 | 1835 - 700 pages
...ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life from the dead is in that word, Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam ; Yet...pitch my moving tent A day's march -nearer home.' Of this form of illustrating the simplest themes by language and images, at once homely and poetical,... | |
 | England - 1867 - 810 pages
...For ever with the Lonl, Amen, so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that word : "TIs immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home," &c. And another — " There is a better world, they say, Oh, so bright ! Where sin and woe are done... | |
 | Christian life - 1869 - 346 pages
...a prospect spread before us of the everlasting home, as sometimes incites us to say — " ' Ah, now my spirit faints To reach the land I love, • The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above.' " There is the hill of worldly losses," continued my father, " of hopes disappointed, and well-laid... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...ever with the Lord! " Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word ; 'Tis immortality. ' Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. ' My Father's house on high ! Home of my soul! how near, At times, to Faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1834 - 636 pages
...with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word -. "I'is immortality. ' Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. • My Father's house on high ! Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to Faith's foreseeing eye Thy... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pages
...Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near,...to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem... | |
 | Church history - 1836 - 368 pages
...the body spent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A diiy's march nearer home. My father's house on high ! Home of my soul ! how near At times to faith's foreseeing eye, The golden gates appear. Ah ! then my spirit faints To reaeh the land of love, The bright inheritance... | |
 | Hymns - 1840 - 464 pages
...FOB ever with the Lord !" Amen, so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet...march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high, Home I to my soul how dear i I long to see thee, and I sigh Within thee to appear ! 4 My thirsty spirit... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1840 - 760 pages
...TjlOREVER with the Lord ! JD Amen, so let it be ! Life from, the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam; Yet...pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 Forever with the Lord ! Father, if 'tis thy will, The promise of that faithful word, E'en here to me... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," she went on, " I feel him near. 'My Father's house on high ! Home of my soul, how...to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear 1' ' shall soon be there, and we shall meet 'uin. Yes, we shall meet again." STARK.— Feb. 28, 1872,... | |
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Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 
