 We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May...  Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting - Page 89by General Association of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts - 1903Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 632 pages
...rapidly in mental stature, it becomes important that its moral growth should keep pace with this. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in as dwell, That mind and soul according well, May make one music as before, But raster." And the means... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Hymns, English - 1870 - 748 pages
...their day, and cease to be , They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord ! art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know, For knowledge...from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music, as before. UNION WITH CHRIST. "ABIDE in Me,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870 - 628 pages
...their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord! art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know, For knowledge...from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one musie, as before. WE WERE NOT WITH THE FAITHFUL.... | |
 | Rose Porter - American fiction - 1870 - 184 pages
...day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. " We have but faith; we cannot know; For knowledge is...from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell, That mind and soul, according well, May make one Music, as before. "But vaster" I cannot tell why,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1870 - 528 pages
...hesitate, — albeit for a moment only, — to accept the poet's reverent and humble confession : " We have but faith, we cannot know ; For knowledge...comes from thee, A beam in darkness ; let it grow !" Adopting, rather than presumptuously denying, this tender and ingepuous plea of human ignorance... | |
 | 1897 - 1272 pages
...other method — living by faith — might be dismissed at once as the idle dream of a visionarj." We have but faith, we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see, says Tennyson, as if knowledge were superior to faith. If knowledge is of things we see, and if faith... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1870 - 780 pages
...finite. Let the searcher for truth prove what he can, and then bow reverently before the infinite. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell, That mind and soul, nceording well, May make one music as before, But vaster." 4. Let the modern thinker... | |
 | Annie Carey - Brothers and sisters - 1870 - 174 pages
...should be brought, as near as possible, to that truth of things which we have at present reached. " Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make our music as before, But vaster !" AC July <)th, 1870.... | |
 | 1870 - 674 pages
...upon us, there would be occasion for the more thoughtful among us to exclaim with the poet-laureate, ' Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul according well, May make one music as before. But vaster—we are fools, and slight,... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...free to examine and criticise, and by all means try to get fuller knowledge and ever clearer light? Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell. That mind and soul according well May make one music as before, But vaster. Too long has it been the... | |
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