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By William Walsham How ... New and Enlarged Edition
How, William Walsham (1823-1897)

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Retrospect.
  
Llanfihangel.
  
The Winter Birthday.
  
Sunset at Durham.
  
Night at Durham.
  
Association.
  
The Alps.
  
The Thunder Cloud.
  
Funeral of a Child in Spring.
  
Stars and Graves.
  
A Dream.
  
Hymn of Praise,
  
Spring Ride.
  
Christmas Holly.
  
Habberly Valley.
  
The Floating of the Britannia Tube,
  
The Home View.
  
Shelsley Beauchamp.
  
Cader Idris.
  
The First Spring Day.
  
On the Reopening of Owston Church, Leicestershire.
  
The Last Communion.
  
The Three Pundits.
  
Golden-Saxifrage.
  
The Children's Garden.
  
A Sunbeam.
  
Homeward.
  
Mountain-Pansies.
  
Converse.
  
On the Death of Bishop Lonsdale of Lichfield,
  
The Last Bathe.
  
A Puzzling Question.
  
Fairyland Lost and Regained.
  
On the Death of Bishop Gray of Capetown,
  
Two Burials.
  
Written in a Lady's Album.
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The Babies' Wood Turkey-Cock.
  
MORAL.
  
Barmouth.
  
Old and New.
  
Thrift the Plant.
  
London Pride.
  
The Boy Hero.
  
A Tale of the London Mission of 1874.
  
To the Primate Designate.
  
Pencil or Pen.
  
Poetry and the Poor.
  
The Blind and the Deaf.
  
My Clergy.
  
Charity.
  
“Pasce Verbo, Pasce Vitâ.”
  
Gentleman John.
  
From Nature to Man.
  
“University Settlements” in East London.
  
The East London Children's Hospital.
  
A Vision of Barmouth.
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Sermon Notes in Verse.
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I.—Christianity.
 II. 
II.—Faith.
 III. 
III.—Hope.
 IV. 
IV.—Love.
 V. 
V.—Confession and Absolution.
 VI. 
VI.—The Two Natures.
 VII. 
VII.—The Two Visions.
 VIII. 
VIII.—The Two Worlds.
 IX. 
IX.—The Knowledge of God.
 X. 
X.—Our Life for Others.
 XI. 
XI.—The Kingdom of Heaven.
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XII.—Man's Littleness and Greatness.
  
On the Alps.
  
“Judge Not.”
  
On Leader's Picture, “Parting-Day.”
  
England's Pure Homes.
  
A Day at Thusis.
  
A Starlit Night by the Seashore.

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I.—Christianity.

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Text: 1 Cor. ii. 2.

Two Tables graven with unbending laws,—
Unveilings of the glorious things to be,—
Deep searchings into the primæval Cause,—
A faultless scheme of pure morality;—
Is this, O man, the pearl of costless price?
For this hath God sent down the Eternal Son?
What meaneth then this awful Sacrifice?
What victory is this that God hath won?
Nay, it is He Himself, nought else but He,—
God infinite made one with finite Man,—
No creed, no system, no philosophy,—
That fills my needs in this life's straitened span:—
One of all joy and peace the unfailing spring,
My hidden treasure and my pearl unpriced,
A Heart where trembling love can hide and cling,
The warm and living touch—the touch of Christ!
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