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Title: Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Bible Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher: Battle Creek, MI Chicago, IL : Review and Herald Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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represents man in an attitude of religious devotion, theangel pointing upward with a look of encouragement and approval.Cherubs, preparing wreaths, occupy the places of the monstersupon the walls; while the cross, the open Bible, and the rosesshow that death and the grave are no longer subjects of fear.Satan has disappeared, and the robe and empty chair alone re-main to show his discomfiture. The lion, foiled, has a look ofbaffled rage. These designs must be numbered among the happiest creationsof genius and art. The mind that willingly turns its thoughtsupon what is most serious in life, cannot easily remain unmovedby the deep meaning of the ideas here represented; while manya presumptuous spirit, beholding Peace already in Satans hands,Innocence gone, Doubts urgent, Prayer neglected, and the assuredprospect that the game itself must be lost if Religion be sac-rificed, may yet cast a searching look upon what is passing withinhimself, and, by summoning divine aid, come off conqueror.
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o 2- z 0 - N BE On in (S ^ 5 < THE FALL OF MAN. BEELZEBUBS ADDRESS TO THE FALLEN ANGELS. There is a place(If ancient and prophetic fame in heavenErr not), another world, the happy seatOf some new race called Man, about this timeTo be created like to us, though lessIn power and excellence, but favored moreOf Him who rules above ; so was his willPronounced among the gods, and by an oath,That shook heavens whole circumference, confirmed.Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learnWhat creatures there inhabit, of what moldOr substance, how endued, and what their power,And where their weakness, how attempted best,By force or subtlety. Though heaven be shut,And heavens high Arbitrator sit secureIn his own strength, this place may lie exposed,The utmost border of his kingdom, leftTo their defense who hold it: here, perhaps,Some advantageous act may be achievedBy sudden onset, either with hell-fireTo waste his whole creation, or possessAll as our own, and drive, as we were

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