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... cloud - no lure to stay My soul , as home she springs ; Thy sunshine on her joyful way ; Thy freedom on her wings . Moore . REFLECTIONS . WITH regard to Christianity , confirm your belief of the au- thority of Scripture , for which you ...
... cloud - no lure to stay My soul , as home she springs ; Thy sunshine on her joyful way ; Thy freedom on her wings . Moore . REFLECTIONS . WITH regard to Christianity , confirm your belief of the au- thority of Scripture , for which you ...
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... clouds should rain Harvest never shall obtain . Signs and tokens false may prove ; Trust thou in a Saviour's love , In His sacrifice for sin , And His Spirit's power within . Keep thou Zion - ward thy face , Ask in faith the aid of ...
... clouds should rain Harvest never shall obtain . Signs and tokens false may prove ; Trust thou in a Saviour's love , In His sacrifice for sin , And His Spirit's power within . Keep thou Zion - ward thy face , Ask in faith the aid of ...
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... clouds , the colour of the sky , The gentle breeze that whispers by , The fields , white o'er with waving corn , The lilies that the vale adorn , The reed that trembles in the wind , The tree on which no fruit we find , The barren sand ...
... clouds , the colour of the sky , The gentle breeze that whispers by , The fields , white o'er with waving corn , The lilies that the vale adorn , The reed that trembles in the wind , The tree on which no fruit we find , The barren sand ...
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... clouds and showers its scent bestow , And purest joy is born of woe . He who each bitter cup rejects , No living spring shall quaff : He whom Thy rod in love corrects , Shall lean upon Thy staff ; Happy , thrice happy , then , is he Who ...
... clouds and showers its scent bestow , And purest joy is born of woe . He who each bitter cup rejects , No living spring shall quaff : He whom Thy rod in love corrects , Shall lean upon Thy staff ; Happy , thrice happy , then , is he Who ...
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... cloud my mind , And prompt to sins unknown ; The dream dissolve , the chain unbind , And make me all Thine own . Croly . REFLECTIONS . BE very careful to speak truth ; and beware of lying . As lying is displeasing to God , so is it ...
... cloud my mind , And prompt to sins unknown ; The dream dissolve , the chain unbind , And make me all Thine own . Croly . REFLECTIONS . BE very careful to speak truth ; and beware of lying . As lying is displeasing to God , so is it ...
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Page 60 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven. New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 60 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 18 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 62 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 36 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high. Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Page 34 - Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 28 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
Page 60 - Sow in the morn thy seed, At eve hold not thy hand, To doubt and fear give thou no heed, Broadcast it round the land. Beside all waters sow, The highway furrows stock, Drop it where thorns and thistles grow, Scatter it on the rock.
Page 60 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...