The Additional and Selected Hymns: From "Hymns, Ancient and Modern," and "Hymns for Church and Home"

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Dutton, 1870 - Hymns, English - 345 pages
 

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Page 307 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 16 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore Him, in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all...
Page 49 - Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 45 - Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
Page 10 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death...
Page 29 - My faith looks up to thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour Divine. Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, O let me from this day Be wholly thine.
Page 18 - ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed? And did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I?
Page 57 - THE heavens declare thy glory Lord ; In every star thy wisdom shines ; But when our eyes behold thy word, We read thy name in fairer lines. 2 The rolling sun, the changing light, And nights and days thy power confess ; But the blest volume thou hast writ, Reveals thy justice and thy grace.
Page 173 - God may not depart. 3 Lead us to holiness — the road That we must take to dwell with God ; Lead us to Christ the living way, Nor let us from his precepts stray.
Page 36 - But what to those who find ? Ah ! this Nor tongue nor pen can show ; The love of Jesus, what it is None but His loved ones know.

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