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... Sabbath The Maiinis of England A Pa * Flower , a Streum . Then & Nude The Mallannik Sabbath The Dasizes ing Angal . The Sabbath Ball The Time - piece Creation and Redemption 80 The ne Light The Reprenly Canaan . The Daist The ...
... Sabbath The Maiinis of England A Pa * Flower , a Streum . Then & Nude The Mallannik Sabbath The Dasizes ing Angal . The Sabbath Ball The Time - piece Creation and Redemption 80 The ne Light The Reprenly Canaan . The Daist The ...
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... Sabbath Eve Home Where is God ? 15 Funeral Speak Gently . 17 The Happiest Time The Sabbath The Use of Flowers .. The Sunday School The Sabbath Morn Sabbath Evening A Dirge A Voyage Round the World Who is my Neighbour ? England's Oak The ...
... Sabbath Eve Home Where is God ? 15 Funeral Speak Gently . 17 The Happiest Time The Sabbath The Use of Flowers .. The Sunday School The Sabbath Morn Sabbath Evening A Dirge A Voyage Round the World Who is my Neighbour ? England's Oak The ...
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... RIGHTEOUSNESS , ' Tis Immanuel's streaming blood , Bought their pardon , seal'd their peace , Made them kings and priests to God ! C Therefore free from every pain , Now in radiant realms 13 The Church Triumphant Sabbath.
... RIGHTEOUSNESS , ' Tis Immanuel's streaming blood , Bought their pardon , seal'd their peace , Made them kings and priests to God ! C Therefore free from every pain , Now in radiant realms 13 The Church Triumphant Sabbath.
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... drunk them all , Then wherefore , wherefore were they made , All dyed with rainbow light ? All fashioned with supremest grace , Upspringing day and night ? Springing in valleys green and low , And on the 18 The Sabbath The Use of Flowers.
... drunk them all , Then wherefore , wherefore were they made , All dyed with rainbow light ? All fashioned with supremest grace , Upspringing day and night ? Springing in valleys green and low , And on the 18 The Sabbath The Use of Flowers.
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... Sabbaths . - Be your gain A Sabbath without end , mid yon celestial plain . MRS . SIGOURNEY . THE SABBATH MORN . WELCOME once more , delightful morn ! I hail each bright returning ray ; I love the peaceful rising dawn , That ushers in ...
... Sabbaths . - Be your gain A Sabbath without end , mid yon celestial plain . MRS . SIGOURNEY . THE SABBATH MORN . WELCOME once more , delightful morn ! I hail each bright returning ray ; I love the peaceful rising dawn , That ushers in ...
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angel Art Thou ask'd beauty behold beneath beneath the sky BERNARD BARTON bless blest bliss bloom breath breeze bright celestial child dead dear death deep delight DESCRIPTIVE POETRY dust to dust dwell Earth to earth earthly eternal fair Father Father's Name flood flowers glorious glory grace grave green happiest happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy homes of England hour humble Israel Jesus Learn to labour life's light live Lord loves me best MILLENNIAL SABBATH mountains moving heart night night into morning o'er pass'd path peace perfect bliss praise pray prayer reign rest rise round sabbath bell sacred Saviour's shine shore sleep smile song soul Speak gently spirit star by star storm stormy tempests blow strange hills sweet tear tell thee thine Thou art thought throne Thy neighbour toil tomb trees Twas voice
Popular passages
Page 73 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 33 - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 34 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 37 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 43 - They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth. But love is indestructible— Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.