 I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 3551851Full view - About this book
 | Hely Hutchinson Almond - 1886 - 76 pages
...difficulties, can say with the poet — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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... | |
 | Cushing Biggs Hassell, Sylvester Hassell - 1886 - 1050 pages
...And with no language but a cry. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1888 - 518 pages
...She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of carea Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith." The hands of faith of our old Hebrew were fettered rather than lame.... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1890 - 248 pages
...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 through 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... | |
 | 1890 - 830 pages
...She often brings but one to bear. I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with inv weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through 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... | |
 | 1891 - 220 pages
...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 through 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... | |
 | James Johnston (F.S.S.) - 1892 - 280 pages
...of tribal savagery, these knight-errants of heaven have placed the feet of Africa's dusky children upon . . . . " The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God." (3) To the missionary's self-abnegating and prolonged toils living monuments bear eloquent testimony.... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...that might seem to lie under it, " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 394 pages
...single life," must needs confess — I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1893 - 590 pages
...expression in the poet's words — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through 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... | |
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