 | 1835 - 700 pages
...Take, for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. « " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life...pitch my moving tent A day's march -nearer home.' Of this form of illustrating the simplest themes by language and images, at once homely and poetical,... | |
 | 1867 - 810 pages
...adapted in a style excruciating to a sensitive author, is most popular — " For ever with the Lonl, Amen, so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home," &c. And another — " There is a better world, they say, Oh, so bright ! Where sin and woe are done... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...those stars in empty night, But hide themselves in heaven's own light. FOR EVES WITH THE LORD. " FOR ever with the Lord! " Amen! so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word : 'Tis immortality! My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's aspiring eye, Thy golden... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...has supplied a strain in his loftiest mood, in the stanzas entitled ' At Home in Heaven. ' ' " For ever with the Lord! " Amen ; so let it be : Life from...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. ' My Father's house on high ! Home of my soul! how near, At times, to Faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pages
...the lowest hell, Prepares a heavenly house for me, AT HOME IN HEAVEN 1 THESS. iv. 17. PART I. " FOR ever with the Lord ! " — Amen ; so let it be ; Life...immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden... | |
 | 1835 - 572 pages
...Take, for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. ' " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life from the dead is in that word, "Tig immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent... | |
 | 1836 - 368 pages
...the body spent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A diiy's march nearer home. My father's house on high ! Home of my soul ! how near At times to faith's foreseeing eye, The golden gates appear. Ah ! then my spirit faints To reaeh the land of love, The bright inheritance... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1840 - 760 pages
...TjlOREVER with the Lord ! JD Amen, so let it be ! Life from, the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam; Yet...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 Forever with the Lord ! Father, if 'tis thy will, The promise of that faithful word, E'en here to... | |
 | Hymns - 1840 - 464 pages
...And one bless'd song shall rend the skies " The glory, Lord, be Thine !" C. — 6, Q, 8, 6. 1 " FOB ever with the Lord !" Amen, so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer... | |
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Amen— so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word ; 'Tis immortality. Here, in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 
