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... , while every other writer falls far below , Charles Wesley being second with fifty . Dr. Watts was delicate in health and small in build , but lived to be seventy - four years of age . Once , in a London coffee house , he was.
... , while every other writer falls far below , Charles Wesley being second with fifty . Dr. Watts was delicate in health and small in build , but lived to be seventy - four years of age . Once , in a London coffee house , he was.
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... fall asleep in school and be awakened by a brutal usher hitting him on the head with a clothes brush , a proceeding which possibly , helped to bring on a brain fever , the effects of which continue to this day . But whatever other ...
... fall asleep in school and be awakened by a brutal usher hitting him on the head with a clothes brush , a proceeding which possibly , helped to bring on a brain fever , the effects of which continue to this day . But whatever other ...
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... falling of a tear , The upward glancing of an eye , When none but God is near . Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The majesty on high . Prayer is the Christian's ...
... falling of a tear , The upward glancing of an eye , When none but God is near . Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The majesty on high . Prayer is the Christian's ...
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... falling , cried , " O Lord , cover me with a corner of thy plaidie . " He lay a few minutes and all seeming quiet he took heart of grace and , lifting his head , found himself enveloped in a thick mist , through which he made his escape ...
... falling , cried , " O Lord , cover me with a corner of thy plaidie . " He lay a few minutes and all seeming quiet he took heart of grace and , lifting his head , found himself enveloped in a thick mist , through which he made his escape ...
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... fall Upon the stage of men , Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again . Its piteous pageants bring not back , Nor waken flesh upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd Or mown in battle ...
... fall Upon the stage of men , Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again . Its piteous pageants bring not back , Nor waken flesh upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd Or mown in battle ...
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Adoniram Judson ain countrie Amen angels beautiful Behold Bible Bishop blessed blood Charles Wesley choir Christ Christian Christmas Evans church darkness door earth Edgar Page English eternal Fanny Crosby father fear give glorious glory God's hand hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Dunster hills hirelin hymn hymnology Isaac Watts Jesus John John Brown Juxta crucem king knocked land language light lil brack sheep lines lived Lone Star loving kindness mercy mighty missionary morning Nahum Tate Neumarck never night o'er Ongole poor praise prayer preach psalm quote rolled salvation sang Scotch seemed sermon sheepfol shepherd Shine sing singers solemn song soul splendid stand star of Bethlehem stood story sung tears tell thee things thou truth unto verse Vinton voice W. T. Stead Watts William Carey wonderful word writer wrote
Popular passages
Page 16 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 65 - I THINK when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with them then.
Page 20 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Page 64 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky. And spangled heavens — a shining frame Their great Original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day Doth his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.
Page 1 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 57 - . . At eve hold not thy hand ; To doubt and fear give thou no heed,— Broad-cast it o'er the land.
Page 72 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Page 7 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want ; More than all in Thee I find ; Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thy name, I am all unrighteousness ; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 30 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Page 116 - Ashamed of Jesus ! that dear Friend On whom my hopes of heaven depend ! No ; when I blush, be this my shame, That I no more revere His Name.