 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful men 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. EVENING. SUN of my soul ! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh ! may no earth-born... | |
 | Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (Hon.) - 1852 - 296 pages
...the votary of fashion. If the mind is as it should be — " The trivial ronnd, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." And in seeking greater things, we often do ourselves more harm than good. How grievous is the remark... | |
 | 1853 - 1644 pages
...and unruffled existence. They do not believe it possible the time will ever come when "The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought...ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." They do not realize that these divine hopes and aspirations alone, have the power to chase away the... | |
 | Elizabeth Prentiss - 1856 - 400 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. Kola TS. OOMFOETAB -S TROUBLED *•*«• CHAPTER! 9 CHAPTER It ^ffi IHOCBLB BE CHAPTER m 20 •'**... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The irivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ;' Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." This view of Christian communion suggests the wisdom and the desirableness of those ordinances and... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1853 - 762 pages
...cannot endure hardness, as good soldiers of JESUS CHBIST. " 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." II. We should, like S. John, cultivate the heavenly principle of love to one another. This is most... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 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 bring us daily nearer God." — KEELE. " All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 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." Would that the "Christian Year"1 had always so sung! That there is no natural nor necessary connection... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 596 pages
...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. 4:54:. lls. M. MONTGOMERY. " The Lord is my Shepherd." 1 THE Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I know... | |
 | Louisa Davids - Hymns, English - 1853 - 132 pages
...gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, near to God. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present comforts, joy, and ease, As Thou shalt... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God. 
