...jested. Certainty that truth did somewhere exist was fundamental in his belief, witness the lines, " It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, Truth is so." What that truth was, Clough did not profess to know, but while it remained to inspire him he could...

...Spirit, as in all, henceforth regards no creature with contempt. Quoted by REV. JE CARPENTER. TKUTH. It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish,...if I slip, thou dost not fall. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. OUR PETS. We, dying, fondly hope the life immortal . To win at last ; Yet all that live must through...

...Sure help. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, 1849 •WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING." TT fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth...if I slip, Thou dost not fall. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH TRANQUILLITY. O FEVERED eyes, with searching strained Till both the parching globes are pained, At...

...sufferings, that they may be for Thee. 7. God's Immutability. I am the Lord, I change not. — MAL. 3 : 6. IT fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish,...stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. O God, who never changest, but abidest ever a firm Refuge to all who seek Thee, help me, Thy weak and...

...whelming seas of doubt. Here has been something for the heart to rest upon mid whelming seas of pain. " I steadier step, when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall." The symbol has been elastic ; and men have sometimes put into it such horrible imaginations that one...

...And say, what is not, will be by-and-by. ' WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADO w OF TURNING: IT fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish,...when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. ' PERCHE PENSA1 PENSANDO S' INVECCHIA! To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again,...

...TOV ®eov earrjicev — steady amid all the rockings of human systems ; as sang Arthur Clough : — " It fortifies my soul to know, That, though I perish,...when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall." Preached — Westminster Abbey, June 23, 1872. St. Mary's, Oxford, November 17, 1872. Cambridge University,...

...spirit of prayer and communion in them than volumes of so-called prayers and works of devotion : — " It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish,...when I recall That, if I slip, thou dost not fall." This is confidence that all the great interests of the world are in the hands of an Infinite Power,...

...fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW (A Psalm of Life). 47 IT fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish,...when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. CLOUGH. 48 Ens ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or...

...was, that seemed, Am not, whate'er I seem. ' WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING.' IT fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish,...when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. IN STRATIS VIARUM. BLESSED are those who have not seen, And who have yet believed The witness, here...