 | Church congress - 1891 - 438 pages
...commence to assert themselves. The path of true Church progress on earth always must be rough : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! " No strange thing is happening to us in Wales. It is an instance of a law that pervades all Church... | |
 | George Gillanders Findlay - 1891 - 212 pages
...perfect in thankfulness, grateful for the bitter as well as for the sweet in their experiences, — for "each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go." Such cheerfulness of soul needs strong faith, and is won through hard trial. Rom. v. 3 — 5 supplies... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1891 - 296 pages
...and ruin, will yet shine out, the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. "Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1891 - 294 pages
...the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. " Then welcome each retmrr, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;... | |
 | Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - 1891 - 108 pages
...Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed . . . Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
 | 1891 - 728 pages
...different thing from the magnificent dauntlessness which flings out Rabbi Ben Ezra's grand challenge — ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joy three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 pages
...fronted us with elements that rouse soul-powers and call for conflict. He has not let us alone : ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go ! Be our joy three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...to solely seek and find and feast : Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men. August Sixth. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 pages
...disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. VI. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go ! Be our joys three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never... | |
 | 1925 - 564 pages
...smoothness rough, and yet to continue to say with fundamental serenity: — Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe ! It is only thus that a man and an artist can thereafter achieve the philosophic mind shown so clearly... | |
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Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! 
