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
| Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1875 - 506 pages
...dear friends, Jesus the Christ is to-day, " No dead fact stranded on the shore Of the oblivious years, But warm, sweet, 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,... | |
| Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1875 - 144 pages
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| 1875 - 606 pages
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| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 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... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
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| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1878 - 516 pages
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| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
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| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
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| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1878 - 794 pages
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