 | Sermons, American - 1890 - 668 pages
...nothing more beautiful than are these expressions of his. In a tribute to his own brother, he says : " Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | 1879 - 640 pages
...with whatever doctrines or traditions he can render palatable. Infidel Comfort in Bereavement. — " Life is a narrow vale, between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 284 pages
...a tragedy as sad, and deep, and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. And Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the hights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | James Baird McClure - Rationalism - 1879 - 192 pages
...a tragedy as sad, and deep, and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. And Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the hights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Spiritualism - 1880 - 408 pages
...emotional element in his nature, changed his tone somewhat while in the face of death, and said : " Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities ; we strive in vain to look beyond the heights ; we cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1880 - 340 pages
...1838. Even the most noted "skeptic" of the present day obtains a glimpse of the grandest of truths : Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | Junius Benjamin Remensnyder - Future punishment - 1880 - 420 pages
...become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven from the warp and woof of mystery and death. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1881 - 172 pages
...loving service to bring a blossom to his grave he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of fl iwers. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing... | |
 | John E. Cutler - 1881 - 196 pages
...taken from the pen of one Whose metaphores we very much admire, But whose consistency we fail to see. ' Life is a narrow vale between the cold And barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud : our only answer is The mocking echo of our... | |
 | George Chainey - Bible - 1882 - 162 pages
...imagine a beginning in time is as impossible as to think of an end to space. As Col. Ingersoll says, " Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights." That which we understand as time is but the mile-stones... | |
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. 
