| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever ly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday...; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears h We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
| 1881 - 696 pages
...it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — " Vet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAG HUMANITAS REGNANS. With finger on lip and breath bated, With an easier and sad desire, The world... | |
| L. U. Reavis - 1881 - 58 pages
...confirmation of a great poetic truth: " Wrong forever on the throne ; Right forever on the scaftold ; But that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." On assuming the office of Chief Executive of the nation, Pres ident Lincoln was called upon, at once,... | |
| Joseph Cook - 187? - 170 pages
...record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; But tiie yet-veiled rules the future, and behind the dim Unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." * * Lowell, "The Present Crisis." IS CONSCIENCE INFALLIBLE? THERE is a celebrated oration by Massillon,... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 1881 - 1018 pages
...avenger ; history's pages but record Truth forever on the scuflold, wrong forever on the throne ; Tet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God In the darkness keeping watch above His own. After speaking in all the chief cities from Leavenworth... | |
| 1882 - 408 pages
...formulated we can only say, not always shall Truth be ever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; For that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch upon His own. Ellen B. Ferguson. THE people of Utah are sailing amid troubled waters. What was once... | |
| 1882 - 1434 pages
...Prudentum. To a close-shorn sheep, God gives wind by the measure. _;. HERBERT— Jacula Prudentum. nd fc. LOWELL— The I'resent Crisis. St. 8. What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support;... | |
| 1883 - 748 pages
...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...God within the shadow keeping watch above his own." Here is another stanza : "Then to side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her... | |
| 1883 - 502 pages
...December day, when the brave, misguided old man expiated on the scaffold the rashness of his deed. " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." In those dark days we, too, trusted in an arm of flesh, and when the Chicago Convention set aside William... | |
| Charles Samuel Eby - 1883 - 324 pages
...— 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...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. In this latest of the centuries, the whole heavens are aglow with the light of a coming better day,... | |
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