Light on the HillsCharles Carroll Albertson J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904 - 243 pages |
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angels beauty beloved sleep Bernard of Cluny BERNARD'S THREE HEAVENLY blessed BLEST THE RIGHTEOUS bliss breast breath bright brow CHOIR INVISIBLE Christ crown dark dead dear dream dust dying earth Edward Rowland Sill Elizabeth Barrett Browning ends the sighing eternal eyes faith farewell flowers forever Frederick William Faber friends give unto Thy giveth his beloved glad gloom glory golden Good-night grave hand Harbor at last hath heaven Henry Bickersteth hope Horatius Bonar Isaac Watts Jesus John Boyle O'Reilly JOIN THE CHOIR know thou hast Leave life's light living unto thee Lord love truly morning night pain Paradise peace Robert Southey shore silent skies smile sorrow soul spirit stars sweet tears there's a Home thine Thou art thought THREE HEAVENLY HYMNS Thy gracious keeping Thy servant rest Thy servant sleeping unto Thy servant voice wake wakeful eyes weary weep wonder
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Page 112 - Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. no
Page 132 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. Josiah Gilbert Holland.
Page 13 - LIFE AND DEATH LIFE AND DEATH ¥¥ PROSPICE Fear death ?—to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch-Fear in a visible form, And the strong man must go
Page 156 - comes with might, To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. Arise, arise, good Christian, Let right to wrong succeed; Let penitential sorrow To heavenly gladness lead, To light that hath no evening, That knows no moon nor sun, The light so new and golden, The light that is but one.
Page 157 - happy, holy portion, Refection for the blest, True vision of true beauty, Sweet cure of all distressed ! Strive, man, to win that glory ; Toil, man, to gain that light; Send hope before to grasp it, Till hope be lost in sight.
Page 161 - The special place my dearest Lord In love prepares for me. Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through, In God's most holy sight. Frederick W. Faber.
Page 86 - By an unseen living Hand, and conscious chords Quiver with joy in this great jubilee. The dying hear it; and, as sounds of earth Grow dull and distant, wake their passing souls To mingle in this heavenly harmony.
Page 15 - Tor the journey is done, and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all.
Page 137 - BEYOND THE SMILING AND THE WEEPING Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Beyond the
Page 226 - So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And