There Is a Green Hill Far Away

Cecil Frances Alexander, 1848

What power is there in man to move heaven and earth, when he hardly has the power to know himself or the virtue to act upon that knowledge, even in the limited scope that human action enjoys? I do believe in the natural virtues.

When the old Roman general Regulus was captured by the Carthaginians, they sent him to Rome with a truce to propose, but onl…