 | S. J. Fitzgerald - Temperance - 1884 - 218 pages
...no work was found for either Wilfred or Harry Hedley. CHAPTEE VIII. THE BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE CLOUD. " I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise...Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies." — JC WHITTIER. iOON came the trial of Wilfred Hedley's faith. Often there was a suggestion from the... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - Devotional calendars - 1884 - 402 pages
...able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ fesus our Lord. — ROM. viii. 38, 39. I KNOW not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise,...Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. J. G, WHITTIER. TI>E of good faith, my dear Friends, look not out at any thing ; fear none of those... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1884 - 332 pages
...voices gone, For vanished smiles I long, But God hath led my dear ones on, And he can do no wrong. 2 I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death Ilis mercy underlies. And if my heart and flesh are wcuk To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed... | |
 | Michigan - 1884 - 590 pages
...tenderly ministered for so many years to his helplessness, is well expressed in the following stanza: " I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long; But Ood hath led my clear one on, And He can do no wrong." The wife of the venerable EB Dewey, who resides... | |
 | Eschatology - 1890 - 400 pages
...blessings known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right. I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...given, Clouds, winds, and stars their part fulfil, Thine is to trust in Heaven.' MRS. HEMANS. in 3i. I LONG for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised seed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. JG WHITTIER. -Hie AUGUST. *-«ILift up tout Upearta,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1885 - 164 pages
...Month) 23. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. JOB i. 21. I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...hath led my dear ones on, And he can do no wrong. THE ETEENAL GOODNESS. February (Second Month) 24. For the poor shall never cease out of the land :... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1885 - 352 pages
...ending of the soul's eclipse, — Its transit to the sky. 000 WHITHER. Ooft Love and Care. 1 I LONQ for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long,...hath led my dear ones on, And he can do no wrong. 2 I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy... | |
 | Henry Paterson Cameron - Bible - 1885 - 204 pages
...action, we could well imagine him applying to himself the following lines of the sacred bard — " I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise,...Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His... | |
 | Charles Lanman - Arctic regions - 1885 - 364 pages
...the poet Whittier, many of the mourners present must have felt their special force, when he says : " I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death Hii mercy underlies." The remains of the hero lie in the beautiful cemetery of the Naval Academy, overlooking... | |
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I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 
