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" Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the 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 unknown,... "
The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes - Page 161
by James Russell Lowell - 1863
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Homiletical Aids for the Christian Year: A Series of Outlines of Sermons for ...

E. W., Edward Wynne - 1875 - 418 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness, 'twixt old systems and the word : Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." * But the believer is patient under wrong, for he can say text. He knows judgment is His strange work,...
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Why Four Gospels?: Or, the Gospel for All the World. A Manual to Aid ...

Daniel Seely Gregory - 1876 - 372 pages
...and matter to those for whom it was originally prepared. PART I. THE PURPOSE OF GOD AND THE GOSPEL. " Careless seems the Great Avenger ; history's pages...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAMES K i --1:1.1. LOWELL. " For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,...
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Why Four Gospels? Or, The Gospel for All the World: A Manual Designed to Aid ...

Daniel Seely Gregory - 1876 - 362 pages
...and matter to those for whom it was originally prepared. PAET I. THE PURPOSE OF GOD AND THE GOSPEL. " Careless seems the Great Avenger ; history's pages...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. " For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased...
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Souvenir Nineteenth Annual Congress of the Association for the Advancement ...

Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...trumpets and bugles calling strong souls onward to a victory which Heaven might envy, and "Where, bebind the dim Unknown. Standeth GOD within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." I thought that women ought to have the ballot as I paid the hard-earned taxes upon my mother's cottage...
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Conscience: With Preludes on Current Events

Joseph Cook - 1878 - 314 pages
...record One death-grapple in the darkness, 'twixt old systems and the Word; But the yet veiled rules the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." Adapted from LOWELL: The Present Crisis. [Applause.] VI. THE FIRST CAUSE AS PERSONAL. THE EIGHTY-SIXTH...
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Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament ...

John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...Lord will speak : for He will speak peace unto His people and to His saints " (Ps. Ixxxv. 8). XIII. " And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." — Anon. ' There is a promise to particular saints — ' I will never leave THEE, nor forsake THEE.'...
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The Indian Evangelical Review, Volume 6

1879 - 556 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. * * * • " Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings...
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Unity Pulpit, Volume 11

1889 - 690 pages
...— that " Truth " is " forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne." But he believes that " Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." He does not deny what Lowell says : — " By the light of burning heretics Christ's bleeding feet I...
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Why Four Gospels? Or, The Gospel for All the World: A Manual Designed to Aid ...

D. S. Gregory - 1880 - 360 pages
...and matter to those for whom it was originally prepared. PART I. THE PURPOSE OF GOD AND THE GOSPEL. " Careless seems the Great Avenger ; history's pages...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAMES RUSSKLL LOWELL. " For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased...
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Education, Volume 21

1901 - 702 pages
...Lowell says : — "Careless seems the great Avenger : history's pages but record One death grapple in the darkness, twixt old systems and the -word:...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is the faith that sustains us amidst the present commotions that threaten sometimes to unseat...
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