 | 1846 - 302 sider
...'twix old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the... | |
 | 1888 - 474 sider
...with ua and we shall triumph. *• Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever "on the throne, Tet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." REPORT ON CHINESE WORK. BY RBV. SIMEON OILBKBT, DD, CHAIRMAN. 1. Is it worth while to attempt Christian... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 sider
...'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 272 sider
...'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 sider
...'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever oh the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.'' In taking a retrospect of the past, the present stands osten> sibly amazed and shocked at the treatment... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 388 sider
...XIII. THE SARACENS AND HAGARENES. " Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." " For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free-woman. But... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1854 - 34 sider
...darkness, 'twixt old systems and the Word, Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the Throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...GOD within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." As I rode to town this morning, I passed between orchards and groves eaten bare by the canker-worm.... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 564 sider
...the " word ;" Truth forever or the scaffold, Wrong forever or the throne, Yet that scaffold sways a future, And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." And this is the first time that this preacher of Christian politics has named God in the whole sermon... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 sider
...'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith, how weak an arm may turn the... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 326 sider
...systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the Scaffold, — Wrong forever on the Throne, — ' O / Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." 2. So with Truth. Veracity is a social virtue. Society nurtures it, tries it, manifests it. In solitude,... | |
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. 
