 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1833 - 172 pàgines
...these efforts with His blessing. A father once led his little daughter into the grave yard, to shew her the grave of a playmate, who, a few days before,...said papa, "I now know what is meant by the hymn, 'I, iu the burying place, may see, Grave* shorter there than I.' " "My grave would be longer than this."... | |
 | 1849 - 838 pàgines
...own our obligations to the man who wrote the stanza in the old New England Primer, however homely. I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I ; From dentii's nrrest no age is free, Young children too may die. My God ! may such nn nwful sight... | |
 | 1849 - 848 pàgines
...own our obligations to the man who wrote the stanza in the old New England Primer, however homely. I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I ; From death's arrest no age is free, Young children too may die. My God ! may such an awful sight... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1855 - 324 pàgines
...occurrence of the day give a reality and an effect to your remarks which will long be remembered ? There are few children who can resist such appeals....I now know what is meant by the hymn, ' I, in the burying-place, may see, Graves shorter there than I.' " My grave would be longer than this." This dear... | |
 | Abigail Stanley Hanna - 1857 - 426 pàgines
...event, I sought my home, and spent a restless night, repeating often the childish hymn, commencing, " I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I." But the long night passed away with its sad presages, and the rising sun peeped between the thick clustering... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pàgines
...Creed. Treading close on the heels of these sublime passages intrudes some pious doggerel, beginning, I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I. This is at once succeeded by Watts's pretty Cradle Hymn, Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 358 pàgines
...Duties. 3. What we are afraid to speak before Men, we should be afraid to think before God. VERSES. I in the Burying Place 'may see Graves Shorter there than I ; From Death's Arrest no Age is free, Young Children too may die ; My God, may such an awful Sight,... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - 1904 - 436 pàgines
...true one, which parents often teach their children, and that very fitly : I will here insert it : — I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I ; From death's arrest no age is free, Young children too may die. My God, may such an awful sight Awakening... | |
 | George Malcolm Stratton - 1911 - 402 pàgines
...prey, of human enemies bent on torture and death, of 1 With such texts as this for the beginner: " I in the Burying Place may see Graves shorter there than I ; From Death's Arrest no Age is free. Young Children too may die." spirits difficult to placate and... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pàgines
...keep the Lord's Day Holy. I will reverence God's sanctuary. For our GOD is a consuming Fire. VERSES I in the Burying Place may see Graves Shorter there than I ; From Death's Arrest no Age is free, Young Children too may die ; My God, may such an awful Sight,... | |
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I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I; From death's arrest no age is free, Young children too may die; My God, may such an awful sight, Awakening be to me! Oh! that by early Grace I might For death prepared be. 
