 | 1874 - 332 pages
...Paul here says, you are " feeling after him," you grope timidly, as our Poet-Laureate well puts it — "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, " I stretch lame hands of faith,... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...absolute, the infinite, the eternal, the sense of the allbeautiful, the all-perfect — made them fall " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God," and stretch hands of faith, and trust the larger hope. We do not propose to offer any arguments to... | |
 | Sylva (pseud.) - 1874 - 200 pages
...Saviour's dceds And finding that of fifty creeds None do my Father's signet bear I falter whero I feebly trod And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That elope through darkness up to God I streteh lame hands of faith, and grop* And gather... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 376 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,...dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of AH, And faintly trust the larger hope." But the Doctrine of Retribution itself, viewed as we have viewed... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 374 pages
...from the resources of his Reason, may soon read in his own Soul the truth of the Poet's words : — " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dnst and chaff, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 264 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty 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 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1875 - 172 pages
...fearful spirit of mistrust, mingled with sincere desires to know what the truth is, and where. " They stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff; and call To what they feel is Lord of all ; And faintly trust the larger hope." • But all this means that these cannot... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, strength, SOSGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch Innie hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all,... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1875 - 426 pages
...Him." (Job xxii. 8.) So it will always be in approaching God in our present fallen state. " I stumble where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs, That lead through darkness up to God." But these are only the approaches... | |
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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 thro' 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... 
