The Bible Story Part 52

"So Judas kiss'd his master, And cried, 'all hail!' whenas he meant, all harm."

--_Shakespeare, III Henry VI 5:7_.

Bitter Waters 191 H.T.

"The Gospel has the only branch that sweetens waters of a bitter popular discontent."

--_Anonymous_.

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Blood on the Lintel. 177 H. T.

"I do not suppose that your troops are to be beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain that many homes in England in which there now exists a fond hope that the distant one may return, many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. There is no one to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side posts of our doors, that the Angel of Death may spare and pa.s.s on."

--_John Bright_.

Book of Life. 463 S.A.

"The Power . . . .

May hear well pleased the language of the soul, And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."

--_Burns, The Cotter's Sat.u.r.day Night_.

The Breastplate of Righteousness. 448 S.A.

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"

--_Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2_.

Bricks without Straw. 150 H.T.

"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an Auscultators.h.i.+p, painfully toiled, baking bricks without stubble, before ever the question once struck him with entire force: For What?"

--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5_.

The Broken Reed. 272 S.A.

"He (the genius) becomes obstinate in his errors, no less than in his virtues, and the arrows of his aims are blunted, as the reeds of his trust are broken."

--_Ruskin, A Joy For Ever_.

The Burning Bush 142 H.T.

"In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame, Men look for G.o.d, and fancy him concealed, But in earth's common things he stands revealed, While gra.s.s and flowers and stars spell out his name."

--_Minot J. Savage_.

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The Burning Fiery Furnace. 190 T.J.

"Be it floor or blood the path that's trod, All the same it leads to G.o.d.

Be it furnace fire voluminous One like G.o.d's Son will walk with us."

--_Christina G. Rossetti_.

By Their Fruits Ye shall Know Them. 109 G.B., 117 L.J.

"If the tree be known by the fruit and fruit by the tree."

--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:4_.

Carry Off the City's Gates. 176 T.J.

"Samson, master: . . . he carried the town gates on his back like a porter."

--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 1:2_.

Casting Lots for His Garments. 281 L.J.

"They are now casting lots, Ay, with that gesture quaint and cry uncouth, For the coat of One murdered an hour ago."

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Cast Out of Eden. 21 T.J.

"What of Adam cast out of Eden?

(Alas the hour) Lo! with care like a shadow shaken He tills the hard earth whence he was taken."

--_Rossetti, Eden Bower_.

Cedars of Lebanon. 457 H.T.

"Feasted the woman wisest then, in halls of Lebanonian cedar."

--_Tennyson, The Princess_.

The Chariot of Fire. 134 T.J.

"As he, whose wrongs The bears avenged, at its departure saw Elijah's chariot, when the steeds erect Raised their steep flight for heaven; his eyes, meanwhile, Straining pursued them, till the flame alone, Upsoaring like a misty speck, he kenned."

--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.

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The Chosen People. 51 S.A.

"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle."

--_Lincoln, Speech to the Senate of New Jersey_.

The Chosen Vessel. 372 L.J.

"He came who was the Holy Spirit's vessel; Barefoot and lean."

--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.

A Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by Night. 179 H.T.

"He is only a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar of fire."

--_Tennyson, Despair_.

A Cloud Like a Man's Hand. 122 T.J.

"And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's hand There comes the sound as of abundant rain."