Hymns for Christian Devotion: Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination

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Abel Tompkins, 1854 - Hymns, English - 629 pages

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Page 458 - name—I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. 3 Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song: Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe, partake; Let rocks their silence break,— The sound prolong.
Page 113 - spread the truth from pole to pole. 3 What though, in solemn silence, all Move round this dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amidst their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they .all rejoice, '• And utter forth a glorious voice; Forever singing, as they shine,—
Page 147 - of Christ. 1 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.
Page 141 - of Christ. 1 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 plain* Repeat the sounding
Page 251 - 4 If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way. 5 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Page 268 - 2 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all! 3 There shall I bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my. peaceful breast.
Page 262 - we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 3 Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate ? Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And thine to us so great ? 4 Come, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
Page 151 - 4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns; The joyful prisoner bursts his chains ; The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest. 5 Let every creature rise and bring Peculiar honors to our King; Angels descend with songs again And earth repeat the loud Amen.
Page 241 - land: I am weak, but thou art mighty ; Hold me with thy powerful hand : Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more. 2 Open now the crystal fountain, Whence the healing streams do flow; Let the fiery, cloudy pillar Lead me all my journey through:
Page 373 - 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so

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