| 1838 - 1014 pages
...often repeated the following lines:— " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows ire, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." She peacefully fell asleep In Jesus. TB Dec. 25th.— At St. //•... in the Huntingdon... | |
| 1822 - 494 pages
...it, for Jesus died for all." " Jesns can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are ; Whilst on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." " O ! sing ! sing ! Jesus can make a dying bed, Sic." We commenced singing. She sang... | |
| 1823 - 622 pages
...appeared to brighten, and in her departing moments she experienced the sentiment of the poet : — . " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows...his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." Her happy spirit attended by a convoy of guardian angels, made its exit to the heavenly... | |
| 1824 - 570 pages
...describes the peaceful departí» e of a saint, ' Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillow are. While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life ou t sweetly there.'" Who can have heard this account without being convinced, that with the righteous... | |
| 1825 - 806 pages
...through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. * Jesus can make a dying bed Feel sufi as downy pillows are. While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there/ " ' I inquired if she could adopt this as the language of her heart, and she answered,... | |
| 1825 - 422 pages
...death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. 'Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as ilowny pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, \ And breathe my life out sweetly there.* " ' I inquired if she could adopt this as the language of her heart, and she answered,... | |
| 1859 - 632 pages
...upon this world to-morrow morning." When I repeated the lines, " Jesus can make a dying bed ï'eel soft as downy pillows are ; While on His breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there," she exclaimed, " Beautiful." And again, when I quoted the verse " There shall I bathe... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1827 - 204 pages
...stretch her wings in haste, Fly fearless thro' Death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd. 1 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows...his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there, HYMN XXXII. (CM) Frailty and folly. 1 HOW short and hasty is 9ur life! How vast our... | |
| Eleazer Sherman - 1828 - 120 pages
...sung * fome verses of n hymn with more than her usual melody. She could say, and feel it too — " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows...his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." The good work of reformation continued for some time; over twenty were baptized in... | |
| 1829 - 414 pages
...afraid of death?" "No." Her teacher repeated shortly after, these lines of Watts. •' Jesus can made a dying bed. Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While...bedside, Ann presented a short petition for her happiness : she spake no more, but in a few hours entered, I doubt not, the mansions of glory, where many of... | |
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