Lasting happiness, poemsW. Macintosh, 1866 - 104 sider |
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Acrostic ALDERSGATE STREET arrayed beauteous beauty beneath billows bless blest bloom bright sun CAMBRIAN cheer Christian crown dear death decay delight dwell E'en e'er earth earthly earthly joy emblem eternal everlasting evermore fade fair Fair Isle faith Faith's anchor fame fear Flora's floweret flowers foes friends gay bowers glorious glory God's grace grief HAIL hand Transplanted hast hath heart heavenly holy Hope Hope's bright hour humble humility immortal Isle Jesus Christ King of Terrors land life's live lone man's mortal mourn Mungo Park muse ne'er o'er once path Patriot's Song peace praise prayer pride RED VALERIAN Redeemer rivers of joy roam Satan's shade SHIPWRECKED MARINER shore sin's smile snowy white sons of Fortune sorrow soul soul's strife Sundower sweet tears are wiped thine thoughts Time's true Twas vale victory viewing thee ween weep whisper Wisdom worldly yearn Youth's
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Side 24 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Side v - Nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, strengthens our interests in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, knits us by new ties with universal beings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold on the future life
Side 48 - Who does not recollect the exultation of Vaillant over a flower in the torrid wastes of Africa? The affecting mention of the influence of a flower upon the mind, by Mungo Park, in a time of suffering and despondency, in the heart of the same savage country, is familiar to every one.
Side 92 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Side 41 - ... for they first awaken in the mind a sense of the beautiful and the good. Light is beautiful and good : but on its undivided beauty, and on the glorious intensity of its full strength, man cannot gaze ; he can comprehend it best...
Side 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots...
Side 39 - God so loved the world, that he gave his only hegotten Son, that whosoever helieveth in him, should not perish, hut have everlasting life.
Side 34 - I believe more so than most churches of the same dimensions. Our number of members is about two hundred and ninety-five, between forty and fifty of whom have joined us since I saw you, and most of them I have the happiness of considering as my children in the faith.
Side 41 - Are not flowers the stars of earth, and are not stars the flowers of Heaven ? Flowers are the teachers of gentle thoughts — promoters of kindly emotion. One cannot look closely at the structure of a flower without loving it.