 | Louisa Davids - Hymns, English - 1853 - 132 pages
...thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If, on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow all we find, Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn...cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, near to God.... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The irivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ;' Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." This view of Christian communion suggests the wisdom and the desirableness of those ordinances and... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task. Would furnish all we ought to ask, — Room to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God." — KEELE. " All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE,... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1853 - 762 pages
...cannot endure hardness, as good soldiers of JESUS CHBIST. " The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves : a road To bring us, daily, nearer GOD." II. We should, like S. John, cultivate the heavenly principle of love to one another. This is most... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 600 pages
...ourselves too high • For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 4:54:. lls. M. MONTGOMERY. " The Lord is my Shepherd." 1 THE Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I know... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God." Would that the "Christian Year"1 had always so sung! That there is no natural nor necessary connection... | |
 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...God will provide for sacrifice. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be As more of heaven in each we see ; Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. As for some dear familiar strain Untired we ask, and ask again, Ever in its melodious store, binding... | |
 | Elizabeth Prentiss - 1856 - 400 pages
...-will provide for sacrifice. Old friends, old scenes will lovelier \>«, As more of heaven in each we see ; Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. "We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...man beneath the sky : The trivial rovind, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to nsk ; Koom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Only, 0 Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above ; And help us, this and every day, To live more... | |
 | John Cumming - 1855 - 258 pages
...our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For siuful man beneath the sky. The daily round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought...ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." We are to go forward in the fulfilment of every obligation we are under in reference to God as a nation.... | |
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If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 
