A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources |
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... doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God for- gotten to be gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? And I said , This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High . [ Ps ...
... doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God for- gotten to be gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? And I said , This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High . [ Ps ...
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... doth come . But know this , that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come , he would have watched , and would not have suffered his house to be broken up . Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour ...
... doth come . But know this , that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come , he would have watched , and would not have suffered his house to be broken up . Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour ...
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... the Lord , my soul doth wait , and in his word do I hope . My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning : yea , more than they that watch for the morning . Let Israel SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS . 25 ASPIRATION.
... the Lord , my soul doth wait , and in his word do I hope . My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning : yea , more than they that watch for the morning . Let Israel SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS . 25 ASPIRATION.
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... doth not afflict willingly , nor grieve the children of men . [ Lam . iii . ] If ye love me , keep my commandments . And I will pray the Father , and he shall give you another Com- forter , that he may abide with you for ever ; even the ...
... doth not afflict willingly , nor grieve the children of men . [ Lam . iii . ] If ye love me , keep my commandments . And I will pray the Father , and he shall give you another Com- forter , that he may abide with you for ever ; even the ...
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... doth he meditate day and night . And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water , that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; his leaf also shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper . [ Ps . i . ] What ...
... doth he meditate day and night . And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water , that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; his leaf also shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper . [ Ps . i . ] What ...
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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.