 What ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, —...  The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 35by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers,...church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine?" The first stanza of" The Pine- Tree" contains an inspiring appeal, and a graphic picture of the old... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! servants of thine own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! These and other verses of a like kind show the moral purpose of Whittier's early work, which is perhaps... | |
 | 1853 - 380 pages
...Christianity, and give not the holy name to that which violates its laws, and has none of its spirit. - " Just God, and holy ! Is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine?" Leeds Anti-Slavery Series. No. 19. Sold by W. and FG CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1853 - 384 pages
...then Bolt hard the captive's door? What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! How long, 0 Lord ! how long Shall such a priesthood barter truth away, And, in Thy name, for robbery... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 pages
...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers,...church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? " The first stanza of " The Pine- Tree " contains an inspiring appeal, and a graphic picture of the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1856 - 470 pages
...then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The...truth which search and burn In warning and rebuke ; 19 VOICES OF FREEDOM. Feed fat, ye locusts, feed ! And, in your tasseled pulpits, thank the Lord... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends I Chief priests and rnlers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is that church,...to the spoiler, Thine ? Paid hypocrites, who turn Jndgment aside, and rob the Holy Book Of those high words of trnth which search and burn In warning... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - 1868 - 322 pages
...homeless and the outcast—fettering down The tasked and plundered slave I Pilate and Herod, friends 1 Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine! Just God and holy I is that church which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? Paid hypocrites! who turn Judgment aside,... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1858 - 336 pages
...then Bolt hard the captive's door? What! servants of thine own Merciful SOD, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave I Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine 1 Just God and holy 1 is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...seek and save The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilot and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as...Book Of those high words of truth which search and bunt In warning and rebuke ; Feed fat, ye locusts, feed ! And, in your tassell'd pulpits, thank the... | |
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