| Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pages
...following was one of his favourites : ' Abide with me ! Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness thickens : Lord ! with me abide. When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh ! abide with me. ' Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| 1842 - 612 pages
...Berry Head, in September, 1847.] ABIDE with me ! Fast falls the Eventide ; The darkness thickens ; Lord, with me abide ! When other helpers fail, and...comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me ! Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away: Change... | |
| 1865 - 1194 pages
...he united in singing, "Abide with me;" the last verso of which proved singularly appropriate : — " Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes ; Shine through the gloom, and point ma to the skies : Heuvcn's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee : In life or death, O God,... | |
| 1876 - 352 pages
...upon My vesture did they cast lots."— Matthew xxvii. 35. -SDlre SSlalk ta "Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me...helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh abide with me." N no page of history is there recorded so thrilling a narrative as that by the evangelist... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...hollow (concavus) rocks shine with the opposite fires. EXERCISE IX. (Lyte). Abide with me : fast falls the even-tide : The darkness deepens ; Lord, with...helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day : Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...— And such in a storm is Appledore. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE. ABIDE WITH ME. ABIDE with me ! fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me...helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me! Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim; its glories... | |
| 1880 - 304 pages
...better will they be appreciated ; — ABIDE with me, fast falls the eventide, The darkness thickens ; Lord, with me abide, When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day, Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| 1869 - 862 pages
...— may properly close this long, but I hope not uninteresting series : — Abide with me; Cist falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me...other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helplesu, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its... | |
| 1744 - 726 pages
...one of his favourites. • Abide with me I Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness thickens : Lord 1 with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of tliu helpless, O abide with me I Swift to Its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim,... | |
| Covenant hymns, Hymnals - 1849 - 316 pages
...ABIDE with me ! fast falls the eventide, The darkness thickens, Lord, with me ahide ; When earthly helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me ! 2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away ;... | |
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