# Truth — Verses on Various Occasions character guide

> Truth in Verses on Various Occasions by John Henry Newman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** One grain of Holy Truth, Its

**First appearance:** 0000-epigraph

## Who they are

Personified truth, a key theme in poems.

## In the story

### [XXXVI: The Watchman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/xxxvi-the-watchman)

The watchman stands on Truth's grey height, symbolizing vigilance for divine truth.

### [XLVIII: The Course of Truth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/xlviii-the-course-of-truth)

Personified as royal truth that rose triumphant and is imparted to a few.

### [LXV: Joseph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/lxv-joseph)

Personified as lacking a sceptre only in appearance, but actually possessing it when the Substance came.

### [LXVIII: Reverses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/lxviii-reverses)

Presented as the sole exception to the universal decay of earthly gifts.

### [Relics of Saints](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/lxxix-relics-of-saints)

Quoted as the source of the statement that the Fathers live to God.

### [The Age to Come](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/lxxxv-the-age-to-come)

Personified as being without a home, despised, slain, and rising from the tomb.

### [CX: The Power of Prayer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/verses_on_various_occasions_se/chapters/cx-the-power-of-prayer)

Mentioned as 'Abidance in the Truth' as part of the spiritual discipline.

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