...idea further than Dr. Stanley has done. Lamenting the evil that he saw around, it seemed to him that " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand." If Dr. Stanley had followed out to the end the flight of Herbert's poetic fancy, he would look for...

...between The spacious world and Jurie to be seen. Religion stands on tip-toe in our land,* Readie to passe to the American strand. When height of malice, and...lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, CThe marks of future bane,) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our measure up ; * " When...

...Herbert on the translation of Protestantism to America from England in this way. Herbert says, — "Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames, By letting in them both, pollute her streams, Then shall...

...the New England just coming into existence on the shores of the Western hemisphere, and wrote — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." His forebodings for Britain have not been fulfilled. The " candlestick" is not " removed out of his...

...Christian principles, and those in Europe who sympathized with them re-echoed the boast, and complained — Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. It is hardly necessary to say that the Catholic religion has never possessed in any country, or any...

...eager for spiritual adventure naturally turned. So conservative a churchman as George Herbert wrote: Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. The official censor hesitated to allow the book containing these lines, so dangerous to those who suffered...

...the Church of England, crystallized this thought a few years later in the words — " Religion stands tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice and prodigies, lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcraft, and distrusts, The marks of future bane, shall fill...

...the land of which saintly George Herbert prophesied such wonders in his Church Militant, saying, ' Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.' This, too, was the theme of Sir Thomas Browne's rhymed Prophecy, and especially was it the text of...

...p. 322. ' The Chureh Militant ' is full of the sentiment, and in it oeeurs the famous eouplet : *- Religion stands on tiptoe In our Land Ready to pass to the Ameriean strand." but Vaughan doubtless alluded to " The Chureh Militant " as a whole, whore the '...

...would prove beneficial to Europe, to the civilized world, and to Christendom. Herbert wrote, — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." l l The lines of Herbert were first published in <•• The Temple," in 1633. The vice-chancellor...