 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
 | A. E. C. - 1894 - 216 pages
...one of his hymns, we shall find, however, that he was not quite just in his estimate of himself — " We may not climb the heavenly steeps, To bring the...Christ down, In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him Who fills Heaven's Throne. But to the contrite spirit yet, A present help is He, And faith has still... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 592 pages
...forward reach, or backward look. For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steppt To bring the Lord Christ down : In vain we search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. Nor holv bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
 | Charles Clayton Morrison - 1925 - 392 pages
...Beyond the power of words, the divine is humanized in Galilee — wondrous, golden, glorious Galilee! 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. n A second reason why I love to walk in Galilee is this: Since... | |
 | Irene Louise Hunter - 1925 - 344 pages
...Love, forever full, Forever flowing free, Forever shared, forever whole, A never-ebbing sea! ******** We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. ******** The letter fails, and systems fall, And every symbol wanes; The Spirit over-brooding all And... | |
 | Irene Louise Hunter - 1925 - 358 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 The healing of His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch Him in life's throng... | |
 | William Forbes Cooley - 1925 - 240 pages
...mythic 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 hath still its Olivet, And love its Galilee." Whittier: "Our Master." mostly intellectual to shrug... | |
 | Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church - 1925 - 976 pages
...steeps 2. The heal - ing of the seam-less dress To bring the Lord Christ down; Is by our beds of pain; In vain we search the low-est deeps, For Him no depths can drown. We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole a - gain. A - MEN. ^— 1-fr ^ r 3 Through... | |
 | Robert Borneman Ludy - 1926 - 578 pages
...use, even among the Friends, who are not much given to hymn singing. Among his most popular hymns is: 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. While in Philadelphia, Whittier usually attended services at... | |
 | 1927 - 490 pages
...cold wave I will not flee, Since God through Jordan leadeth me. — Rev. Joseph H. Gilmore Our Master 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. Through Him the first fond prayers are said Our lips of childhood... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear; Why forward reach, or backward look. For love that clasps like air? is We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 20 Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in... | |
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