 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...dies ? ' All things,' says the apostle, ' continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' ' The universe, open to the eye today, looks as it did...gardens of the world. We see what all our fathers saw.' True, there is continual dismemberment and disintegration. The flower fades, the animal falls to dust,... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 pages
...since the first morning, has youth been incessantly bursting forth, and creation beginning afreah. ' The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it did a thousand years ago ; the morning hymn of Milton does" but tell the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed the... | |
 | 1864 - 872 pages
...difference as would melt down the coldness of our hearts, or leave us more without excuse than we are now. We see what all our fathers saw ; and if we cannot...the roadside or the margin of the sea, ... in the day-duty or the nightmusing, I do not think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 pages
...since the first morning, has youth been incessantly bursting forth, and creation beginning' afresh. " The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it did a thousand years ago ; the morning hymn of Milton does but tell the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed the earliest... | |
 | 1907 - 1058 pages
...since the first morning, has youth been incessantly bursting forth, and creation beginning afresh. "The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it did a thousand years ago; the morning hymn of Milton does but tell the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed the earliest... | |
 | James Martineau - 1881 - 480 pages
...all things continue as they were from the beginning, — or rather the wwbeginning, — of creation. The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it...the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed xthe earliest fields and gardens of the world. We see what all our fathers saw. And if we cannot find... | |
 | William James - 1902 - 558 pages
..."liberal" Christians. As an expression of it, I will quote a page from one of Martineau's sermons: — "The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it...fathers saw. And if we cannot find God in your house or in mine, upon the roadside or the margin of the sea; in the bursting seed or opening flower; in... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...since the first morning, has youth been incessantly bursting forth, and creation beginning afresh. "The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it did a thousand years ago; the morning hymn of Milton does but tell the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed the earliest... | |
 | William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...'liberal' Christians. As an expression of it, I will quote a page from one of Martineau's sermons: — "The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it...fathers saw. And if we cannot find God in your house or in mine, upon die roadside or the margin of die sea; in the bursting seed or opening flower; in... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1997 - 260 pages
...have lost the perception of the world as disclosing the reality of God. The world has not changed, for "the universe, open to the eye today, looks as it did a thousand years ago" (VRE, 475). The perceiver has changed, and the perceiver can change again. As James puts it, "The deadness... | |
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The universe, open to the eye to-day, looks as it did a thousand years ago: and the morning hymn of Milton does but tell the beauty with which our own familiar sun dressed the earliest fields and gardens of the world. 
