 | Lyman Cobb - Readers (Elementary) - 1843 - 158 pages
...zlndz), n. phi. of Thousand, ten hundred. [use, purpose, or end. READING LESSON XXV. Hymn of Praise. 1. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A free and happy child. 2. I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to... | |
 | Mamma - Christian life - 1843 - 116 pages
...because she gave it with a willing heart. So he blessed her, and made her happy in what she had done. I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A little English child. I was not born as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray... | |
 | 1881 - 396 pages
...sentiment with which Miss Jane Taylor sought to imbue the minds of English children by the words, " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these latter days, A happy English child." So also, in view of the continued ignorance, pride, hardness,... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - Hymns, English - 1844 - 190 pages
...lines record The deeds and precepts of the Lord. 72 Gratitude for the Gospel. CM St. Luke. Medfield. 1 I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A free and happy child. And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone. 3 My God! I... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1870 - 168 pages
...But I should like to hear that hymn you spoke of. Kate. I know it, and will repeat it for you, — I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth...Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born, &c. Eliz. Thank you! Now I should like us to sing it. Will you please begin the tune, Julia? (Sing.)... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...CHIPCHASE. GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL BOOKS. I HAVE just been thinking of those pretty lines in the hymn — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me in these latter days A happy English child ; " and it has struck me very forcibly,... | |
 | Christian education - 1846 - 356 pages
...sure you, and all my fellow scholars will join me in saying : I thank the goodness and the grace. That on my birth have smiled ; And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. A LITTLE BOY'S SPEECH AT A JUVENILE MISSIONARY MEETING. MR. CHAIRMAN AND CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, — I have... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...your favourite hymns comes to your mind, and you say — " I thank the goodness and the grace, That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child." Well, that is right : we ought to be thankful for the goodness of God to us, but we must prove by our... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 918 pages
...which are full of the habitations of cruelty. May each dear reader be enabled devoutly to exclaim, I thank the goodness and the grace' Which on my birth have smiled ; That in this land I pass my days, A happy English child. CAN KRISHNA BE TRULY GOD IF HE ENCOURAGE... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1849
...parrot might do, but ilways liked to know the exact meaning of it. Having been taught the hymn, — " I thank the goodness and the grace "Which on my birth have smil'd," &c., lie asked to have it explained all through to lilm, which was done in as simple words... | |
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I thank the good-ness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Chris-tian days, A hap-py Eng-lish child. 
