 | 1842 - 284 pages
...again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.' " She then cried out, " ' There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home.' I wish father, mother, sisters, brothers, and all the world, were converted to God : I should like... | |
 | John George Breay - 1841 - 572 pages
...towards it let all your steps be bent : say ' Here I have no continuing city, but I seek one to come.' ' There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home." " These are duties of commanding importance, and of considerable difficulty. You know not the various... | |
 | 1868 - 286 pages
...seemed to be in full sight, whilst her countenance beamed with holy joy. Pointing upwards she said — " There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home." She lost her voice a few days before her departure, so that it was with difficulty she could be heard.... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...this gloriously sufficient. Often did he say, both when in health, and during his illness, "Yonder is my house and portion fair; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home,"_&c. From the beginning of his affliction, he had a presentiment that he should not recover,... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pages
...bounds of time, and looking up to heaven, in humble dependence upon a crucified Redeemer, can say, " There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart is there, And my abiding home." For such as by faith are united to Christ, by whose blood they are... | |
 | Joseph Holdich - 1842 - 488 pages
...goods despise ; I trample on their whole delight, And seek a city out of sight, A city in the skies. . There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and...And angels beckon me away, And Jesus bids me come.' " Had I seen you when your heart was bleeding under the recent stroke that severed the tenderest ties... | |
 | 1843 - 404 pages
...painful struggle; and the fiist words she uttered, were a recital of the beautiful verse — "Yonder'e my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there And my abiding heme ; For me my elder brethren stay, And aneeis beckon me awity, And Jesus bids me come." The longest... | |
 | Edward Otheman - 1843 - 288 pages
...the chiefest among ten thousand,' the one ' altogether lovely.' There are endless joys, there is my portion fair, ' My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home.' Now I take no glory to myself; all the glory belongs to God. I would ever feel like a little child.... | |
 | Thoughts - 1843 - 168 pages
...depart. Then I was instructed, and smote upon my thigh : and as I went on I heard him singing : — " There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and...And angels beckon me away. And Jesus bids me come! " This man was as the Laurustinus : and this is only one of the circumstances to which the comparison... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...heaven, in common with the children of God. ' There is my house and portion fair; My treasure and iny heart are there, And my abiding home ; For me my elder brethren stay, And angels beckon me a\vay, And Jesus bids me come.' " Hnmanitas paused, and while I was inly musing on his happy frame... | |
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There is my house and portion fair, My treasure, and my heart are there, And my abiding home ; For me my elder brethren stay, And angels becko'n me away, And Jesus bids me come... 
