Life's Eventide, Or, Loving Words to Aged Pilgrims, Edició 399

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S.W. Partridge & Company, 1883 - 126 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 30 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.
Pàgina 44 - And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Pàgina 92 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting ? MAN SHOULD STUDY HIMSELF, AND NOT PRY INTO GOD.
Pàgina 92 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death...
Pàgina 8 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Pàgina 30 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. O, how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ! But Thou canst read it there.
Pàgina 105 - So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Pàgina 40 - If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee.
Pàgina 52 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Pàgina 16 - Whence not one soul can e'er return 4 Yet, while the shore on either side Presents a gaudy, flattering show, We gaze, in fond amazement lost, Nor think to what a world we go.

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