Songs in the Night: Or, Hymns for the Sick and Suffering |
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... bliss Before my soul , I cried , ' O ! spare me here , O no , not this ! ' Like one that having need of , deep within , The surgeon's knife , Would hardly bear that it should graze the skin , Though for his life . Nay then but he , who ...
... bliss Before my soul , I cried , ' O ! spare me here , O no , not this ! ' Like one that having need of , deep within , The surgeon's knife , Would hardly bear that it should graze the skin , Though for his life . Nay then but he , who ...
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... and unwrought , For God is love . Yes , God is love , a thought like this - Can.every gloomy thought remove , And turn all tears , all woes , to bliss , For God is love . PILGRIM ! IS THY JOURNEY DREAR ? Leave me not 12 12 HYMNS .
... and unwrought , For God is love . Yes , God is love , a thought like this - Can.every gloomy thought remove , And turn all tears , all woes , to bliss , For God is love . PILGRIM ! IS THY JOURNEY DREAR ? Leave me not 12 12 HYMNS .
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... bliss ; Love so precious , Bids me every fear dismiss . PLEADING FOR MERCY . Have mercy upon me , O Lord , for I am weak ; O Lord heal me , for my bones are vexed . - Psalm 6 : 2 . IN mercy , not in wrath , rebuke Thy feeble worm , my ...
... bliss ; Love so precious , Bids me every fear dismiss . PLEADING FOR MERCY . Have mercy upon me , O Lord , for I am weak ; O Lord heal me , for my bones are vexed . - Psalm 6 : 2 . IN mercy , not in wrath , rebuke Thy feeble worm , my ...
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... that anxious friend I trace , Beloved , till life's last throb shall cease , Whose voice first taught a Saviour's worth , And future bliss unknown on earth . His faithful counsel , tender care , Unwearied love , 20 HYMNS .
... that anxious friend I trace , Beloved , till life's last throb shall cease , Whose voice first taught a Saviour's worth , And future bliss unknown on earth . His faithful counsel , tender care , Unwearied love , 20 HYMNS .
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... bliss and joys above ; Himself he emptied of all good , but love ; For me he freely did forsake More good than he from me can ever take ; A mortal life for a divine He took , and did at last even that resign . Take all , great God , I ...
... bliss and joys above ; Himself he emptied of all good , but love ; For me he freely did forsake More good than he from me can ever take ; A mortal life for a divine He took , and did at last even that resign . Take all , great God , I ...
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Page 247 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 156 - HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled breast ; 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary, rest.
Page 239 - RISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings^ Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven thy native place : Sun and moon and stars decay ; Time shall soon this earth remove : Rise, my soul, and haste away, To seats prepared above.
Page 45 - GO to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter's power, Your Redeemer's conflict see, Watch with him one bitter hour ; Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Page ix - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Page 67 - If Thou shouldst call me to resign What most I prize, it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what is Thine : "Thy will be done.
Page 18 - SOME murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue : And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy, gild The darkness of their night.
Page 81 - By Thy helpless infant years, By Thy life of want and tears, By Thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness, By the dread mysterious hour Of the insulting tempter's power ; Turn, oh, turn a favouring eye, Hear our solemn Litany...
Page 82 - IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Page 39 - My times are in thy hand," Whatever they may be; Pleasing or painful, dark or bright, As best may seem to thee. 3 " My times are in thy hand ;