The Religious Souvenir: A Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day PresentKey, Mielke and Biddle, 1836 - Gift books |
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Adele affections Art thou beamed beautiful behold blessed bosom breath bright brother brow Caroline child Christ Christian clouds Connecticut dark dear death deep divine dreams earth earthly Ellen Williams Emily Ephesus eternal faith father fear feel felt flowers friends gazed glorious glory God's grave grief hand Hannah Smith happy hath heart heaven Herbert holy hope hour human hymn immortal infant Jesus LABAN LAMECH light lips live looked Lord Malvina MANTON EASTBURN ments mercy Migdol mind moral morning mother mountain nature ness o'er parents passed peace Pliny poetry pray prayer precious present pure rapture redemption remember rose Sacred Mirror satisfied Saviour scenes seemed shade shine smile soon sorrow soul spirit sublime sure sweet tears thee thine thing thou thought throne tion TRIUMPH OF LOVE truth TUBAL voice waters wing Wyoming young Zebulon Butler ZORAH
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Page 137 - I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; Because thou didst it Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Page 223 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 284 - Scripture is the only cure of woe : That field of promise, how it flings abroad Its odour o'er the Christian's thorny road ! The soul, reposing on assured relief, Feels herself happy amidst all her grief, Forgets her labour as she toils along, Weeps tears of joy, and bursts into a song.
Page 198 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Page 257 - Cannot forget thee here ; where thou hast built, For thy own glory, in the wilderness ! Me didst thou constitute a priest of thine, In such a temple as we now behold Reared for thy presence ; therefore am I bound To worship, here and everywhere...
Page 256 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 96 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 54 - Oh ! the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and goodness of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! One more kiss, dear Malvina.
Page 168 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 194 - Verily I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.