 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...Bible to show that we must all of us, in our solitary thinking, arrive at last where we shall say : — I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1868 - 400 pages
...Him." (Job xxii. 8.) So it will always be in approaching God in our present fallen state. " I stumble where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs, That lead through darkness up to God." But these are the approaches to... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.), F. H. Doyle - 1869 - 142 pages
...secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear; • ' I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God:' — he would not, so far as I am concerned, have improved his picture by... | |
 | 1870 - 748 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds, She often brings bat one to bear, "I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I str Irh lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...seen i meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds, She often brings but one to bear, •• I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I str tch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Nina Cole - 1870 - 432 pages
...the end. But Marjory could not feel this yet— she could only grope on blindly, falteringly — " Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God," aided, perhaps, by the little aunt's prayers, who ceaselessly watched and prayed for her darling —... | |
 | Book - 1871 - 366 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust, and chaff, and... | |
 | Boston Episcopal Charitable Society - 1871 - 116 pages
...can continue in the evening shade which overtakes the suffering. There they lie. " Falling with their weight of cares, Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God," human compassion ascend to meet and mingle with it, until the sufferers are every where encompassed... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
