We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. Overland Monthly - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
| 1866 - 848 pages
...forward reach or backward look For love that clasps like air ' We may not climb the heavenly steep) To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps For him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
| 1866 - 578 pages
...every heart. —WC Bryant. A PRESENT SAVIOUR. WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Saviour down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him...tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love, its Galilee. The healing of His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 184 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
| 1867 - 588 pages
...strife of tongues forbear : Why forward reach or backward look For love that clasps like air '.' We ma}- not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ...search the lowest deeps For Him no depths can drown. % " |ttfa fTork fit' Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward... | |
| 1867 - 410 pages
...study of the Scriptures, and the introduction of a large number of new scholars. A PRESENT SAVIOUR. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. The healing of the seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ;... | |
| Charles Dexter CLEVELAND - 1868 - 344 pages
...slumbering in the watch Our souls should keep with Thee. John Greenleaf Whitlier. CCL. A PRESENT SAVIOUR. WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. The healing of the seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ;... | |
| Bradford Kinney PEIRCE - 1868 - 234 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear : Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
| Crammond Kennedy - 1863 - 192 pages
...upon Him as our voluntary atoning sacrifice, as our real Passover,11 and our living Redeemer. " For warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He, And Faith has still its Olivet, And Love its Galilee. 1 ° Rev. i., 5, 6. 1 1 1 Cor. v., 7 ; and Ex. xxix., 32, 33... | |
| 204 pages
...— •' We may not climb tho heavenly etccj-s To bring tlio Lord Christ down ; In vain we search tho lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. " But warm, sweet, tender, over yet A present help is lie ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. " The healing... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1870 - 610 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore, Of Him we know in outward shape, And in... | |
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