 | Henry Sloane Coffin, Ambrose White Vernon - Bible - 1916 - 646 pages
...2 My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known; He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they break. 3 Within...powers I boast, Is in the boundless prospect lost. 5 0 may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er I rove, where'er I rest! Nor let my weaker passions... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin, Ambrose White Vernon - Bible - 1916 - 618 pages
...2 My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known; He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they break. 3 Within...powers I boast, Is in the boundless prospect lost. 5 0 may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er I rove, where'er I rest! Nor let my weaker passions... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Bible - 1917 - 734 pages
...boundless prospect lost. 3 Within Thy circling power I stand; 5 O may these thoughts possess my breast, On every side I find Thy hand: Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. SILVER STREET SM 3=^-^4*^ Where'er I rove, where'er I rest : Nor let my weaker passions dare Consent... | |
 | 1918 - 600 pages
...God's spiritual law and testimony. Psalm 139 : 5 emphasizes the same thought. Watts versifies it thus : "Within thy circling power I stand; On every side...at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God." These spiritual seers in Israel teach Christians the sacramental value and significance of nature,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Hymns, English - 1911 - 740 pages
...boundless prospect lost. 3 Within Thy circling power I stand; 5 O may these thoughts possess my breast, On every side I find Thy hand: Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. SILVER STREET SM Where'er I rove, where'er I rest: Nor let my weaker passions dare Consent to sin,... | |
 | Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - Religion - 1991 - 562 pages
...immanent, the God who is not only "up there" but "down here" as well. As the hymn writer confesses, Within thy circling power I stand, On every side I...asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. (Watts) But how is God related to our space; how is she "down here"? "Do the heavens and the earth,"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...stand ; On ev'ry side I h'nd thy hand : Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, J am surrounded still with God. Amazing knowledge, vast and great ! What large extent! what lofty height ! My soul, with all the pow'ra I boast, Is in the boundless prospect lost. 0 may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er... | |
 | Religion - 2002 - 264 pages
...thy right hand shall hold me."— Ps. 139:7-10. The poet had this thought when he wrote these words: Within Thy circling power I stand; On every side I...asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. Sometimes Christ stands in the midst through adversity. Here is a man whose way God has prospered.... | |
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Thine eye commands with piercing view My rising and my resting hours, My heart and flesh, with all their powers. 2 My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known ; He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they... 
