 | Gardner BALDWIN - 1833 - 248 pages
...error's chain ! 2 What though the spicy breezes In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Can we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Can we to souls benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - 1834 - 760 pages
...to deliver Their land from error's chain. p 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man...high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? s Salvation ! O Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, Till earth's remotest nation Has learned Messiah's... | |
 | Thomas Russell - 1834 - 612 pages
...us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man...from on high, Shall we, to men benighted, The lamp of light deny? Salvation! O salvation! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learnt... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1834 - 472 pages
...us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man...wood and stone 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Salvation! O salvation! The... | |
 | Lowell Mason - 1834 - 582 pages
...deliver Their land from error's chain. pi I 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man...wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high — Shall we to man benighted The lamp of life deny? — t Salvation ! — oh,... | |
 | 1834 - 320 pages
...us to deliver Their land from error's cham. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man...wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high — Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?— . Salvation ! — oh,... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 1924 - 396 pages
...us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted... | |
 | Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 236 pages
...Mountains," and includes the following verse: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.69 While use of the word "heathen"... | |
 | Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 236 pages
...Mountains," and includes the following verse: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is...vile. In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God arc strewn. The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.49 While use of the word "heathen"... | |
 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith - 1991 - 360 pages
...Conference Office, 1904, number 770, runs as follows: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. The hymn had extremely wide use in the English-speaking Protestant church for a time. Later, however,... | |
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What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone... 
