English Hymns: Their Authors and HistoryFunk & Wagnalls, 1886 - 675 pages |
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... sing on high , Where life hath risen from the dead ! But now I tread your voiceless shore , O monks of Antioch , and lo ! I hear the ceaseless song no more ; No more the choir go to and fro . Nay , for the world is all too wide ! Too ...
... sing on high , Where life hath risen from the dead ! But now I tread your voiceless shore , O monks of Antioch , and lo ! I hear the ceaseless song no more ; No more the choir go to and fro . Nay , for the world is all too wide ! Too ...
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... singing the familiar words . “ Sing , dear daughter , sing , " quoth the good Melanchthon ; " you know not what great people you are now comforting . " So , too , it was Gustavus Adolphus's hymn before the battle of Leipzig ( 1631 ) ...
... singing the familiar words . “ Sing , dear daughter , sing , " quoth the good Melanchthon ; " you know not what great people you are now comforting . " So , too , it was Gustavus Adolphus's hymn before the battle of Leipzig ( 1631 ) ...
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... sing the 46th Psalm " -and they would sing it in this " characteristic version . " A MOTHER may forgetful be . -STEELE . It has been said of Miss Steele : " Her hymns are a transcript of a deeply sensitive , humane , and pious mind ...
... sing the 46th Psalm " -and they would sing it in this " characteristic version . " A MOTHER may forgetful be . -STEELE . It has been said of Miss Steele : " Her hymns are a transcript of a deeply sensitive , humane , and pious mind ...
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... sing . - Wolfe . " I can remember nothing definitely , " writes Rev. A. R. Wolfe , " about A parting hymn we sing , ' except that , in looking over the lists of topics in hymn - books with the idea of endeavoring to supply deficiencies ...
... sing . - Wolfe . " I can remember nothing definitely , " writes Rev. A. R. Wolfe , " about A parting hymn we sing , ' except that , in looking over the lists of topics in hymn - books with the idea of endeavoring to supply deficiencies ...
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... singing and prayer . No imitator has been able to produce equal effect . " Another fact does bear on the hymn . In 1795 ... sing , as in the last hymn of the service : Crown him , crown him , crown him Lord of all ! ' " " Mr. Jones adds ...
... singing and prayer . No imitator has been able to produce equal effect . " Another fact does bear on the hymn . In 1795 ... sing , as in the last hymn of the service : Crown him , crown him , crown him Lord of all ! ' " " Mr. Jones adds ...
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Page 673 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Page 215 - God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy ; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy ; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal.
Page 226 - Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me's a secret yet. Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 226 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Page 545 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.
Page 171 - Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done ;' That with the world, myself, and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Page 198 - When I tread the verge of Jordan, Bid my anxious fears subside: Death of death, and hell's destruction, Land me safe on Canaan's side ; Songs of praises I will ever give to thee.
Page 255 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Page 371 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Page 413 - Son to take our nature upon him and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; grant that we, being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit...