 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth foiever on the scnM'old, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the. future, and, behind the dim...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 the... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...trumpets and bugles calling strong souls onward to a victory which Heaven might envy, and "Where, bebind the dim Unknown. Standeth GOD within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." I thought that women ought to have the ballot as I paid the hard-earned taxes upon my mother's cottage... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. In this passage the metaphor identifies a good cause, its struggles and certain... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1878 - 314 pages
...record One death-grapple in the darkness, 'twixt old systems and the Word; But the yet veiled rules the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." Adapted from LOWELL: The Present Crisis. [Applause.] VI. THE FIRST CAUSE AS PERSONAL. THE EIGHTY-SIXTH... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...Lord will speak : for He will speak peace unto His people and to His saints " (Ps. Ixxxv. 8). XIII. " And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." — Anon. ' There is a promise to particular saints — ' I will never leave THEE, nor forsake THEE.'... | |
 | Joseph Osgood Barrett - 1878 - 412 pages
...ashes into History's golden urn. Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God in the darkness keeping watch above his own." "Illustrative of Mr. Beecher's style, when a fellow-boarder... | |
 | 1879 - 556 pages
...'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. * * * • " Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings... | |
 | 1889 - 690 pages
...that " Truth " is " forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne." But he believes that " Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." He does not deny what Lowell says : — " By the light of burning heretics Christ's bleeding feet I... | |
 | Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1879 - 272 pages
...ceases to take care of his children. " Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne: Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God w1thin the shadow, keeping walch above his own ~ 2. God saves us not from all trouble, but in trouble,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim...within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Plow of faith, how weak an arm may turn the... | |
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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. 
