Catechism of Christian Morals: And Also of Christian Doctrines; Together with Devotional Exercises and Hymns: Adapted to the Use of Families and Sabbath-schools

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Payne & Burgess, 1846 - 72 pages
 

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Page 67 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 67 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 67 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream — nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 34 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
Page 68 - Lord, send a beam of light divine To guide our upward aim! With one reviving touch of thine Our languid hearts inflame.
Page 65 - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song ; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on his name. 4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns ; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains ; The weary find eternal rest ; And all the sons of want are blest.
Page 68 - Name ever dear to me ! When shall my labors have an end, In joy and peace and thee...
Page 69 - Why should I shrink at pain and woe, Or feel at death dismay ? I've Canaan's goodly land in view, And realms of endless day.
Page 66 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and he destroy.
Page 66 - And when like wandering sheep we strayed, He brought us to His fold again. 3 We are His people, we His care, Our souls, and all our mortal frame : What lasting honors shall we rear, Almighty Maker, to Thy Name ? 4 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs ; High...

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