Category Archives: Europe as the Christ-bearer
Lo! He Abhors Not the Virgin’s Womb
Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning, Jesus, to thee be all glory giv’n; Word of the Father now in flesh appearing; After a verbal exchange with Feste, who is Lady Oliva’s fool, Viola, the heroine of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
The Reptiles
Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle … Continue reading
The Beautiful Gate
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his … Continue reading
Our Hope and Our Faith
I call a commonwealth Regicide, which lays it down as a fixed law of nature, and a fundamental right of man, that all government, not being a democracy, is an usurpation; that all Kings, as such, are usurpers, and for … Continue reading
Who Follows in Their Train?
Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear land of story-books. -Robert Louis Stevenson The late John Tyndall of Britain and the late Samuel Francis of the American South, the one the … Continue reading
The Great Mystery
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be … Continue reading
He Hath Borne Our Griefs
Lo! I will declare the best of dreams which I dreamt in the middle of the night, when human creatures lay at rest. It seemed to me that I saw a wondrous tree rising aloft, encompassed with light, the brightest … Continue reading
