...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...

...consistent faith 'sooner than creeds or formulas. And this he knew who wrote of his friend : " Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds." The New Priest in Conception Bay. Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co. This novel has at least one recommendation,...

...Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue oycs Are tender over drowning flics, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. i know not: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question...jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplcxt in faith, but pure in deeds, jI" At last ho beat his music out. There lives more faith in...

...received by tradition ; and we can accept, in their true significance, the words of the poet-laureate : " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Similar is the same poet's description of the acquisition of true faith : " He fought his doubts and...

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..."Then we will doubt everything." And Mr. Tennyson, as the minstrel of this whole sect, exclaims, — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." But those who adopt this view should not blind themselves to the fact, that, to all practical purposes,...

...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...

...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...

...Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes Are tender over drowning flies, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. I know not: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest...

...inspiration from the Niagara acclivities of his spiritual organization. He could not say, with Tennyson — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." He was not enough critical and reasonable (or philosophical) to engender and fearlessly to entertain a...