 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1845 - 640 pàgines
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we, to men benighted, The lamp of life deny?" — HEBBR. BRIGHTLY the summer sun arose upon Lough Gill, flinging- a shower of bright... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1834 - 472 pàgines
...every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Salvation! O salvation! The... | |
 | Hymns - 1834 - 294 pàgines
...What, though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen, in their blindness, Bow down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high... | |
 | Thomas Russell - 1834 - 612 pàgines
...What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; — The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are... | |
 | Lowell Mason - 1834 - 582 pàgines
...What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile? — In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | Edward Davies (of Kingswinford.) - 1834 - 266 pàgines
...What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | 1854 - 1184 pàgines
...for there first I saw man, made in the image of God, bowing down to worship the stock of a tree. " In vain with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn, The Heathen in hij blindness Bows down to wood and stone." \Ve must now go on board another steamer, called the Erin,... | |
 | Church missionary society - 614 pàgines
...cry aloud to those, who have the means, to shed Gospel light on the awful darkness of that land >. Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny. Salvation ! Oh, Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation ' "WE WAIT... | |
 | Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 236 pàgines
...What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness The gifts...strewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.69 While use of the word "heathen" was common, it was unkind, injudicious, and inaccurate... | |
 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith - 1991 - 360 pàgines
...What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. The hymn had extremely wide use in... | |
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What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of GOD are strewn ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 
