...evil, and such like problems, which lead inevitably to endless mazes of metaphysical obscurity : — Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine. Do you desire a poet's testimony to the doctrinal truth that there is no merit in man, or man's best...

...evil, and such, like problems, which lead inevitably to endless mazes of metaphysical obscurity :— Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine. Do you desire a poet's testimony to the doctrinal truth that there is no merit in man, or man's best...

...that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ! 2 Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 3 Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights...

...and brute, Thou madest death, and lo ! Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made. " Thou art both human and divine; The highest, holiest manhood Thou...know not how Our wills are ours to make them Thine." SEEM 0 N VII. JOHN iii. 16. — '• For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,...

...thinking about its being God's will. Miss Alice told me two lines that I often think of now— " ' Our wills are ours, we know not how: Our wills are ours, to make them Thine." " " I see," said Olive: and Emily went on. " Miss Alice read me some other things one day when I felt...

...interfere with his own copyright. In p. vi., ' Our little systems have their day ; They have thtir day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they,' is thus closely rendered : — • • Faulisper florent humana ncgotia,...

...And here the words of Tennyson become appropriate : — " Our little systems have their day, — They have their day and cease to be, They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 God, art more than they." In reference to this subject we quote Lord Macaulay's words : — " A system...

...Now, this reasoning is most unfair. The remainder of the verse implies his godhead — " Our wills arc ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine." The verses which follow are a prayer to Christ, imploring from him light and aid, wisdom and forgiveness....

...condition of moral growth " unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the fullness of the stature of Christ." "Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...know not how, Our wills are ours to make them thine." And this glorious Freedom is the final salvation of the soul ; this serene security of self-dependence...

...redeemed, over which Christ is the Governor.' ' His people are made willing in the day of His power.' ' Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours to make them Thine.' We cannot submit them to a lifeless code of laws, still less to a selfish account of profit and loss;...