Jessie's visit to the sunny bank, by M.C.B.1883 |
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Page 64 - Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way, That mark out the mountain's track?" " They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him tack." " Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn ?" "They are pierced to-night by many a thorn.
Page 49 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough - For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers.
Page 64 - Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ? " ' 'They are pierced to-night by many a thorn." But all through the mountains, thunder-riven, And up from the rocky steep, There rose a cry to the gate of heaven, " Rejoice ! I have found my sheep ! " And the angels echoed around the throne, "Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own !
Page 49 - Our outward life requires them not ; Then wherefore had they birth ? — To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth. To comfort man, — to whisper hope Whene'er his faith is dim ; For who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him ! THE WOODLAND SANCTUARY.
Page 17 - The little girl did as her Bible taught, And pleasant, indeed, was the change it wrought ; For the boy looked up...
Page 64 - Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way That mark out the mountain's track ? " " They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him back." " Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ? ' "They are pierced to-night by many a thorn.
Page 16 - I'll be kind to my darling brother. For " Little children must love each other " I'm sorry he's naughty, and will not play, But I'll love him still, for I think the way To make him gentle and kind to me, Will be better shown, if I let him see I strive to do what I think is right, And thus when we kneel in prayer to-night, I will clasp my arms around my brother, And say, " Little children love one another.
Page 16 - Little children, love one another." She thought it was beautiful in the book, And the lesson home to her heart she took; She walked on her way with a trusting grace, And a dove-like look in her meek young face; Which said, just as plain as words could say, "The Holy Bible I must obey: So, mamma, I'll be kind to my darling brother; For 'little children must love each other.
Page 16 - A LITTLE girl, with a happy look, Sat slowly reading a ponderous book, All bound with velvet and edged with gold, And its weight was more than the child could hold ; Yet dearly she loved to ponder it o'er, And every day she prized it more ; For it said — and she looked at her smiling mother — It said, " Little children, love one another.
Page 52 - God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believe th in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.