 What ! preach and kidnap men! Give thanks, — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, —...  National Lyrics - Page 11by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Floyd Dell - 1924 - 320 pages
...then With uprolled eyeballs and on bended knee, Whining a prayer for help to hide the key." And again: "Pilate and Herod, friends! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!" "Woe to the priesthood! woe To those whose hire is with the price of blood; Perverting, darkening,... | |
 | 1874 - 618 pages
...who their hands with prayer and blessings lay On Israel's Ark of linhtl Pilate and Herod, frii-uds, Chief Priests and rulers, as of old, combine! Just God and holy! is that church which leuds Strength to the : n •. I r thine? How long, O Lord! how long Shall snch a pricnthood barter... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1982 - 164 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | Milton C. Sernett - 1999 - 612 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1893 - 424 pages
...impressive character of the scene." One is not surprised, after this, to find the poet exclaiming : " What ? Servants of Thy own Merciful Son, Who came...Church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? " All through the course of the long agitation which culminated in the Presidential election of 1861,... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 pages
...and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? "What! servants of thy own Merciful Son. who came...church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1858 - 310 pages
...poor? Talk of Thy glorious liberty — and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What! servants of thine own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave 1 Pilate and Herod, friends 1 Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine! Just God and holy! is that... | |
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