This practice is very beneficial for their souls, of great usefulness to the community, and remarkablyedifying to all.
The "edifying instances," and biographies of the Jesuit fathers, and other devotional reading it is necessary to omit here, as our limited space forbids its presentation.
Our author here relates various instances of miraculous aid from heaven, and other edifying cases.
He seems to have had the account from Luther himself, who, it would appear, told him the story together with the edifying cause of his reception.
His leisure hours he spent in the writing of edifying novels, the composition of acrostics in Latin Verse, and in playing battledore and shuttlecock with his little nieces.
He nursed no resentment in his heart, and, after a long and edifying life of peace and silence, he died in 1886, a professor of theology at Clifton.
Two or three examples will illustrate Honorius's edifying way of using allegory.
But since no day and no school ought to be vacant of religion, Bernard would select for study a subject edifying to faith and morals.
It is a beautiful and edifying "survival"--one which brings the sainted past very close home to our "business and bosoms.
This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
I tell you fairly, that at Southwell I should have nothing in the World to do, but play at cards and listen to the edifying Conversation of old Maids, two things which do not at all suit my inclinations.
This gained, we have felt it our privilege to halt and rest a while, and refresh ourselves with a little pleasing and edifying discourse, one with another, touching what we have seen or heard in the course of our journey.
To him the dog's manager applied for the privilege of producing his edifying piece.
Origen therefore was very far from finding the literal content of Scripture edifying in every instance, indeed, in the highest sense, the letter is not edifying at all.
What the great majority of the Church felt to be intelligible and edifying above everything else was an earnest moralism.
Whatever professed to be inspired, or apostolic, or ancient, or edifying was regarded as the work of the Spirit and therefore as the Word of God.
His high ideal was completely realised so that even Gibbon calls his pontificate the most edifying period of Church history.
The frugal meal was eaten in silence while some edifying selection was read.
If Mill's doctrine leads to an impossible strictness in one direction, it leads to less edifying results in another.
Had he put his views in a different shape, he would perhaps have been so edifying that he would have been disregarded.
M'Culloch, at starting, insists in edifying terms upon the necessity of a careful and comprehensive induction, and of the study of industrial phenomena in different times and places, and under varying institutions.
He could adapt Butler's Analogy, and write an edifying Bridgewater Treatise.
When I saw him next morning, most edifying was the whole tenour of his observations and his prayers.
So he pulled himself up to some small degree, and began to sprinkle good advice among the younger men with edifying gravity.
For the deep Christian feeling, which has given to Beowulf its almost prudish propriety and its edifying tone, is manifested by no direct and dogmatic reference to Christian personages or doctrines.
Only after he had made himself popular by several performances did he attempt to weave edifying matter into his verse.
Man cannot claim to be the sole proprietor of the luxury of woe, and may he not draw edifying lessons from contemplating the transient sorrows of his pets and domestic animals?
It may be edifying to confess a particular interest in man's first enemy-not such interest as the man of science displays when he seeks to add to the knowledge of the world, but a kind of social concern.
It had been an edifying sacrament, too, founded on immemorial truth, for had it not been devoutly believed that Soosie's most excellent and potent personality would remain with and glorify every participant?
While in this edifying attitude, I was permitted to address him.
He had, moreover, caused every hair to be shaved off his body, which was as naked as the hand, and altogether he presented an edifying picture of penitence and self-abasement.
Chevalier, after a most edifying course of devotedness to her Lord and Saviour, died in her confinement in June, 1840.
In the quiet cloisters of a large town I met a lonely man, living one day like another, a quiet and edifying life, to whom I felt particularly attracted.
He bade them spare not to do evil, and advised them to eat, drink, and be merry: after which edifying discourse they did homage to him in the usual indecent manner.
