 | 1921 - 558 стор.
...ordinary purposes their attitude has seemed to the rest of the world to be that of the famous grace: "God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more". This position rendered persecution and religious-racial prejudice inevitable. The persecution which... | |
 | Oscar C. McCulloch - 1892 - 482 стор.
...whole, or the world. Let us put it in homely contrast with the old spirit when a man could pray, " God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more." That is individualism or the family unit. That man's ideas have not expanded to take in any one beyond... | |
 | 1926 - 550 стор.
...ordinary purposes their attitude has seemed to the rest of the world to be that of the famous grace: "God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more". This position rendered persecution and religious-racial prejudice inevitable. The persecution which... | |
 | Brigham Henry Roberts - 1892 - 506 стор.
...bigotry. Who does not remember with what scorn he treated the spirit which led the man to pray : "Lord, bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, Us four, but no more. Amen." "I think sometimes," he would remark, "that as a people we are a good deal sectarian... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture - 1893 - 924 стор.
...prosperous than themselves. Their prayer, if they pray at all,. is like the old deacon's, which was: "God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more." We believe that this spirit is growing less in our communities, and "that charity which covers a multitude... | |
 | Minnesota State Horticultural Society - 1893 - 434 стор.
...make-believe religious man had, who always offered the blessing at the table, asking the same thing: "Oh Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more. Amen." Others with true missionary spirit even leave home and friends, take their lives in their hands,... | |
 | Theosophical Society (Chennai, India) - 1893 - 210 стор.
...here in the West, at least, which expresses the idea, and that is this : " Oh Lord ! have mercy upon me and my wife, My son John and his wife, Us four, And no more." That is the very essence of our religion, and, thinking that way, you must see how it will penetrate... | |
 | Louise Chandler Moulton - 1894 - 240 стор.
...sometimes think we are all, at heart, of something the same kidney with the old man who prayed, — " God bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, — Us four, and no more." We do not quite so frankly acknowledge this centralization of interest in the first person, even to... | |
 | National Municipal League - 1894 - 406 стор.
...place, but theirs is not the only place in which man's obligations to public good are discharged. ' ' God bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife, We four and no more. Amen. " This sort of religion will not pass for goodness much longer. Beyond question,... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1895 - 380 стор.
...home " ; the meaning being, that a man shall primarily look out for himself, then for his kinsmen — "Me and my wife, my son John and his wife ; us four and no more " — then with an ever-decreasing sense of responsibility for all the rest of his fellow-men. If this... | |
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God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more". 
