| Association for discountenancing vice - 1856 - 180 pages
...to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. J 4 The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God. 5 Only, O Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above ; And help us, this and every day, To... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 578 pages
...all around us vise I How would nur hearts with wisdom talk, Along life's dullest, dreariest walk 1 4. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. 522. LM 1. WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before... | |
| H. HUTCHINS - 1856 - 186 pages
...set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will pro-side for sacrifice. 4 The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God. 5 Only, () Lord, in Thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above ; And help us, this and ev'ry day,... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Congregational churches - 1856 - 506 pages
...with wisdom talk, Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! 4. The trivial round, tho common task, AVill furnish all we ought to ask ; — Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. 522. LM 1. WHEN Israel, of tho Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before... | |
| 1856 - 492 pages
...nothing vain. All may be brought into captivity to Christ. '' The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." TB 8. POETRY. THOUGHTS ON VISITING NORMANTON. NORMANTON-ON-THE-HEATH — secluded spot ! Little art... | |
| Edward J. Dent - Music - 1979 - 320 pages
...rise to a climax in line 4 itself. Take another example: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. This is not quite so exciting, but more sophisticated. Observe, in line 3, the ingenious dodge by which... | |
| Daniel Cottom - Literature and society - 1987 - 276 pages
...Christian Year(in which sympathy is also a key work): "The trivial round, the common task, / Would furnish all we ought to ask; / Room to deny ourselves; a road / To bring us, daily, nearer God."' Of course, labor in Eliot's time and in the times of which she wrote would exceed the individual because... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...Keble, in "The Christian Year," would have us remember that The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. For well-nigh thirty years in Nazareth, Jesus knew all about this "trivial round, the common task,"... | |
| Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us this and every day To live... | |
| Caroline Seabury - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 164 pages
...own good. The world is full of objects to whom we can be ministers of good, if we will seek for them. "The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves—the road That leads to glory and to God."It seems so much easier to yield when heavy burdens... | |
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