 | Herbert Barclay Turner, William Foster Biddle, Kerr Boyce Tupper - Baptists - 1907 - 672 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 5 О could we make our doubts remove, Stand dressed in living... | |
 | 1856 - 712 pages
...flood, Should fright us from the shore." Catching the strain, he replied, with great aptitude, — " Yet timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow...shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away." He asked her to sing it for him. She attempted, but the remembrance of her late bereavement, and the... | |
 | Frederick Storrs Turner - Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) - 1907 - 160 pages
...light of the new heavens and new earth; hut also as matter of fact many have said sorrowfully — 0 could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts...see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes ! This intermittent faith is not an absolute distinction from the other certainties. While as yet the... | |
 | Thomas Banks Strong, William Sanday - Hymns, English - 1908 - 958 pages
...flood Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. Oh, could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love... | |
 | Harrow School - Hymns - 1908 - 360 pages
...Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts...see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes ; Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Calendars - 1908 - 460 pages
...dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea,...linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. O ! could we make our doubts remove Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love... | |
 | English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and Other States - Hymns, English - 1909 - 502 pages
...fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start...doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And view the Canaan that we love, With unbeclouded eyes 1 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1909 - 456 pages
...flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan, that we love,... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 478 pages
...This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green; But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
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Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood Should fright us from the shore, 1 78. 
