For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean... Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons - Página 28por Theodore Parker - 1852Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Oscar William Coursey - 1916 - 376 páginas
...auaint and old; renowned today perhaps only for the history it brings to mind as the traveler passes by: "For humanity sweeps onward; Where today the martyr...in front the cross stands ready And the crackling fagots bum, While the hooting mobs of yesterday In silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Northern Oratorical League - 1916 - 366 páginas
...did goes marching on; and in the great summing up of things, what matters it that the body suffered ? "For humanity sweeps onward, where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Mrs. Ruth Frances (Davis) Stevens, Ruth Frances Davis Stevens, David Harrison Stevens - 1917 - 194 páginas
...prophethearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| William Herbert Carruth - 1917 - 152 páginas
...increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns. (TENNYSON.) For humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands. (LOWELL.) Beams of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten, As she stands... | |
| James Albert Winans - 1917 - 632 páginas
...long and weary the waiting, at last, — " 'Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice doue. For humanity sweeps onward : Where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow orouohos Judas With the silver in his hands.' " Not all attempts at reform arouse mob violence, but... | |
| 1918 - 596 páginas
...his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For humanity sweeps onward : where to-day...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| 1918 - 808 páginas
...prophets' hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward; where today the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. m, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee: the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Jesse Madison Gathany - 1919 - 340 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where today the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return 5 To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
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