 | Pennsylvania. Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools - 1884 - 132 pagina’s
...loyal citizens, which shall stand a tower of strength and power against opposing elements, and, " When to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side!" they will more than cancel the debt they owe the country by patriotic devotion to its best interests.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 pagina’s
...earthward, to be drank up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pagina’s
...earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light, Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shah... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 472 pagina’s
...mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift Hash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious,...or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, ottering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,... | |
 | S. R. Parchment - 1996 - 136 pagina’s
...that attracted his attention were the following, from The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell : "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to...and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light THE JUST LAW OF COMPENSATION "Careless seems the Great... | |
 | Mary White Ovington - 1996 - 188 pagina’s
...Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, on the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. We had an enormous program before us. An association pledged... | |
 | Everette E. Dennis, Edward C. Pease - 228 pagina’s
...moment in time reminds me of a hymn I used to sing in high school as part of our daily service. It said, "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to...truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side." We are now at such a moment. This is a moment to decide if we want the communications revolution to... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...with something to He who would write and can't write, can surely review. 6580 'The Present Crisis' at counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs...ideas. 9450 It has been wisely said that we cannot r 6581 'The Present Crisis' Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 pagina’s
...puritanical convictions in no uncertain thunder. These lines are from his poem "The Present Crisis." Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and the light.101 In the first line, instead of writing "once" I would... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1999 - 308 pagina’s
...of 1845 that was to become, for the next hundred years and more, a battle hymn of the Social Gospel: Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...God's new Messiah, Offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by for ever 'Twixt that darkness and that light. By the light of burning martyrs... | |
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon... 
