 | 1845 - 572 pages
...welcome ' Abbeychurch' as a valuable addition to that increasing class of fictions, which teach how ' The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God.' * The Birthday' is equal, probably, in intention, but certainly inferior in execution, to the two we... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1845 - 168 pages
...to wind ourselves loo high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." And does not this possibility of erecting the mystic ladder, speak to us of the union of earth and... | |
 | 1845 - 450 pages
...hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above ; And help us, this and every day, To... | |
 | George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - 1845 - 448 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Oh could we learn that sacrifice, What lights would all around us rise! How would our hearts with wisdom... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pages
...daily duties. Nevertheless, it is by the cheerful performance of these that God is most glorified. " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...ask ; \ Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us nearer unto God." emotions are in reality nothing more than instincts ; and not having the glory of... | |
 | James Martineau - 1846 - 538 pages
...wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : H The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 15 Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As heaven shall bid them,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1849 - 676 pages
...wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 415. 7s. & 6s. M. Joy and Pence in Believing. \ SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian while he... | |
 | Anna Maria Mead Chalmers - 1846 - 196 pages
....x,-\ •% "">J SKETCHES BY A CHRISTIAN'S WAY-SIDE. CHRISTIAN'S WAY-SIDE. BY MRS. AM MEAD. "The daily round— the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves— a roud To bring us daily nearer God." PHILADELPHIA: H. HOOKER, 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET. Entered according... | |
 | Simple family prayers - 1847 - 168 pages
...heaven in such we see : Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above, And help us this, and every day, To live... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...may leam to be content with that station of life wherein God has placed us, and to remember that " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all...Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, near to God." The life of Bede was happy, because it was (pent entirely in the service of God ; and... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God. 
