...possible with God. While proudly disregarding the light of revelation, philosophy can but stumble, even " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." Bat the man who feels after the great Revealer " if haply he may find him," is not left to walk in...

...truths being brought to light. In any case, however, the knowledge only carries us back a step or two " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." If the chemist, the statist, the astronomer, lose themselves — as they delight to do — in the inquiry...

...distance at which an unseen God keep« ? and— " Faltering where he firmly trod, And fulling 'neath his weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, . That slope through darkness up to God," is it any wonder if he longs for some personal manifestation of God, euch ai takes place in Christ...

...stronger seem Upon the stage, where erst thou played'st thy part : ' 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 ; " A leader false and castaway thou art," She sternly speaketh ; but thy...

...continues to do so in abrupt and futile movements. Compare Tennyson in ' In Memoriam," canto Iv. : — I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff ; . and Hecuba in ' The Trojan Women,' 1305, " beating the earth with both her hands.'"' A footnote in Darwin...

...DRAYTON. CHAPTER I. "Fall Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God— And gather dust, and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all—" DAVID BRUCE is saying these words half aloud, and John Drayton's eye falls upon them as he bashfully...

...of peace. " And falling, with my weight of care, Upon the great world's altar-stair, "Which slopes through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope ; " and alas ! but how "faintly trust the larger hope ! " This battle of life, — these victories of sin,...

...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 That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and...

...leave nothing for the best and wisest of us, but, laden with cares and doubts, to fall suppliant — Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Our sorrow for the loss of those two noble brothers is deepened and doubled by the thought of what...

...leave nothing for the best and wisest of us, but, laden with cares and doubts, to fall suppliant — Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, Our sorrow for the loss of those two noble brothers is deepened and doubled by the thought of what...