 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1852 - 938 pages
...conqueror. Slowly but surely, unhasting, unresting, still it cometh. ** Рог sometimes glimpse!» on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right : And step by step, since time began, 1 see the steady gain of man." The distant tread of advancing millions, like low rumbling thunder,... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1855 - 904 pages
...conqueror. Slowly but surely, unhasting, unresting, still it cometh. " Por lometlmes glimpse] on my light, Through present wrong the eternal right : And step...step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man." The distant tread of advancing millions, like low rumbling thunder, is borne to our ear. Our finer... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...spake my friend, one autumn day, Where the still river slid away Beneath us, and above the brown Red curtains of the woods shut down. Then said I, —...I, too, am weak, and faith is small, And blindness happeueth unto all. " Yet, sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal rig'it... | |
 | John Cumming - End of the world - 1862 - 550 pages
...answered. In the words of a sweet poet — " Sometimes flashes on my sight, Through present wrongs, the eternal right ; And step by step since time began I see the steady gain of man. "And still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold. Slaves rise up men — -the olive... | |
 | John Cumming - Prophecy - 1865 - 378 pages
...the voice of mighty thunders, and as the voice of a great multitude praising God. " Sometimes flashes on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal right...step since time began, I see the steady gain of man. And still the new transcends the old, 'With signs and tokens manifold. Slaves rise up men ; the olive... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson - Hymns, English - 1865 - 540 pages
...holy faith ! We will be true to thee till death. 670. OLD AND NEW. LM O, SOMETIMES gleams upon our sight, Through present wrong, the Eternal Right! And step by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man ; — That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 738 pages
...angel harps employ, When thou shalt all renew ? 780 L- Mnn Neto. O SOMETIMES glearaa upon our sight, 9 Through present wrong, the Eternal Right ! And step by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man ; — 2 That all of good the past has had Remains to make our own time... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...When thou shalt all renew ? 780 LM WniTTIEB. ©if c airti Ufeto. O SOMETIMES gleams upon our sight, 9 Through present wrong, the Eternal Right ! And step by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man; — 2 That all of good the past has had Remains to make our own time... | |
 | John Cumming - Eschatology - 1867 - 348 pages
...the voice of mighty thunders, and as the voice of a great multitude praising God. " Sometimes flashes on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal right...step since time began, I see the steady gain of man. And still the new transcends the old, With signs and tokens manifold. Slaves rise up men ; the olive... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...spake my friend, one autumn day, Where the still river slid away Beneath us, and above the brown Red curtains of the woods shut down. Then said I, —...my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal right 5 And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man : « That all of good the past... | |
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And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man : " That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad,— Our common daily life divine, And every land a Palestine. 
