 | Book - 1859 - 334 pages
...the skies, For thy pleasure or thy food ; Pour thy soul in gratitude ! Mary Houitt. THE HAPPY CHILD. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...child. I was not born, as thousands are, Where God is never known, And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - Liturgics - 1859 - 284 pages
...parting breath, As conies to me or shade or sun, Father, thy will, not mine, be done ! as. c. M. 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 millions are, 3 My God ! I thank thee, who hast planned... | |
 | Broad Church Movement - 1859 - 248 pages
...let me then my tribute bring, My little offering raise ! 7, c. M. THANKS FOR CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES. 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. I was not born, as millions are, Where God was never tnown, And taught to pray... | |
 | Mary Ann Edmunds, Mary A. Jones Edmunds - Christian literature, Welsh - 1859 - 176 pages
...wedi eu sefydlu. Y mae "llawer yn eynniweirio, a gwybodaeth yn amlhau." PEN. II. Ei HANES BOHEUOL. " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled; And made me in this Christian land A happy English child." — WATTS. YN nhref Caerfyrddin, yn y flwyddyn 1812, priododd... | |
 | mrs. Lucy Wilson - 1860 - 344 pages
...little boy ;" and a glow came across his cheeks as he repeated, with earnestness and feeling, — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...me, in these Christian days, A happy ENGLISH child." The party soon set off for church, and enjoyed their quiet walk down the steep lanes and through the... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1860 - 348 pages
..."I am glad I was born in England, Hester; as the hymn says— ' I thank the poodness and the prace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.'" Hester looked up—" Is that true, Laura, dear ? " " True ? yes, of course it is," replied Laura, with... | |
 | Jane Anne Winscom - Great Britain - 1861 - 466 pages
...very much, but we know best about dear old England ; and don't you like the pretty verse which says, " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these blessed days, A happy English child." Now, look again at the map, and let us find out what it will... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pages
...savages with : their own, and each one of them can hardly fail to adopt the sentiment of the hymn, — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smijed, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child." But let them remember that privileges... | |
 | Juvenile hymn book - Children's songs - 1862 - 266 pages
...seraph's burning tongue ! II.— THANKSGIVING. CM TAYLOB. 19 1 T THANK the goodness and the grace J_ Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. 2 I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer,... | |
 | cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud - Ireland - 1862 - 618 pages
...That on my birth have smiled, And madc me, in those Christian days A happy English child. I was noi born as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless praycr To blocks of wood and s tonc. Quant à l'histoire de l'Église catholique, simplement envisagée... | |
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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. 
