Word: thees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the club was not as fortunate in its program as in the preceding concerts it unquestionably did the best singing of the season. The tenor choir seemed more robust than at previous hearings this was especially evident in "Out of he Depth I Cry to Thee" by Bach...
...There arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...
...spent in the East searching for manuscripts. Thus in a Syriac document of the Eighth Century, just deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature, O Christ, was smaller than that of the children of Jacob, who sinned against Thy Father who elected Thee, and who kindled the wrath of the Eternal Son who dwelt in Thee, and who angered the Holy Spirit who sanctified Thee." According to another record: "Ofttimes He would appear to me as a small man and uncomely, and then again as one reaching unto Heaven. His head touched Heaven so that...
...down in a book." This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows...