 | Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 204 Seiten
...scaffold, wrong forever on the throne," yet, when we look more deeply, we are compelled to add : — " Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is only the natural course of human history. The " God within the shadow " is only the power... | |
 | 1901 - 702 Seiten
...darkness, 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...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is the faith that sustains us amidst the present commotions that threaten sometimes to unseat... | |
 | 1900 - 1050 Seiten
...darkness, 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...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is the faith that sustains us amidst the present commotions that threaten sometimes to unseat... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 Seiten
...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, and behind the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." The orthodox pastors, however, had gone a step too far. Public opinion strongly manifested itself against... | |
 | D. S. Gregory - 1880 - 360 Seiten
...darkness '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...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAMES RUSSKLL LOWELL. " For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | 1918 - 756 Seiten
...wrote those lines : i ; "Right forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne ; Yet thiTscaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." It was the same view of history that the poet of Locksley Hall had in mind when he said: "Yet I doubt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 Seiten
...whoso party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield... | |
 | 1880 - 918 Seiten
...whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong. And further on : Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne : Yet that scaffold sways... | |
 | 1895 - 736 Seiten
...forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne : Yet that scaffold sways the future ; And heliind the dim unknown Standeth God, within the shadow. Keeping watch above his o^'n." * * * I have instanced these examples to show that language consists more in the thought it... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1881 - 34 Seiten
...when forty years ago he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future : And behind the...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." And yet the book-men, as a class, have not yet acknowledged him. It is here that letters betray their... | |
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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. 
