A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources[s.n.] : Printed for the compilers, 1886 - 230 pages |
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Page 83
... smile on us in the bosom of death , as if thou wert alive . We see thy glory still , like sunset on a mountain's head . Hindu . ― He who in the morning has seen the right way , may in the evening die without regret . — Confucius . It is ...
... smile on us in the bosom of death , as if thou wert alive . We see thy glory still , like sunset on a mountain's head . Hindu . ― He who in the morning has seen the right way , may in the evening die without regret . — Confucius . It is ...
Page 91
... smiles , and whisper into our hearts a belief that they are present . The heart bids us believe it possible ; and oh ! what- ever good thing the heart bids us believe , let us do our best to believe it ; for God has put it there , and ...
... smiles , and whisper into our hearts a belief that they are present . The heart bids us believe it possible ; and oh ! what- ever good thing the heart bids us believe , let us do our best to believe it ; for God has put it there , and ...
Page 102
... which grieve . Tears mingle more per- fectly than smiles , and the chain of family love on earth becomes much stronger when some of its links are in heaven . We need to learn that the purpose of the tree 102 SELECTED THOUGHTS .
... which grieve . Tears mingle more per- fectly than smiles , and the chain of family love on earth becomes much stronger when some of its links are in heaven . We need to learn that the purpose of the tree 102 SELECTED THOUGHTS .
Page 108
... smile that comes like a starry light To calm the terror and grief we feel ; He comes to help and to save and to heal : Then let us , baring our hearts and kneeling , Sing , while we wait this Angel's sword , — " Blessed is he that ...
... smile that comes like a starry light To calm the terror and grief we feel ; He comes to help and to save and to heal : Then let us , baring our hearts and kneeling , Sing , while we wait this Angel's sword , — " Blessed is he that ...
Page 111
... smile quenched forever , and stilled the sprightly shout . O frail , frail tree of Life , that upon the greensward strows Its fair young buds unopened , with every wind that blows ! So come from every region , so enter , side by side ...
... smile quenched forever , and stilled the sprightly shout . O frail , frail tree of Life , that upon the greensward strows Its fair young buds unopened , with every wind that blows ! So come from every region , so enter , side by side ...
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A. C. Swinburne Absalom Alfred Tennyson Alice Cary angels Anonymous beautiful behold Blessed breath bright bright promise child cloud cometh dark days go dead dear death Dora Greenwell doth dust earth eternal eyes faint fair faith Father fear feel feet flowers forever friends Gerald Massey give giveth glory God's gone grave grief hand hands to God hath heart heaven holy hope Horatius Bonar Hymns immortal J. G. Whittier land Leopold Schefer life's light live look Lord mercy morning mortal mourn never night o'er pain passed patient peace Poems prayer Quiet Hours R. H. CHARLES rest righteousness river Schaff & Gilman shadow shine silent sing sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stars strength Sursum Corda sweet tears tender thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought troubled trust truth voice wait weary weep wisdom
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Page 37 - LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 146 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 63 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 72 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 32 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 58 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 66 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 40 - I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death ; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 130 - 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 20 - Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.