 Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands...  THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE - Pàgina 93per HODGES SMITH - 1856Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Nicol Farquhar - 1913 - 484 pàgines
...that, through his gross religion, the savage can reach God — That the savage hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened. As the writer once heard a good man say in a public meeting, ' Religion must be a very simple thing... | |
 | William Patrick McKenzie - 1914 - 40 pàgines
...vision of Longfellow describes the experience of men in all ages, — But the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened. In spite of the great number of those who found clarification of thought and the cure of bodily distress... | |
 | Samuel Angus - 1914 - 282 pàgines
...succour as men have in all ages stretched forth hands to God for help. ' . . . Feeble hands and helpless Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and helped.' The human soul has always been the ' lyre for the plectrum of the Paraclete.' We, the heirs... | |
 | William Arthur Tatchell - 1914 - 174 pàgines
...personal touch with practical Christianity, and we sincerely believe that such Feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness. The oppressive heat of the summer began seriously to affect Rees' health. He could not sleep, and was... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pàgines
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...Listen to this simple story, To this song of Hiawatha." And so with many others. Longfellow was a wonderful story-teller, and all men enjoy good stories ;... | |
 | Mary Baker Eddy - 1915 - 114 pàgines
...in feeble diction Truth's ultimate. In Longfellow's language, — But the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened. As sweet music ripples in one's first thoughts of it like the brooklet in its meandering midst pebbles... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1915 - 228 pàgines
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not; And their feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened." At the other end of the scale, Coleridge says, "The act of praying is the very highest energy of which... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1916 - 522 pàgines
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...Listen to this simple story, To this Song of Hiawatha! The story of Hiawatha's Childhood, his Fasting, his Friends, his Sailing, his Fishing, his Wooing,... | |
 | William Ennis Hamilton - 1916 - 308 pàgines
...longings, yearnings, strivings, For the good they comprehend not. That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened. But while this thought is very pleasing we must confess that as a matter of fact this "groping blindly... | |
 | 1858 - 478 pàgines
...God and Nature, Who believe with all your spirit In benevolence eternal, Inexhaustible and perfect ; Ye who sometimes in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the Clematis and brier Intertwine their arms in wedlock, Pause to dvink a draught of pleasure, Far apart... | |
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