Songs of Heaven from Many HeartsKalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Company, 1918 - 65 pages |
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To All who have known the burden and darkness of a great sorrow and who would share the comfort and strength to be found in the faith and vision and sympathy of other souls and to all that dear company , whose faces we see no more , but ...
To All who have known the burden and darkness of a great sorrow and who would share the comfort and strength to be found in the faith and vision and sympathy of other souls and to all that dear company , whose faces we see no more , but ...
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... sorrow like this one which well nigh crushes you , permit me to say this in loving sympathy with you in your bereavement : Do not think of the loved one as dead . There is no death : " Christ hath abolished death and brought life and ...
... sorrow like this one which well nigh crushes you , permit me to say this in loving sympathy with you in your bereavement : Do not think of the loved one as dead . There is no death : " Christ hath abolished death and brought life and ...
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... sorrow blind your eyes to the great truth that this precious soul of your devotion is not imprisoned in the tomb , to slumber through the long ages of the future , but is " alive with God , forevermore . " Our loved ones are not far ...
... sorrow blind your eyes to the great truth that this precious soul of your devotion is not imprisoned in the tomb , to slumber through the long ages of the future , but is " alive with God , forevermore . " Our loved ones are not far ...
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... sorrows and tears and losses of this life shall be forgotten in the blessed companionships and compensations of the heavenly life . May the Spirit of all grace and power , which in the Garden and on the Cross did sustain Jesus of ...
... sorrows and tears and losses of this life shall be forgotten in the blessed companionships and compensations of the heavenly life . May the Spirit of all grace and power , which in the Garden and on the Cross did sustain Jesus of ...
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... and ashes all that is . I hold it true whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most , ' Tis better to have loved and lost , Than never to have loved at all . -Alfred Tennyson . My Heaven AN I forget that yesterday , supernal , 12.
... and ashes all that is . I hold it true whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most , ' Tis better to have loved and lost , Than never to have loved at all . -Alfred Tennyson . My Heaven AN I forget that yesterday , supernal , 12.
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abide alchemy amid angels Angels of Grief beautiful better farther blessed bliss body breath bright C. C. Pierce Choir Invisible Christ Cicero dark dead death deep divine dream earth earthly eternal eyes fade fair city faith Father fear feel flowers forever forevermore friends gates gentle glad gleam glorified glorious glory God's gone Goodby grave grief hath heart heaven heavenly hope human immortal infinite Jesus Jesus of Nazareth Kindly Light land leave life's light live lonely look Lord morning mortal mourn never night noble o'er old churchyard pain pass peace pray Prayer precious rest shadows shine sight silent Sings sleep smile sometime Somewhere song sorrow soul spirit stars sublime sweet sweetest tears tempest tender thee thine things Thomas Moore thou thought throb throne tomb tread unseen unto Victor Hugo wander Washington Irving weary weep
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Page 60 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 38 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 59 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Page 16 - There is no death! The Stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine forevermore. There is no death!
Page 25 - No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights ; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection — when the sudden anguish and the convulsive agony over the present ruins of all that we most loved is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of its loveliness — who would root out such a sorrow from the heart...
Page 53 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat. The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe...
Page 24 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Page 18 - LEAD, kindly Light ! amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on ! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on ; Keep Thou my feet ; I do not ask to see The distant scene ; one step enough for me.
Page 53 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.
Page 58 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...