...strongest form the excuses for doubt, proceeded to say of himself: — 1 falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great...altar stairs That slope through 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...

...Blessed Saints — adoring evermore, The Glorious and Eternal Paraclete. CAMW THE LEA.VEN AT WORK. " The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to GOD." TENNYSON. MAY not these lines be permitted to suggest a two-fold connection with the great Anglican...

...1851. . //7, /7, LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. JOHN DRAYTON. CHAPTER I. "Fall Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God— And gather dust, and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all—" DAVID BRUCE is saying these...

...the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day" — xlix. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great...Altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God." — liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground" — xi. "With blasts that blow the poplar white" —...

...on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day."—xlix. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's Altar stain That slope through darkness up to God."—liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground."—xi....

...When this fine overplus of might, No longer sullen, slow or dumb, Shall leap to music and to light." " The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God." 176 THE ALTERNATIVE AND THE CHOICE. CONTENTS. Appeals and phantasies. Moral influence and bayonets....

...the Gauls were entering Rome. Alas ! we who can see further than did they, standing as we do higher upon — " The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God," may see how vain and hopeless was that old faith to which they clung BO fondly. Outworn it was indeed,...

...around, will fail often to detect one clue to the mystery of evil; and faith can only throw herself Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. So far, however, as the problem can be solved poetically — by exhibiting, that is, the real relations...

...the reeds, in spots where neither tame nor wild animals were to be found. {To be continued.) GEOLOGY. "The great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God." — TENNYSON'S "In Memoriam." The age of miracles hath passed ! Say rather, The work miraculous is...

...to direct communion with the air. An irreverent mind stands out of chord with nature on any level of the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. And how can one that lives among the mountains, with an insight that penetrates their purposes and...