...faith is but an artistic freak. The voice of modern denial speedily re-affirms : ' Now He is dead 1 Far hence He lies In the lone Syrian town ; And on...grave, with shining eyes The Syrian stars look down.' There is nothing left for it but to toil on in a waste and weary world full of ' forts of folly ' manned...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. " Now he is dead ! Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town, And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. " In vain men still, with hoping new, Regard his death-place dumb, And say the stone is not yet to,...

...which Arnold, after describing the rush of feeling Christ's religion awoke in the East, announces, " Now he is dead! Far hence he lies In the lone Syrian...grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down." Who can fail to be struck by the different tone of feeling? dough is a man among men, a sufferer among...

...went, And open etood his grave ; Men called from chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. Now he is dead ! Far hence he lies In the lone Syrian...grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. Elsewhere we read : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the...

...apostle of culture tells us that men no longer believe "Now he is dead. Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town, And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down." and he adds — "Your creeds are dead, your rites are dead, Your social order too. Where tarries he,...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. " Now he is dead. Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town, And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. " In vain men still, with hoping new, ] Regard his death place dumb, And say the stone is not yet to,...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Chriat was by to save. " Xow He it dead. Far heneo he lies In tho lorn Syrian town ; And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. And among the most recent utterances of this kind We find the following in the Pull Mall Gazette, which...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. Now He is dead. Far hence He lies In the lorn Syrian town ; And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. It is true that the last, with much more to the same effect, is not expressed in the poet's own person,...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. " Now He is dead. Far hence He lies In the lorn Syrian town, And on His grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. ******* " Your creeds arc dead, your rites are dead, Tour social order too. Where tarries He, the Power...

...chamber, church, and tent, And Christ was by to save. Now he is dead! Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town, And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. In vain men still, with hoping new, Regard his death-place dumb, And say the stone is not yet to, And...