JUST God ! — and these are they Who minister at Thine altar, God of Right ! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! "WTiat ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious... Poems: By John G. Whittier, Illus. by H. Billing - Page 145by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! servants of thine own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! These and other verses of a like kind show the moral purpose of Whittier's early work, which is perhaps... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...altar, God of Right ! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...altar, God of Right ! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy...glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door 1 What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast,... | |
| Wilson Armistead - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 384 pages
...altar, God of right ! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of Light ! What ! preach and kidnap men ! Give thanks — and rob Thy...The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...misty air." CHAPTER VI. THE RELIGIOUS TEACHER. " WHAT ! preach and enslave men ? Give thanks—,and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt bard the captive's door?"—Whittier. THE Eev. John Peck was a native of the state of Connecticut,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...prayer and blessing lay What ! preach, and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poorf Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the...Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the ontcast — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends I Chief priests... | |
| William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - History - 1858 - 338 pages
...blessing lay On Israel's ark of light! What 1 preach — and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thine own afflicted poor? Talk of Thy glorious liberty —...then Bolt hard the captive's door? What! servants of thine own Merciful SOD, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...altar, God of Kight! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! preach, and kidnap men ? Give thanks, — and rob...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilot and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...altar, God of Right ! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob thy...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave f Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...altar, God of Right! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! preach, and kidnap men ? Give thanks, — and rob...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilot and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
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