A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources |
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... memories and Christian hopes . In the midst of grief and solitude give to us the prayer of gratitude and praise . As we perceive that the things which are seen are temporal , so much the more may we find that the things which are unseen ...
... memories and Christian hopes . In the midst of grief and solitude give to us the prayer of gratitude and praise . As we perceive that the things which are seen are temporal , so much the more may we find that the things which are unseen ...
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... memory ! May he also , if he behold us , bless us ! for we need his blessing . Greatly we need it , with these hopeless yearnings for his presence ; these fears that we did not do all we might have done for him ; this almost shame at ...
... memory ! May he also , if he behold us , bless us ! for we need his blessing . Greatly we need it , with these hopeless yearnings for his presence ; these fears that we did not do all we might have done for him ; this almost shame at ...
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... memory of a lost past , —nothing in our present is so real as they , and toward our unknown future we go with a great and solemn gladness , beckoned by their presence . S. Merriam . - Geo . This is the change that comes . We are not ...
... memory of a lost past , —nothing in our present is so real as they , and toward our unknown future we go with a great and solemn gladness , beckoned by their presence . S. Merriam . - Geo . This is the change that comes . We are not ...
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... Memory of J. T. F. Until we meet again ! That is the meaning Of the familiar words , that men repeat At parting in the street . Ah yes , till then ! but when death intervening Rends us asunder , with what ceaseless pain We wait for the ...
... Memory of J. T. F. Until we meet again ! That is the meaning Of the familiar words , that men repeat At parting in the street . Ah yes , till then ! but when death intervening Rends us asunder , with what ceaseless pain We wait for the ...
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... memory must decay - Heaven is too pure for such as they . They are complete ; their work is done . So let them sleep in dream- less rest . Love's life is only here begun , nor ∙ is , nor can be , fully blest ; It has no room to spread ...
... memory must decay - Heaven is too pure for such as they . They are complete ; their work is done . So let them sleep in dream- less rest . Love's life is only here begun , nor ∙ is , nor can be , fully blest ; It has no room to spread ...
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A. C. Swinburne A. H. Clough Absalom Alfred Tennyson Alice Cary angels Anonymous beautiful behold Blessed breath bright bright promise canst child cloud cometh dark days go dead dear death doth dust earth eternal evermore eyes faint fair faith Father fear feel feet flowers forever Frances Anne Kemble friends gentle Gerald Massey give giveth his beloved glory God's gone grave grief hand hath heart heaven holy hope Horatius Bonar immortal J. G. Whittier Leopold Schefer life's light live look Lord Mary Howitt mercy morning mortal never night o'er pain passed patient peace Poems prayer Quiet Hours righteousness river saith say unto Schaff & Gilman shadow shine sing sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stars strength Sursum Corda sweet tears tender thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought troubled trust truth voice wait weary weep wisdom