 | 1853 - 1644 pages
...a monotonous and unruffled existence. They do not believe it possible the time will ever come when "The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish...ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." They do not realize that these divine hopes and aspirations alone, have the power to chase away the... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky. 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." Would that the "Christian Year"1 had always so sung! That there is no natural nor necessary connection... | |
 | Elizabeth Prentiss - 1856 - 400 pages
...wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky : 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. Kola TS. OOMFOETAB -S TROUBLED *•*«• CHAPTER! 9 CHAPTER It ^ffi IHOCBLB BE CHAPTER m 20 •'**... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. 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." — KEELE. " All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE,... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1853 - 762 pages
...cannot endure hardness, as good soldiers of JESUS CHBIST. " 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." II. We should, like S. John, cultivate the heavenly principle of love to one another. This is most... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 596 pages
...ourselves too high • For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 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. 4:54:. lls. M. MONTGOMERY. " The Lord is my Shepherd." 1 THE Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I know... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The irivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ;' Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." This view of Christian communion suggests the wisdom and the desirableness of those ordinances and... | |
 | Louisa Davids - Hymns, English - 1853 - 132 pages
...gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, near to God. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present comforts, joy, and ease, As Thou shalt... | |
 | Chandler Robbins - Congregational churches - 1854 - 582 pages
...us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. 4 If, on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow...of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 5 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see ; Some softening gleams... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1854 - 152 pages
...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...of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, —... | |
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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. 
