A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources |
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... breath , they die , and return to their dust . For all men have one entrance into life , and the like going Ye know not what shall be on the morrow . For what is your life ? It is even a vapour , that appear- eth for a little time , and ...
... breath , they die , and return to their dust . For all men have one entrance into life , and the like going Ye know not what shall be on the morrow . For what is your life ? It is even a vapour , that appear- eth for a little time , and ...
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... breath , we die and return to the dust . In death as in life , in sorrow as in joy , thou art waiting to bless us , if we will but turn to thee . Thou dost gird and guide us , though we know it not ; and the shadow with which thou ...
... breath , we die and return to the dust . In death as in life , in sorrow as in joy , thou art waiting to bless us , if we will but turn to thee . Thou dost gird and guide us , though we know it not ; and the shadow with which thou ...
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... breath in our nostrils is as smoke , and a little spark in the moving of our heart which being extinguished , our body shall be turned into ashes , and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air , and our name shall be forgotten in time ...
... breath in our nostrils is as smoke , and a little spark in the moving of our heart which being extinguished , our body shall be turned into ashes , and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air , and our name shall be forgotten in time ...
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... breath ; all flesh shall perish together , and man shall turn again unto dust . In a moment shall they die , and the people shall be troubled at midnight , and pass away : and the mighty shall be taken away without hand . For his eyes ...
... breath ; all flesh shall perish together , and man shall turn again unto dust . In a moment shall they die , and the people shall be troubled at midnight , and pass away : and the mighty shall be taken away without hand . For his eyes ...
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... breath of the power of God , and a pure influence flow- ing from the glory of the Almighty : therefore can no defiled thing fall into her . For she is the brightness of the everlasting light , the unspotted mirror of the power of God ...
... breath of the power of God , and a pure influence flow- ing from the glory of the Almighty : therefore can no defiled thing fall into her . For she is the brightness of the everlasting light , the unspotted mirror of the power of God ...
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A. C. Swinburne Absalom Alfred Tennyson Alice Cary angels Anonymous beautiful behold Blessed breath bright bright promise child cloud cometh dark days go dead dear death Dora Greenwell doth dust earth eternal eyes faint fair faith Father fear feet flowers forever friends gates Gerald Massey give giveth giveth his beloved glory God's gone grave grief hand hands to God hath heart heaven holy hope Horatius Bonar Hymns immortal J. G. Fichte J. G. Whittier Leopold Schefer life's light live look Lord mercy morning mortal never night o'er pain passed patient peace Poems praise prayer Putnam Quiet Hours rest righteousness river Schaff & Gilman shadow shine sing sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stars strength Sursum Corda sweet tears tender thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought troubled trust truth voice wait weary weep wisdom
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Page 36 - LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 20 - And He said unto her : What wilt thou ? She saith unto Him : Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on Thy right hand, and the other on the left, in Thy kingdom.
Page 71 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 57 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 31 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 145 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 62 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 13 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 10 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, And there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die : And their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction ; But they are in peace.
Page 4 - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.