| Jens Christian Roseland - 1890 - 928 pàgines
...sustained him in the hour of death. I have often heard him quoting the sweet lines: 'Jesus can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my soul out sweetly there.' He would not be likely to forget this in his last struggle! He used often... | |
| William F. Sudds - 1890 - 178 pàgines
...fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. p 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast I lean my head, dim And breathe my life out sweetly there! AMEN. 57 Isaac Watta. /1 Sovereign of worlds, display Thy... | |
| Arthur Joseph Munby - 1891 - 438 pàgines
...faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."—Rev. 2nd. 10 ver. Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lay my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there. " Ilook for the resurrection of the dead and the... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson, Edward Judson - 1892 - 548 pàgines
...Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there! BEST. L H. 1138 ASLEEP in Jesus! blessed sleep! From which none ever wake to weep ; A calm and undisturbed... | |
| Richard Chappell Parsons - 1892 - 310 pàgines
...In the hymn, " Why should we start, and fear to die," occurs that verse— " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breath my life out sweetly there." If Dr. Watts had never written a word beyond these four lines he... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 602 pàgines
...Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. 4 Jesus can make a dying bed • Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there! LM In Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts' Hymns and Spirit ual Songs, 1707, this piece was first published, with... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 pàgines
...if my Lord would come and meet, My soul should stretch her wings in haste, 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there ! In Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts' Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, this piece was first published, with the... | |
| Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1893 - 636 pàgines
...could I bear it ?" At another time, he said, " I have often heard those lines, ' Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are. While on his breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.' But 0 ! the difference between hearing it and feeling it! now I feel it, O ! the peace and happiness... | |
| Elizabeth L. Comstock - 1895 - 534 pàgines
...ear, and touch a chord of memory when all others were forgotten, I said,— ' Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.' LIFE AND LETTERS OF [1862. He opened his eyes, and, with an earnest appealing look at me, tried to... | |
| Isaac Haight Beardsley - 1898 - 620 pàgines
...near him the wife and children in tears, while he was shouting and singing,— 'Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.' —Hymnal, 976. This gloriously triumphant death made a profound impression on that community. Each... | |
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