| 1852 - 784 pages
...Church in all succeeding times. f. 9 HYMNS FOIÎ INVALIDS. (SELECTED.) 1 THES. ir. 17. For стег with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here ie the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.... | |
| 1852 - 424 pages
...felicitously expressed in the following lines by Charles Wesley: « Here in this body pent, Absent from HeaTeo I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home." — A late number of the Westminster Jievicw, one of the "great quarterlies," speaks of the "State... | |
| James Montgomery, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 926 pages
...once ; — 'tis in the tomb, His strength he mews. 1835. AT HOME IN HEAVEN. 1 TIIESS. IT. 17. PART I. "FoR ever with the LORD !" — Amen, so let it be...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden... | |
| H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...JAMES MONTOOMERY. FOREVER WITH THE LORD. " FOREVER with the Lord ! " Amen. So let it be ! Life for the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on high ! Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to Faith's aspiring eye, Thy golden... | |
| 1853 - 318 pages
...to-day. Truly, too, shall each one of us be able to say, aspiring to be perfect even as the Father, — " Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home." And there shall appear in due time the fruits of life, — first the blade, then the ear, and after... | |
| James Montgomery - 1853 - 452 pages
...art Thou ; Save or we perish, save us now ! HYMN CCXXXIV. At Home in Heaven. — 1 Thess. iv. 17. 1 " FOR ever with the LORD ! " Amen ; so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that word, Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer... | |
| Christians - 1853 - 510 pages
...shine, And one blest song shall rend the skies " The glory, Lord, be Thine ! " 65.— s. M. 1 "Fern ever with the Lord ! " Amen, so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer... | |
| Horatius Bonar - 1853 - 402 pages
...watch, and wait, and pray. CCXLII. "So shall we ever be with the Lord." — 1 Thess. iv. 17. 1 " FOB ever with the Lord ;" Amen, so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word, — 'Tis immortality. 2 Here, in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer... | |
| W. C. Hoyt - 1853 - 240 pages
...high, Lord, bid our spirits rise and join The chorus of the sky. 145. M home in heacen. * 1. Forever with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2. Forever with the Lord ! Father, if 't is thy will, The promise of that faithful word, E'en here... | |
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