 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
 | Robert Marshall Offord - 1889 - 412 pages
...in the days of his flesh. He hears your cry, and feels the clinging of your faith about his heart. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he ; And love has yet its Olivet, And love its Galilee. The healing of the seamless dress Is by our beds of... | |
 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - 1890 - 540 pages
...away! Shine out, O Light Divine, and show How wide and far we stray! 4 We may not climb the heavenjy steeps To bring the Lord Christ down, In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him no depths can drown. 5 In joy of inward peace, or sense Of sorrow over sin, He is His own best evidence, His Witness is... | |
 | Velma C. Williams - 1890 - 280 pages
...reign, The world's long hope is dim ; The weary centuries watch in vain The clouds of heaven for Him. 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 ;... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 pages
...shows us how necessary Christ is to-day to the purest spirits and freest thinkers of our century: — " We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. "Our outward lips confess the name All other names above ; Love only knoweth whence it came, And comprehendeth... | |
 | 1891 - 542 pages
...confess the Name All other names above; Love only knoweth whence it came, And comprehendeth love. 3 We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 4 Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in... | |
 | Henry Frederic Reddall - 1891 - 588 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... | |
 | Julian Kennedy Smyth - 1891 - 248 pages
...mythic lore, Nor dream of bards and seers, No dead fact stranded on tbe 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 bed of pain ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 408 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 466 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... | |
 | 1892 - 598 pages
...All other names above; Love only knoweth whence it came, And eomprehendeth love. 3 We may not cliirtb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down;...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 4 Nor holy bread, nor blood of gni|K; The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in... | |
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