 | Christianity - 1822 - 768 pages
...Their land from Error's chain. What tho' the ipicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Tho' every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | Religion - 1824 - 884 pages
...kindness The gifts of God are strewn ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from...high, Shall we to men benighted The Lamp of Life deny? Salvation ! oh, Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learnt Messiah's... | |
 | John West - Canada, Northern - 1824 - 242 pages
...missions, in language of the same import as the call of Macedonia, — " We want to know the grand God." " Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from...high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? Salvation ! oh, salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learn'd Messiah's... | |
 | 1824 - 890 pages
...They call us to deliver Their land from Error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle. Though every prospect pleases, And...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bowe down to wood and «tone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | Asia - 1824 - 724 pages
...They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What, though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And...In vain with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | 1824 - 396 pages
...plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And...In vain with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen, ¡в their blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted,... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 498 pages
...Lectures on the Christian Keligion. Matthew Allen. 51 " What though the spic)' breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And...kindness The gifts of God are strown ; < The heathen in their blindness Bow down to wood and stone. " Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on highShall... | |
 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...plain They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And...In vain with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are shewn, The Heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...plain They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And...In vain with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are shewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. JULY 1825. Shall we whose souls are... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...ancient river, From many a palmy plain,— They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. ;. 2 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of light deny? Salvation ! O salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, 'Till each remotest nation Has learn'd... | |
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What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone... 
