...auspicate all our proceedings in America with the old Church cry, " Sursum corda." George Herbert wrote: " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." May I try to show that every fact of your early history emphasizes the religious prophecies which thus...

...so well was leaving England, though possibly to bear still more glorious fruits in the unknown West. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. If we inquire where the strength of this great movement lay, why with so much of pride, of assurance,...

...expected. George Herbert in a poem entitled "The Church Militant," published in 1633, said : — " Eeligion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." — Id. Of these prophecies, some are now wholly fulfilled, * These quotations are from an article...

...that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." Even saintly Herbert wrote that, — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the 'Merican strand." One of the most homely and pathetic scenes of this exodus is that portrayed in "The...

...Jury to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our laud,1 Roadie to passe to the American strand. 240 When height of malice and prodigious lusts, Impudent...The marks of future bane — shall fill our cup Unto tho brimme, and make our measure up; When Sein shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames, By letting-iu them...

...TURNS TO FREEDOM S LAND. GEOKCE HERBERT, an English poet. Born at Montgomery, Wales, 1593; died, 1632. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF COLUMBUS. ANTONIO HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, an eminent Spanish historian. Born...

...Restore to God his due in tithe and time : A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. GEORGE HERBERT. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. GEORGE HERBERT. The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion...

...shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree. a. HERBERT — Temple. Church Porch. St. 76. soul, the seas are rough, and thou n stranger In these false coasts; 0 keep 6. HERBERT— The Church Militant . L. 235. My Fathers and Brethren, this is never to be forgotten...

...English Language and Literature, Mason College, Birmingham. Above all things, Liberty,—]. SELDEN. Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.— G. HERBERT. Our names, familiar in their mouths as household wvnfs.— Vf. SHAKESPEARK. LONDON: WARD...

...than the quest for land, and George Herbert was expressing a deep feeling of his time when he wrote Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. At the outset of no other history except at the beginning of the Hebrew migration to Canaan was the...