A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources |
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... grief which selfishness would teach . O Death ! the fairest lands beyond thy sea Lie waiting , and thy barks are swift and staunch And ready . Why do we reluctant launch ? And when our friends their heritage have claimed Of thee and ...
... grief which selfishness would teach . O Death ! the fairest lands beyond thy sea Lie waiting , and thy barks are swift and staunch And ready . Why do we reluctant launch ? And when our friends their heritage have claimed Of thee and ...
Page 125
... grief depart . He will give back what neither time , nor might , Nor passionate prayer , nor longing hope restore , ( Dear as to long blind eyes recovered sight , ) He will give back those who are gone before . Oh , what were life , if ...
... grief depart . He will give back what neither time , nor might , Nor passionate prayer , nor longing hope restore , ( Dear as to long blind eyes recovered sight , ) He will give back those who are gone before . Oh , what were life , if ...
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... grief is strong , And years and days so long , so long : Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as I go , That I am glad the good and ill By changeless law is ordered still , " Not as I will . " " Not as I will : " the ...
... grief is strong , And years and days so long , so long : Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as I go , That I am glad the good and ill By changeless law is ordered still , " Not as I will . " " Not as I will : " the ...
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... grief , if the departed , Being released from earth , should still retain A sense of earthly pain : It were a double grief , if the true - hearted , Who loved us here , should on the farther shore Remember us no more . Believing , in ...
... grief , if the departed , Being released from earth , should still retain A sense of earthly pain : It were a double grief , if the true - hearted , Who loved us here , should on the farther shore Remember us no more . Believing , in ...
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... grief which words may lighten ; Not mine the tears of common woe : The pang with which my heart - strings tighten , Only the All - seeing One may know . And oh ! in my exceeding weakness , ― Make thy strength perfect ; thou art strong ...
... grief which words may lighten ; Not mine the tears of common woe : The pang with which my heart - strings tighten , Only the All - seeing One may know . And oh ! in my exceeding weakness , ― Make thy strength perfect ; thou art strong ...
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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 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 prayer Putnam Quiet Hours R. H. CHARLES 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 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 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 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 31 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 30 - Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 78 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart : Be strong, fear not : behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense ; he will come and save you.
Page 39 - I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death ; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 24 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth ; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. For He maketh sore, and bindeth up ; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles ; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.