 | William Cutter Hanscom - 1838 - 226 pages
...alternate dwell ; A brighter, purer scene appears ; Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! Its duty done — as sinks the clay, Light from its load the...spirit flies; While heaven and earth combine to say, Sweet is the scene where virtue dies ! " The funeral was attended at Waltham on the following Friday.... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1840 - 760 pages
...alternate dwell ! How bright the' unchanging morn appears ! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labour done, as sinks the clay, — Light from...combine to say, — How blest the righteous when he dies ! 1084 c. M. T/ie death of a pastor. TO thee, 0 God, when creatures fail, Thy flock, deserted, flies... | |
 | 1847 - 720 pages
...smiles and speaks : his words are, — " AVelcome, joy ! " His spirit has departed : " Life's lahour done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit...combine to say, 'How blest the righteous when he dies !' " Who among us says not, " Let me die the death of that humble, holy men, and let my last end be... | |
 | 1840 - 498 pages
...dwell ! How bright th' unchanging morn appears; Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit...flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, "How bless'd the righteous when he dies !" BarbauM. • 5O9. Flight to Heaven. 8,7. 1 What is life ? 'tis... | |
 | Andrew Preston Peabody - 1840 - 184 pages
...unchanging morn appears ! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell. 5 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Free from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven and...combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies !" 169. The Heavenly Sabbath. LM Hebron. Doddridge. 1 THINE earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love ; But there... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1840 - 290 pages
...alternate dwell ; How bright the unchanging morn appears ! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! Its duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While Heaven and earth combine to say, ' Sweet is the scene, when Virtue dies !' HYMN. PRAISE to God, immortal praise,* For the love that... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...and in the presence of her husband and other friends, without a struggle or a sigh she passed away. " Life's labour done, as sinks the clay, Light from...combine to say, How blest the righteous when he dies. A3 a wife, she was affectionate, considerate, industrious, faithful; as a friend, strong and stable... | |
 | 1868 - 286 pages
...when the Earl of Shaftesbury and others took an active part in the public inauguration. " Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit...combine to say, ' How blest the righteous when he dies' ! " • These three Baptist worthies laboured not merely for themselves and the times in which they... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Life's duty done, as sinks the day, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven...combine to say, How blest the righteous when he dies." Thus died John Turner, on the 2nd of Dec. 1851, aged sixty-three. His mortal remains were interred... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 132 pages
...gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Its duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven and earth combine to say, " Sweet is the scene when virtue dies!" ANOTHER year is swallowed by the sea Of sumless waves ! Another... | |
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How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies ! 
