...consolation, and leads us to acknowledge a Father's loving hand in our severest trials. So true is it that— " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Of these lessons, so precious in themselves, and so abiding in their effects, the man who has never...

...380. 16 Tennyson. (In Memoriam, I.) : I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. SERMON III. 1 Acts xvii. 18. 2 See Hume's Essay on Miracles. Strauss' New Life of Jesus. Introduction,...

...come between other two ; eg : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. •' But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro" time...

...sorrow profits much." — Eumen., 491- 94. But with this recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," there is also a consciousness, dim and dark, as of one groping after a truth which he feels rather...

...thou scorner of the ground ! Skelley. I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. PIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Figures of speech are intentional deviations from the ordinary form,...

...springs best out of the ashes .of the old ; that the soundest reformation ever comes from within — " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The opposite opinion has been widely fostered by the hatred for innovations which is naturally cherished...

...lesson which taught you your own frailty, your own unworthiness. Do you remember that some one has said that men may rise "« On stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things' ? And our sinful selves should be our dead selves, my dear. Now we will talk about something else....

...how the solemn act of dying with Him begins the glory of a new and divine life in the heart ? how " Men may rise on stepping.stones Of their dead selves, to higher things? " But mark, here, that the fact of Christ living in you is as deep and transforming an energy as we...

...immediately after he had uttered it, — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." But to our subject. No one, who has studied Eenan's work with attention, can help discovering that...

...we need not regret, because — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in various tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things." Ever affectionately yours, LA FOUGÈRE. " I HAVE no sympathy with any one who would disenchant the...