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
| David James Burrell - 1892 - 328 pages
...glorious Christ. " We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; We may not search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown...warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he ; For faith has still its Olivet And love its Galilee. The healing of his seamless dress Is by our... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 608 pages
...Why forward reach, or backward look. For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heaveuly steeps 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... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 392 pages
...lore, Nor dream of bards and seers, 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 ;... | |
| David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 pages
...world's spiritual energy. He dwells among us, a living, loving, striving, helpful, glorious Christ. We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; We may not search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown ; But warm, sweet, tender, even yet... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson, Edward Judson - 1892 - 548 pages
...alone, And wholly live to thee. John Newton. SERENITY. CM Arr. fr. WV WALLACE lowest deeps,! We m»y not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In rain we lurch the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. 370 Cljr hut C«t. WE may not climb the... | |
| 1893 - 294 pages
...GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 186 ' Thou shati call His name Jesus : for He shall save His people from their sins." 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 His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ;... | |
| Lyman Abbott, Charles Henry Morse, Herbert Vaughan Abbott - 1893 - 606 pages
...The mists of earth away ! Shine out, O Light Divine, and show How wide and far we stray ! PART II. [ We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 2 The letter fails, and systems fall, And every symbol wanes ; The Spirit over-brooding all, Eternal... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 602 pages
...peculiar an instance of the providential care and exuberant goodness of God !" 359 The true Test. CM WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he ; And faith has yet its Olivet, And love its... | |
| General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1893 - 554 pages
...hold of me. [hold Daleburst. ARTHUR COTTMAN. t I v\ — I 4181 1 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. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 pages
...lore, Nor dreams of bards and seers, 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." I think of Jesus Christ as present in the world to-day, the... | |
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