 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.  Good Words - Seite 5231887Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twix old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
 | 1888 - 474 Seiten
...with ua and we shall triumph. *• Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever "on the throne, Tet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." REPORT ON CHINESE WORK. BY RBV. SIMEON OILBKBT, DD, CHAIRMAN. 1. Is it worth while to attempt Christian... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 Seiten
...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. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
 | 1905 - 640 Seiten
...am weary (if I may say so honourably) of my life." BA Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth (Jod within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. Ком Омво. [JR Lowell, 'The Present Crisis.']... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 Seiten
...death-grapple, in the darkness, 'twixt old systems and thj Word : Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne , Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth Progress in the shadow, keeping watch above its own. No less remarkable than his political consistency... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 Seiten
...in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever oh the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.'' In taking a retrospect of the past, the present stands osten> sibly amazed and shocked at the treatment... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 388 Seiten
...sake. Amen. CHAPTER XIII. THE SARACENS AND HAGARENES. " 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." " For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free-woman. But... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 564 Seiten
...the " word ;" Truth forever or the scaffold, Wrong forever or the throne, Yet that scaffold sways a future, And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." And this is the first time that this preacher of Christian politics has named God in the whole sermon... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...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...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith, how weak an arm may turn... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 332 Seiten
...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, —...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." 2. So with Truth. Veracity is a social virtue. Society nurtures it, tries it, manifests it. In solitude,... | |
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