 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill.  The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse - Page 551edited by - 1926 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Wallace Phillips - 1928 - 254 pages
...idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 pages
...saw the Lord?/ Where is the Soul:refreshing View/ Of Jesus in his Word? What peacefull Hours I then enjoyd,/ How sweet their Mem'ry still!/ But they have...that made thee mourn/ And drove thee from my Breast. ... ^ I y* * »y # ""* ""^ V '.t/ ^ / ^ ' *' y %U i ^ *, N Ni V? J ^ o; V V ^x^ s .rt ^ 4^ N > , 3... | |
 | 2006 - 342 pages
...William Cowper catches the shame and the hope of it all in his hymn "O for a closer walk with God": Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? It is not certain that Lot had been with Abraham in Egypt, but he is with him at Bethel. He is now... | |
 | Canterbury Press - 1989 - 540 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! 2 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest;...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 3 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | Paul S. Fiddes - 1989 - 256 pages
...laments in one of his frequent bouts of depression, 'Where is the blessedness I knew?' and pleads: Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest!...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my breast. A further reason for the sense of desertion in suffering is no doubt the failure of expectations that... | |
 | Bertus Frederick Polman, Marilyn Kay Stulken, James Rawlings Sydnor - 1994 - 328 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
 | Bertus Frederick Polman, Marilyn Kay Stulken, James Rawlings Sydnor - 1994 - 328 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - 1995 - 384 pages
...case with me. Oh! for a closer walk with God! for that quiet contented spirit which I once enjoyed. Return, O Holy Dove, return Sweet Messenger of rest,...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. Join your prayers with mine, Bettie, that together we may pass thro life's scenes a mutual support... | |
 | William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - 1995 - 772 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and His Word? Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made Thee mourn And drove... | |
 | William Gadsby - 1995 - 950 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoyed, How sweet their memory still! But now I find an aching void The... | |
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