A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Given to redeem the human mind from error,

There were no need of arsenals nor forts.

The warrior’s name would be a name abhorred;

And every nation that should lift again

Its hand against a brother, on its forehead

Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain.

Longfellow.

ABIDE—ABODE.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.—I. Chronicles, xxix. 15.