...he laid his hand calmly upon the wondering child, and looking upward, said in spirit and in truth, " The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only Theo!" [From Tai1's Edinburgh Magazine.] THE BRIDE. The bridal veil bangs o'er her brow, The ring of...

...sweet their memory still f But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. 1 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 6 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship...

...How sweet thfir incnriy still! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol he ; Help me to tear it from thy throne; And worship...

...down his house upon the head of his wife and children; yet, thought I, I must do it, I must do it." "The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. Time and again in the...

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...the "peacefull Hours" have actively and deliberately left misery for him. He continues: Return, oh Holy Dove, Return, Sweet Messenger of Rest, I hate...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my Breast. He is suggesting here that God is no longer with him and he desires His return. Instead of seeing God...

...in one of his frequent bouts of depression, 'Where is the blessedness I knew?' and pleads: Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my breast. A further reason for the sense of desertion in suffering is no doubt the failure of expectations that...

...God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! 2 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 3 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship...

...190); and accumulations* of superlatives or of such excluding expressions as 'only' or 'the only.' Ex: The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only thee. W. Cowper, Onley Hymns, 1 The ultimate expedient is to denounce the inadequacy of language. Ex: Through...

...stone, therefore we can never be guilty of idolatry. Cowper was right in teaching the church to sing, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Mammon is the god of many in our modern capitalist world, and many have said to mammon: "Deliver me,...