wept with me for her; shall I not much more love thee, who, I hope, art at this moment taking care of her, and opening her infant faculties for the duties and blessedness of heaven.

But if the human organ of inspiration goes on to fix the how, the where, and the when, and attributes to some nearer object the glory of the final blessedness, then it inevitably falls into such mistakes as Virgil's, and finds its golden age in the rule of the Caesars (which was indeed an essential feature of Christianity), or perhaps, as in later days, in the establishment of socialism or imperialism.

Think you, it would be the harbinger of millenial peace and blessedness?

The first proposal came from a few little colored girls, who, after hearing a sermon on the blessedness of doing good, wanted to know whether they might not have a society for raising money to give to the poor.

Within the sphere where the laws of reason place him, may he not act according to his choicecarry out his own volitions?may he not enjoy life, exult in freedom, and pursue as he will the path of blessedness?

This is the blessedness of Christmas-day.

For He in whose favor all blessedness is; And out of whose kingdom no treasure is sure, Was poor when on earth;and the poor still are his: His charge to his friends is "Remember the poor.

If we seek wealth, let us not forget that pure hearts gentle affections, lofty purposes, and generous deeds, can alone secure the peace and blessedness of the spiritual kingdom of God.

When your weak arm can hold back the globes which circle in space above us in solemn grandeur and beauty forever, then may you hope to arrest the operation of those laws which preserve an everlasting connection between obedience and blessedness, sin and sorrow.

Or, if he taste the blessedness of night, Thought for the morrow soon warns slumber off.

If you are persuaded that you have had revealed to you a glorious gospel of light and blessedness, it is impossible not to thirst to impart such tidings most eagerly to those who are closest about your heart.

And in this connection it is worthy of note that though Christ has much to say concerning the duty and blessedness of prayer, and

And it may be our blessedness to die for it: to die daily by the crucifixion of our selfish willto die at last by laying our bodies on the altar.

Even if we loved some one else better thanthan those we were married to, it would be of no use"poor Dorothea, in her palpitating anxiety, could only seize her language brokenly"I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love.

ISLANDS OF THE BLESSED, fabled islands of the far west of the ocean, where the favoured of the gods after death are conceived to dwell in everlasting blessedness.

They distinguish between soul and body, and regard the former as eternal; evil is not in mere existence, but in life, and their Nirvâna is a blessedness without break or end.

On I walked In thankful blessedness, which yet survives.