 | M H S - 1879 - 392 pages
...believe ; help thou mine unbelief. MARK ix. 24. I FALTRR where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. TRNNYSON. ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast given us the faith of -**- Christ for a light to our feet amid the... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 470 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of carea Upon the great world's altar-staira That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. GOD AND NATURE. 323 I venture to suggest that, by resolute firmness in declaring that nature is not... | |
 | 1889 - 84 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. " So careful of the type ?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, ' ' A thousand... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. I venture to suggest that, by resolute firmness in declaring that nature is not God, the strife between... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Apostles - 1879 - 726 pages
...in the dark (Arist. !'<!.,'. 691 ; Gen. xxvii. 21 ; Isa. lix. 10 ; cf. Rom. i. 21, x. 6—8) :— " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — Tennyton. 8 He means to imply that the necessity for this groping was their own fault — was due... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - Bible and evolution - 1880 - 356 pages
...seeds She often "brings but one to bear : " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — (" IN- MEMORIAM," liv.-lv.) Turn we then from the struggling, (&.)_The Glorious veerjng p0et to... | |
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1880 - 138 pages
...but a cry. I falter where I firmly trod. And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. This truth came borne with bier and pall, I felt it when I sorrowed most, 'Tis better to have loved... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 814 pages
.... Bom. i. 21, x. 6—8) :— " I stretch lame hands of fnith, and grope And Anther dust and chuff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."— Tennyson. " He means to imply that the necessity for this groping wag their own fault— was due to... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1881 - 466 pages
...that is in it all." Still, for one, — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." H.— JH RHODES, ESQ., OF CLEVELAND. To thousands of men and women the words " Garfield at Hiram "... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...seeds She often brings but one to bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight ossy ways. I ***»*< Dip down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year, delaying long: Thou doest expectant nature... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
