 | Ann Yosy - Christian life - 1822 - 198 pages
...experience, the truth of those beautiful lines of your amiable poet: ' The calm retreat, the silenfrshade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.' " Here my friend paused, and we seated ourselves for a moment on the verdant bank that lined our path.... | |
 | James Sargant Storer - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1822 - 110 pages
...most devout effusions of piety are happily combined : Tlie calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who worship Thee. There, if thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what joy, and peace,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1865 - 1194 pages
...silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And arc by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. "There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O, with what peace, and joy, xnd IOTP, She communes with her Go<l ! " There, like the nighting.de,... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Bible - 1823 - 376 pages
...I flee. From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where sin is waging still Its most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer...bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy presence cheer the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...from the turmoil and cares of the past six busy days of care or toil, and disposes it to holy musings. "The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee." Though we are in a spot of perfect seclusion, there are human habitations in sight : from the chimneys... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 418 pages
...I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where sin is waging still Its most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer...bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy presence cheer the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love. She communes... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 748 pages
...most successful war. :•-. :", ::.. • , : •. i 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made,...those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the sou!, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God !... | |
 | Christian life - 1867 - 348 pages
...own words, written probably in some happier moment, he aptly describes his songs in the night — " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that follow Thee. There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace,... | |
 | Asahel Nettleton - Hymns, English - 1824 - 498 pages
...With pray'rand praise agree: And seem by thy sweet bounty made, i* For those who follow thee. 3 Then if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace and joy and love, She there communes with God ! 4 There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness... | |
 | John Newton - Sermons, English - 1824 - 638 pages
...follow thec. * Luke, viii. 46. t Psalm cxix. 103. f Solomon's Scn-g, i. 3 § Isa. *xxv. 604 COMFORT. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy aiul love, She communes with her God ! 4 There,like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays ;... | |
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There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! # Isaiah xxxv. 7. 4 There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts... 
