 | George Edward Jeans - Sermons, English - 1886 - 146 pages
...fine words of Emerson, which are written up in the Hall of Marlborough College — " So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." 1 Ps. cxxi. i. 2 Ps. xxiv. 3, 4. IV. CHRISTMAS.1 (Third Sunday in Advent, 1879.) 0 Lord, who has taught... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christian life - 1886 - 482 pages
...come. Go and do your duty," and everything generous and noble in the heart responds, and says amen ! " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must I The youth replies, ' I can ! '" These are the great occasions, which come once, often not again.... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones - Christianity - 1886 - 152 pages
...1.0 6- -~t . v The Faith that Makes Faithful WILLIAM: C. GANNETT and JENKDf LLOTD JONES So nigh ls grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. CHICAGO CHABLES H. KEEK & COMPANY 1887 Copyright, 1886, By CUAILKB H. KERR & (.'OMFAXV. TO OUR... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1886 - 338 pages
...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou mutt ; The youth replies : lean." GEORGE WILLIAM CCRTIS. THE PEOPLE'S INTELLIGENCE, THE NATION'S SECURITY.... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Baptist - 1886 - 810 pages
...God is working anew by his Spirit. Emerson, in his poem entitled " Voluntariness," says: " So near n L * M{ l _Ȇ / [ݽj @B r Th& youth replies, I can." But, apart from special grace, all the ability which man at present possesses... | |
 | 1886 - 800 pages
...after they were written, seemed as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years:" — • " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, TJioumwit, The youth replies, / can." ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. A friendly correspondent some time ago favored... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1886 - 396 pages
...her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." ADVANCED FOURTH HEADER. 44. — The Robins. at-traet'ed, drawn, allured. areh'i-teet, a builder. eon-fi-den'tial,... | |
 | Education - 1886 - 712 pages
...noble life, no superhuman efforts and achievements — nothing but every-day duty faithfully done." "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man." And, some day, when a pupil stands before you with moistened eyes and says, "I never thought until... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christian life - 1886 - 490 pages
...come. Go and do your duty," and everything generous and noble in the heart responds, and says amen ! " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to mnn, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must! The youth replies, ' 1 can ! '" These are the great occasions,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1887 - 300 pages
...echoed farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined... | |
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