Christmas Hours |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
38 cents 50 cents 63 cents 75 cents Alice Angel Annie Annie's beauty blessed Books Publiſhed boughs BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR bright brow cheerful child Christ Christmas box Christmas Eve Christmas flowers church Cloth countenance cousin Mary dark dear Edith disciple eager earnest earnestly earth earthly exclaimed faith Father feel filled flowers friends gentle girl glad glory golden GOLDEN LEGEND hand happy heart heaven heavenly holy hope hour hushed Jesus joyous light List of Books live Lizzie looked merry mirror morning mother Mutia night passed peace pine knot POEMS POETICAL praise pray prayer quiet rich Rosa Saviour seek seemed silent smile snow song sorrow soul spirit Star of Bethlehem story strain strange sure sweet thee thought TICKNOR AND FIELDS tones true trust unto voice vols weary wind window wonder words wreath young youthful voices
Popular passages
Page 38 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now, safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem...
Page 114 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us; because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Page 17 - Listen to the wond'rous story, Which they chant in hymns of joy ; " Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high...
Page 38 - WHEN, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky; One star alone of all the train, Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. 2 Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem : But one alone the Saviour speaks ; It is the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 61 - O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Page 54 - WHEN before thy throne we kneel, Filled with awe and holy fear, Teach us, O our God, to feel, All thy sacred presence near. 2 Check each proud and wandering thought When on thy great name we call ; Man is nought, is less than nought ; Thou, our God, art all in all.
Page 26 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Page 27 - The answering hills of Palestine Send back the glad reply ; And greet, from all their holy heights, The dayspring from on high. 4 O'er the blue depths of Galilee There comes a holier calm, And Sharon waves, in solemn praise, Her silent groves of palm. 5 "Glory to God ! " the sounding skies Loud with their anthems ring ; — "Peace to the earth, — good-will to men, From heaven's Eternal King...
Page 17 - Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high ! 3 Peace on earth, good will from heaven, Reaching far as man is found ; Souls redeemed and sins forgiven, Loud our golden harps shall sound. 4 Christ is born, the great Anointed, Heaven and earth his praises sing; O ! receive, whom God appointed, For your Prophet, Priest, and King.
Page 27 - Hymn. 1 CALM on the listening ear of night Come heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains ! 2 Celestial choirs, from courts above, Shed sacred glories there ; And angels, with their sparkling lyres, Make music on the air. 3 The answering hills of Palestine Send back the glad reply, And greet, from all their holy heights, The day-spring from on high. 4 O'er the blue depths of Galilee There...