 | Children's literature - 1856
...burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, Wheu none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watch-word at the gate of death... | |
 | Evangelicalism - 1842
...sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the4 simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ;...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air; His watchword at the gates of death... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1843 - 671 pages
...hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near....the gates of death; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice,... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1843 - 621 pages
...hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near....Christian's native air, The watch-word at the gates of death j He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ;... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Bible - 1843 - 564 pages
...hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near....strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice While angels in their songs rejoice, And say — " Behold, he prays." 5 Prayer... | |
 | Henry Date - Hymns, English - 1902 - 224 pages
...hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near....strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways; While angels in their songs rejoice And cry, "Behold,... | |
 | Sir John Stainer - Hymns, English - 1902 - 863 pages
...burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. m 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. mp 4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice Returning from his ways, m While angels in their songs rejoice.... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Ethics - 1902 - 464 pages
...declaim against it, pray when reduced to straits; and that experience testifies to its benefits. " Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high." Objections to prayer are sometimes made on the ground that it is a request that God would suspend his... | |
 | Mormon Church - 1912
...soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. O thou by whom we come to God — The Life, the Truth, the Way! The path of prayer, thyself hast trod;... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - Religious poetry - 1903 - 369 pages
...burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant...sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. . . . Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs... | |
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Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; — Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 
