| 1835 - 700 pagina’s
...good. Take, for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. « " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be —...pitch my moving tent A day's march -nearer home.' Of this form of illustrating the simplest themes by language and images, at once homely and poetical,... | |
| 1867 - 810 pagina’s
...adapted in a style excruciating to a sensitive author, is most popular — " For ever with the Lonl, Amen, so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home," &c. And another — " There is a better world, they say, Oh, so bright ! Where sin and woe are done... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...sink those stars in empty night, But hide themselves in heaven's own light. FOR EVES WITH THE LORD. " FOR ever with the Lord! " Amen! so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word : 'Tis immortality! My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's aspiring eye, Thy golden... | |
| James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pagina’s
...from the lowest hell, Prepares a heavenly house for me, AT HOME IN HEAVEN 1 THESS. iv. 17. PART I. " FOR ever with the Lord ! " — Amen ; so let it be...immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden... | |
| 1835 - 572 pagina’s
...good. Take, for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. ' " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life from the dead is in that word, "Tig immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent... | |
| Charles Edward Kennaway - 1835 - 470 pagina’s
...that sweet hymn of Montgomery's, " For ever with the Lord :" of which I will quote a verse or two. " Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my tent A day's march nearer home. My Fathers house on high, Home of my soul how near, At times to faith's... | |
| 1836 - 368 pagina’s
...MOSES I3uuw.\i:. SACRED POETRY. A HOME IN HEAVEN*. " FOR ever with the Lord." Amen, so let it be ; Lite from the dead is in that word, " 'Tis immortality." Here in the body spent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A diiy's march nearer home. My father's... | |
| Home missionary society - 1838 - 228 pagina’s
...to possess. AMICUS, HM s. M. POETRY. AT HOME IN HEAVEN. For ever with the Lord, Amen, so let it he : Life from the dead is in that word, Tis immortality. Here in the hody pent, Ahsent frum him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my roving tent A day's march nearer home. My... | |
| Hymns - 1840 - 464 pagina’s
...And one bless'd song shall rend the skies " The glory, Lord, be Thine !" C. — 6, Q, 8, 6. 1 " FOB ever with the Lord !" Amen, so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer... | |
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