 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no tinie to sport away the hours, 'All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have...toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." Then let our daily prayer be, "0 send out Thy light and Thy truth: let them lead me ; let them bring... | |
 | 1861 - 980 pages
...sport away the hours ; All must be earnest in a woild like ours. Not many lives, but only one hare we, One, only one ; How sacred should that one life...toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. JS. H. THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. IN fOOB CHAPTBHg. CHAPTER I. — PALESTINB. POSITION AND APPEARANCE OF... | |
 | 1872 - 516 pages
...dropping tear. We liave no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like our». Not many lives, but only one, have we ; One, only...sacred should that one life ever be. That narrow span I Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. FOREIGN LETTERS... | |
 | 1885 - 302 pages
...must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, bnt only one have we — Frail, fleeting man ! How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span! Day after day rilled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Our being is no shadow of... | |
 | Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 pages
...to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have One, only one. How sacred should that one life ever...toil ; Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Our being is no shadow of thin air, No vacant dream, No fable of the things that never were, But only... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pages
...falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours ; All must be earnest in a world like ours, " Not many lives, but only one...toil ; Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." DEATH WITHOUT FEAR. The following were the dying words of Mr. William M'Leau, of Edinburgh, a man of... | |
 | 1862
...— to labour without ceasing, believing that in due time they shall reap, if they feint not ! " Jfot many lives, but only one, have we ; One, only one....toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." EDITH'S TEAR. FOR THE YOUNG. TEKEE it lay, one large, clear drop, on the soft, rounded cheek. The face... | |
 | 1872 - 722 pages
...that, whatever may be the number of our days, they shall be filled with true and God-given, work, — " Day after day filled up with blessed toil ; Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil;" live so that all our energies shall be bent to that great object which God has set before us. Let each... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...falling of a leaf— i dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. • Not many lives, but only one have we — Frail, fleeting man ; How sacred should that one life ever beThat narrow span : Day after clay... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1854 - 348 pages
...mast he earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, hut only one have we — Frail, fleeting man ! How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span ! Day after day fill'd up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Our being is no shadow of... | |
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Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief, And sin is here. Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,— One, only one... 
