 | 1843 - 844 pàgines
...all their course; Fire ascending to the sun, Both speed them to their source. Thus a soul, new-born of God, Pants to view his glorious face, Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace." Loosing sight of earth and its corroding cares, forgetting for a time the sorrows of the world, the... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1847 - 670 pàgines
...and haste away, To seats prepared above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the sun, — Both speed them to their source ; So a soul, that 's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face; Upward tends to his abode, dol To rest in his... | |
 | Arthur Tappan Pierson - 1892 - 292 pàgines
...alien, and fly to the shelter of the mother. " Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the sun ; , Both speed them to...Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace." If you have such affinity and attraction toward God, you could go nowhere else but to heaven ; and... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - 1893 - 224 pàgines
...soul, and haste away To seats prepared above ! 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire, ascending, seeks the sun, — Both speed them...that's born of God Pants to view His glorious face, TJpward tends to His abode, To rest in His embrace. 3 Cease, ye pilgrims! cease to mourn, — Press... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson, Edward Judson - 1892 - 548 pàgines
...soul, and haste away To seats prepared above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the sun ; Both speed them to their source : So a soul that 's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face ; Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace.... | |
 | 1893 - 180 pàgines
...soul, and haste away To seats prepared above. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire, ascending, seeks the sun, — Both speed them...Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace. R. SEAGRAVE. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide, The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide. AVhen... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1893 - 640 pàgines
...those words which are so familiar to us : — " Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun, — Both speed them...Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace." Nothing in all the range of the universe can find rest except in its appropriate orbit, sweeping round... | |
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Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place : Sun and moon and stars decay ; Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepared above. 
