The Candle from Under the Bushel; (Luke XI, 33) Or, Thirteen Hundred and Six Questions to the Clergy and for the Consideration of Others  (English, Paperback, Hart William)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: J j most fine gold, his locks are bushy and black as a raven. . . . His cheeks are as a bed of spices— as sweet flowers; his lips like lilies. . . . His belly is as bright ivory. . . . His legs are as pillars of marble. . . . His mouth is most sweet, yea, he is altogether lovely. . . . Thy thighs are like jewels. . . . Thy navel is like a round goblet. . . . Thy belly is like an heap of wheat. . . Thine eyes like fish pools. . . . Thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon. . . . [Rather steep.] How fair and how pleasant art thou. . . I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. . . . I would kiss thee, yet I should not be despised. . . . His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. . Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave. ... [A good saying.] If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned " (From Solomon's Song, so- called). In view of the matter above, and the other of the like character the book contains, do you consider the Bible a book fit to be placed in the hands of children, especially if they are required to read it ? 1,152. "And ye shall eat 'the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat" (Lev. xxvi, 29). "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the Lord thy God hath given thee " (Deut. xxviii, 53). "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, und they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend " (Jer. xix, 9). " So we boiled my son and did eathim " (2 Kings vi, 29). " The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The Lord hath accomplished his fury" (Lam. iv, 10...