The Pilgrim's Harp: A Choice Collection of Sacred Music Adapted to All Occasions of Social and Family Worship and a Convenient Handbook for Church ChoirsAsa Hull, 1869 - 224 pages |
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angels Beautiful vale behold bids Blessed Jesus blest bliss blood breast breath bright cheer CHORUS Christ Concluded from opposite cross crown dark dear death dwell earth eternal ev'ry eyes fair faith FANNY CROSBY Father fear flow found Glory fountain friends give glad glorious glory grace happy Happy day happy land harps hast hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy hope HULL Je-sus Lamb Lamb of God land Legato life's light live Lord love at home mansion meet mercy Moderato Music ne'er never night o'er pain peace Pilgrim pleasures pow'r praise pray pray'r rapture Redeemer reign righteous rise river Rock saints salvation Saviour SECOND HYMN seek shine shore sing sinners sins skies song songs of praise soon sorrow soul spirit stand Star of Bethlehem storms stream sweet tears thee thine Thou art thro throne vale of rest voice weary word
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Page 203 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers ; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 191 - Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire, ascending, seeks the sun ; Both speed them to their source : So a soul, that's born of God, Pants to view His glorious face, Upward tends to His abode, To rest in His embrace.
Page 186 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want, More than all in thee I find ! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind ; Just and holy is thy name, I am all unrighteousness ; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 185 - As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream.
Page 209 - God ruleth on high, almighty to save ; And still he is nigh — his presence we have : The great congregation his triumph shall sing, Ascribing salvation to Jesus, our King. 3 Salvation to God, who sits on the throne...
Page 193 - I'm come; And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood.
Page 140 - So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 161 - Redeemer's throne, Where only Christ is heard to speak. Where Jesus reigns alone ; 3 A humble, lowly, contrite heart, Believing, true, and clean, Which neither life nor death can part From Him that dwells within ; 4 A heart in every thought renewed, And full of love divine, Perfect and right and pure and good, A copy, Lord, of Thine...
Page 154 - Dear, dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more.
Page 177 - Twere vain the ocean depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole. 2 The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.