Evidently the text of the sermon was not chosen that it might have some association with Phil's death, but there was a kind of simple grandeur, and certainly cheerful stalwartness, in his interpretation and practical rendering of the text: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
"Mrs. Falchion, Complete"
Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 12, 2009
In another place, he says, I hold on boughs or slender trees caressingly there in the sun and shade, wrestle with their inmost stalwartness-and know the virtue thereof passes from them into me.
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There isn'tany use denying it-there had come to the surface the inherent honor that is in every metal miner, a stalwartness that may lie dormant, but that, sooner or later, must rise.
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