Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Wakefield: Missionary in East Africa

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A. Crombie, 1888 - 237 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 22 - Plenteous grace with Thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin; Let the healing streams abound; Make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art, Freely let me take of Thee; Spring Thou up within my heart! Rise to all eternity!
Pàgina 5 - Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby...
Pàgina 23 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Pàgina 29 - We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way THE BUILDERS.
Pàgina 212 - Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll While the tempest still is high; Hide me, O my Saviour hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.
Pàgina 27 - One family we dwell in him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death.
Pàgina 21 - I would the precious time redeem, And longer live for this alone, To spend, and to be spent, for them Who have not yet my Saviour known ; Fully on these my mission prove, And only breathe, to breathe thy love.
Pàgina 12 - LIFT your eyes of faith, and see Saints and angels joined in one ; What a countless company Stand before yon dazzling throne ! Each before his Saviour stands, All in milk-white robes arrayed ; Palms they carry in their hands, Crowns of glory on their head.
Pàgina 4 - Ah, why did I so late thee know, Thee, lovelier than the sons of men ! Ah, why did I no sooner go To thee, the only ease in pain ! Ashamed, I sigh, and inly mourn, That I so late to thee did turn.
Pàgina 89 - The God of Abraham praise, At whose supreme command From earth I rise — and seek the joys At his right hand ; I all on earth forsake, Its wisdom, fame and power, And him my only portion make, My shield and tower.

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