| Barbara H. Farquhar - Christian life - 1849 - 154 pages
...in the following stanza : " The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask j Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." How admirably are brought out, in every part of this Sketch, some of those lessons most profitable... | |
| Christian seasons - 1850 - 462 pages
...of ^useful self-discipline. As our own sweet poet says, " 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. " Seek we no more, — " And be it remembered by all who would make their worldly calling an hindrance... | |
| Barbara H. Farquhar - 1850 - 82 pages
...devout and holy thought expressed in the following stanza : " The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." How admirably are brought out, in every part of this Sketch, some of those lessons most profitable... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 pages
...thought expressed in the following stanza : "The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all wo ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." How admirably are brought out, in every part of this sketch, some of those lessons most profitable... | |
| Garland - 1850 - 152 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 lead us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more, content with these ! Let present rapture, comfort, ease,... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1851 - 638 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. 413. 7s. & 6s. M. COWPKR Joy and Peace in Believing. 1 SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian while... | |
| English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...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. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As Leaven shall bid them,... | |
| Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we need to ask ; — Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As heaven shall bid them,... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1852 - 354 pages
...all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 4 The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought...ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God. 5 Seek we no more : content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As heaven shall bid them,... | |
| Durham city, sch - 1852 - 486 pages
...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. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present Rapture, Comfort, Ease, As heaven shall bid them,... | |
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