 | American Unitarian Association - 1914 - 72 páginas
...INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION in nans rtIpr but tift Ifouet at (Koll. anfi Iljia ia Oft gate nf foranm. We love the venerable house Our fathers built to God;...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. Here holy thoughts a light have shed From many a radiant face, And prayers of humble virtue spread... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1914 - 576 páginas
...pondered here The mystery of life, And prayed the Eternal Light to dear Their doubts and aid their strife. From humble tenements around Came up the pensive train, And in the church a blessing found, That filled their homes again; For faith, and peace, and mighty love, That from the Godhead flow, Showed... | |
 | Lyman Simpson Hayes, William Danforth Hayes - 1915 - 136 páginas
...fostering the public interest and knowledge in historical matters. THE HOUSE OUR FATHERS BUILT TO GOD We love the venerable house Our fathers built to God;...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. Here holy thoughts a light have shed From many a radiant face, And prayers of tender hope have spread... | |
 | Lyman Simpson Hayes, William Danforth Hayes - 1915 - 140 páginas
...pondered here The mystery of life, And prayed the Eternal Spirit clear Their doubts and aid their strife. From humble tenements around Came up the pensive train,...a blessing found, Which filled their homes again. For faith and peace, and mighty love, That from the Godhead flow, Showed from the life of heaven above... | |
 | 1918 - 72 páginas
...includingleading reformers and thinkers. This hymn was written in 1846. 43 '''. Tune No. 368 Bristol. WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. Here holy thoughts a light have shed From many a radiant face, And prayers of tender hope have spread... | |
 | Bernard Lord Manning - 1919 - 220 páginas
...different from that modern sentimental affection which Emerson has perfectly enshrined in. his verses : We love the venerable house Our fathers built to God...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. The attitude of the fourteenth century was less human, more theological. Reverence was more a matter... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1921 - 260 páginas
...then a trifle and a disturbance. I am a lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." CHAPTER X PIETY "We love the venerable house Our fathers built to...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. "Here holy thoughts a light have shed* From many a radiant face, " And prayers of humble virtue made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1939 - 672 páginas
...Chandler Robbins, Emerson's successor as pastor of the Second Church (Works, 9:223-224, 448). The text We love the venerable house Our fathers built to God;...kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. Here holy thoughts a light have shed From many a radiant face And prayers of (humble virtue made) /tender... | |
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WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God ; — In heaven are kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. 
