 | George B. Scott - 1864 - 286 pages
...presence of her blessed Saviour and her God, to serve Him day and night in His glorious temple ! " Oh, happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners, A mansion with the blest." But let us not undraw the curtain farther than to disclose one or two of the more minute circumstances... | |
 | Book - 1865 - 374 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. 2 O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ! 3 And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1865 - 384 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow short-lived care, The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns - 1866 - 374 pages
...portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest : For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | George Thomas Rider - Christian poetry, English - 1865 - 316 pages
...portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; .The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution Short toil, eternal rest : For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution, Short toil, eternal rest ! For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ; — * The above is rather a translation of a translation, taken from one of Paul Gerhardt's most... | |
 | James Turle - Hymns, English - 1865 - 534 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ! For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the bless'd ! There grief is turn'd to pleasure ; Such pleasure, as below No human voice can utter, No... | |
 | Abner William BROWN - Bible - 1865 - 306 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is tliere. 0 happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners, A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shalt wear the crown, Of full and everlasting, And passionless,... | |
 | James Robert Turnock - 1865 - 324 pages
...throne, inasmuch as He shares our nature but not the angels'. " That we should look, poor wanderers, To have our home on high! That worms should seek for dwellings Beyond the starry sky !" Yet this is promised to the saints: " "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye... | |
 | George B. Scott - 1865 - 266 pages
...— Brief sorrow, short-lived care— The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. 0 happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. ELEVENTH DAY. |IS going away produced sorrow in the hearts of His disciples. He knew that for awhile... | |
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BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. 
