Hymns: Their History and Development in the Greek and Latin Churches, Germany and Great Britain

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A. and C. Black, 1892 - 216 páginas

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Página 174 - JOY to the world ; -the Lord is come : Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns: Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Página 202 - Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Página 103 - Who from our mother's arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours to-day. O may this bounteous GOD Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessed peace to cheer us ; And keep us in His grace, And guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills In this world and the next.
Página 7 - And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
Página 196 - Tis thy Saviour, hear His word ; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee : " Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou Me?
Página 195 - Where Jesus answers prayer ; There humbly fall before his feet, For none can perish there. 2 Thy promise is my only plea — With this I venture nigh ; Thou callest burdened souls to thee, And such, O Lord, am I.
Página 199 - WE sing the praise of him who died, Of him who died upon the cross : The sinner's hope let men deride : For this we count the world but loss. 2 Inscribed upon the cross we see In shining letters, God is love : He bears our sins upon the tree : He brings us mercy from above. 3 The cross — it takes our guilt away; It holds the fainting spirit up ; It cheers with hope the gloomy day, And sweetens every bitter cup.
Página 175 - The heathen lands that lie beneath The shades of overspreading death, Revive at his first dawning light, And deserts blossom at the sight.
Página 189 - Jesus ! confirm my heart's desire To work, and speak, and think for Thee ; Still let me guard the holy fire ; And still stir up Thy gift in me...
Página 68 - Then let the beasts of earth, with varying strain, Join in creation's hymn, and cry again, Alleluia ! Here let the mountains thunder forth sonorous, Alleluia!

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