'Who giveth songs in the night:' words of comfort for the sorrowing children of God. By the author of 'Christian manliness'.Religious Tract Society, 1867 - 170 páginas |
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... Toil . Moses - The Old Testament dispensation - The prophets -Their songs in the night the songs of the church now -The night of our Lord's conflict - Songs in the night PAGE 1 11 39 of persecution - Paul and Silas - John in Patmos.
... Toil . Moses - The Old Testament dispensation - The prophets -Their songs in the night the songs of the church now -The night of our Lord's conflict - Songs in the night PAGE 1 11 39 of persecution - Paul and Silas - John in Patmos.
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... prophets , whose loftiest themes almost always assume the form of poetry ; to our Lord himself , whose joy once broke forth in poetic form when he said , " I thank thee , O Father , Lord of heaven and earth , because thou hast hid these ...
... prophets , whose loftiest themes almost always assume the form of poetry ; to our Lord himself , whose joy once broke forth in poetic form when he said , " I thank thee , O Father , Lord of heaven and earth , because thou hast hid these ...
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... prophets , " he says . " It is the only other art , which , like theology , can calm the agitations of the soul , and put the devil to flight . " His devout songs , many of them truly songs in the night , breathe the loftiest spirit of ...
... prophets , " he says . " It is the only other art , which , like theology , can calm the agitations of the soul , and put the devil to flight . " His devout songs , many of them truly songs in the night , breathe the loftiest spirit of ...
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... prophet of old told the Jews , that they were commanded not to pray for him , for God had rejected him . He thought he had committed the unpardonable sin , and a good , but not very wise man , " an ancient Christian " Bunyan calls him ...
... prophet of old told the Jews , that they were commanded not to pray for him , for God had rejected him . He thought he had committed the unpardonable sin , and a good , but not very wise man , " an ancient Christian " Bunyan calls him ...
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... in the narrative of the prophet Jonah . There was a wilfulness and yet a weakness about his sin which makes it conspicuous ; a deter- mination to disobey and to justify himself in his dis- D obedience , which makes it , so to speak ,
... in the narrative of the prophet Jonah . There was a wilfulness and yet a weakness about his sin which makes it conspicuous ; a deter- mination to disobey and to justify himself in his dis- D obedience , which makes it , so to speak ,
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Página 117 - No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone: But I beneath...
Página 60 - 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.
Página 105 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 49 - Who can understand his errors ? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins ; let them not have dominion over me : then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Página 146 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Página 62 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 131 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Página 164 - Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate; and lo! as they entered, they were transfigured; and they had raiment put on that shone like gold. There...
Página 115 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Página 169 - Not there, not there, my child! " Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, — Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; Far beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb — It is there, it is there, my child !